this is bbc news. i'm annita mcveigh. the headlines at ten the metropolitan police recommends 20 fines should initially be issued over downing street parties that breached coronavirus lockdown rules — but it says it won't be naming the individuals involved. face to face talks to try to end the war in ukraine resume in istanbul. turkey's president erdogan says the meeting must yield results. translation: it will be i to the benefit of everybody to achieve a ceasefire and establish peace as soon as possible. a thanksgiving service to honour prince philip's life will take place later this morning — buckingham palace says the queen is currently intending to go. unacceptable and inexcusable — hollywood star will smith says sorry to comedian chris rock for slapping him at the oscars.

the metropolitan police is recommending that 20 initial fixed penalty notices are issued for breaches of covid—19 regulations in the wake of downing street parties. it's the first confirmation from the force that rules were broken. the force says it won't be naming the individuals or confirming which events the fines relate to. the met has examined a dozen events which took place during the pandemic — including some attended by the prime minister. in the last hour, the metropolitian police has issued a statment saying:

"the investigation into allegations of breaches of covid—19 regulations in whitehall and downing street has now progressed to the point where the first referrals for fixed penalty notices will be made to acro criminal records office. we are making every effort to progress this investigation at speed and have completed a number of assessments. however due to the significant amount of investigative material that remains to be assessed, further referrals may be made to acro if the evidential threshold is made. as it has for all fixed penalty notices issued during the pandemic, we will not confirm the number of referrals from each individual event subject to our investigation as providing a breakdown at this point may lead to identification of the individuals. joining me now from westminster is our chief political correspondent adam fleming. he has been gauging initial

reaction. confirmation from the metropolitan police first and foremost that rules were broken? until now we had had public outrage at reports and pictures and claims of events, then the investigation into this by senior civil servant sue grey who was tasked with looking into it and because of the police investigation she could only come up with general interim findings. —— sue gray. if the law was broken, that was a matter for the police. the police have decided that in 20 instances laws about covid, lockdowns etc were broken in the buildings in which the laws were written. that could include the same person who attended multiple events, not necessarily to people. this is the beginning of the engine of the

legal process because it still processing lots of evidence, sue gray had 500 pages of evidence and 300 voters, they are looking to see what will be going on, this is hanging over the political class, the establishment etc. the police intend to issue these fixed penalty notices, this is passed to a body which manages a criminal record system called acro which gets in touch with the individuals and it all happens by post, the individuals may have to wait for a couple of days until the final lands on the doormat. �* , ., ., doormat. and before the war in ukraine, doormat. and before the war in ukraine. the — doormat. and before the war in ukraine, the story _ doormat. and before the war in ukraine, the story around - doormat. and before the war in - ukraine, the story around partygate as it remains to be known as

grabbing the lion's share of the headlines are most days. if we think back to when claims about parties were first made, the response from downing street was that nothing had happened and if it had, guidance was followed, so how problematic is this for borisjohnson right now? ibellman for boris johnson right now? when the story was _ for boris johnson right now? when the story was building _ for boris johnson right now? when the story was building and - for borisjohnson right now? wie�*i the story was building and building and building, also building was the number of conservative and p sending letters to the chair of the 1922 committee of backbench mps calling for that to be a vote of confidence a borisjohnson�*s leadership —— was the number of conservative and peace. it never got to sa letters, which would trigger the vote, but it was very publicly increasing. since the invasion of ukraine by russia, some of those mps who had gone public about the fact they had sent letters say they have withdrawn their letters because it did not feel appropriate when the prime minister was grappling with an international crisis. that has

happened, but equally you still speak to backbench tory mps who say the context has changed but the charge that people who make the rules and other people suffered under, those people that broke the rules, it still carries so much weight that it does not really matter to them what the international context is, some mps are still ready to try to push boris johnson out but i have to say that i think the bulk of opinion on the conservative backbenches is among people still waiting for the final details before they reach a judgment, they are waiting to find out if the prime minister is one of the people who gets a fixed penalty notice. you may not be in this first tranche of notices, he may be in a later search or he may never get one. sue gray, the civil servant, will be able to publish a final report with all the details, that the bulk of conservative party opinion will come to a judgment about what to do about the prime

minister. this is really the beginning of the end, potentially quite a long way for partygate to go. quite a long way for partygate to co. ., . ., , quite a long way for partygate to co. .,. ., , ., go. police not identifying anyone bein: go. police not identifying anyone being fined. _ go. police not identifying anyone being fined, indeed _ go. police not identifying anyone being fined, indeed they - go. police not identifying anyone being fined, indeed they say - go. police not identifying anyone| being fined, indeed they say they will not confirm the number of referrals from each individual event in case at any point this may lead to identification of individuals, but are we nonetheless likely to find out whether there will be pressure on those involved, whether they are politicians, senior civil servants, political advisers to stand up and say, i am one of those who has been fined. the government does not have — who has been fined. the government does not have a _ who has been fined. the government does not have a policy _ who has been fined. the government does not have a policy of— who has been fined. the government does not have a policy of naming - does not have a policy of naming employees or people involved in those who have been fined, there will not be an official notice from cabinet office or whatever saying these people got fixed penalty notices, so forget about that idea. but we have a public pledge from the prime minister but he will let it be known if he has received a fixed

penalty notice, but that is basically it, the rest will be a matter for the high—profile individuals named, and think about people whose names are in the public domain about being sent a questionnaire by the police, chancellor rishi sunak, the cabinet secretary, the most senior civil servant in the country, simon case. they will come under immense pressure to say whether they have received fixed penalty notices. then you will think about senior civil servants who are not well—known public figures but have accountability for the system created, you could argue they would have a public duty to say they have been found to have breached the laws they had a hand in creating and enforcing. further down the ranks you think aboutjunior civil you think about junior civil servants you think aboutjunior civil servants involved, did not have a great amount of responsibility, are not paid very much, are not public figures, will they be named? and i think the cabinet office is quite concerned about the people who do not have a public profile and there is a unit in place to look after

them as they faces potentially write stressful public onslaught. and just to prepare them for the fact this could be a long haul because we don't know when the police will say this investigation is drawn to a close. . ~' , ., this investigation is drawn to a close. . ~ ., close. thank you, adam fleming in westminster- _ peace talks between delegations from ukraine and russia are under way in turkey, with the ukrainian side pushing for a ceasefire. it's the first meeting between the two sides in two weeks, but hopes of a breakthrough at the negotiations in istanbul remain low. let's get all the latest from ukraine — my colleague ben brown is in lviv for us. ben? we are live in lviv in western ukraine. peace _ ben? we are live in lviv in western ukraine. peace talks _ ben? we are live in lviv in western ukraine. peace talks have - ben? we are live in lviv in western ukraine. peace talks have now- ben? we are live in lviv in western ukraine. peace talks have now got| ukraine. peace talks have now got under way in istanbul between ukrainian and russian delegations, the billionaire robe and abramovich is one of the mediators —— the billionaire roman abramovich. there were reports yesterday he had suffered symptoms of suspected

poisoning at a previous round of peace talks on the ukraine belarus border earlier this month. the very people in ukraine are optimistic that these negotiations will be successful or by any fruit, the view is putinism not ready to sue for peace or a ceasefire, he has not yet seized enough territory. lodging is ski may have made offers on these peace talks such as the future neutrality of that country —— zelensky may have made offers. it is that you hear that pressure is set on establishing a minimum of a land corridor in the south between the crimea and donbas in the east. ukraine fears that moscow ultimately wants a territory here. tomos morgan

reports. a safe landing, hoping to secure a safer future. ukrainian delegates arriving in istanbul, gearing up for the latest round of peace talks, the first face—to—face in weeks. a ceasefire is their aim, although there is significant doubt over whether this is likely. translation: the minimum programme is first of all - humanitarian questions. and the maximum programme is ceasefire and reaching a lasting agreement on it. the last time negotiations were held, there was no compromise. there is also another cause for concern. three of those involved in early discussions, which included russian billionaire roman abramovich, say they suffered suspected poisoning, a potentially lethal and serious claim. these people appeared to have been poisoned with something pretty severe. the only other sort of place where organic phosphates would come from would be pesticides, and that seems unrealistic in this scenario. until we have detailed medical records, one has to assume they have

been poisoned and possibly with a nerve agent. in kyiv, some normality ensues. some cafes have reopened, some pause in the fight. in the strategic port town of mariupol, near the border with the enemy, there is no such break. bombing has show no sign of letting up, it's a city in ruin. according to president zelensky, the scene of a war crime. along the black sea near the city of odesa in the south—west and there are signs that local troops are overcoming their foe, as russian tanks lie in ruin. this has led to resistance in nearby kherson, a city currently held by putin's forces. russia will unlikely back down before they have finished taking the east of ukraine.

so a month into this conflict, there is hope that scepticism that this latest round of talks will lead to any resolution or respite in this war. tomos morgan, bbc news. with us live from new broadcasting house in london is the ukraine ambassdor to the uk vadym prystaiko to talk about the war one month on. thank you for being with us, what hope is to you have that these talks in istanbul could be successful? this is not the first round of these negotiations but the intensity of these negotiations on the topic they are discussing is increasing every time. i understand russians now have to come to the table because our military is putting up such a fight and our population has resisted russian aggression, so i have hopes that this time we will have something out of these negotiations in turkey. something out of these negotiations

in turke . ~ . , , in turkey. what is the helper initiall , in turkey. what is the helper initially, that _ in turkey. what is the helper initially, that there _ in turkey. what is the helper initially, that there is - in turkey. what is the helper initially, that there is a - in turkey. what is the helper - initially, that there is a temporary ceasefire before the delegates get on to talking about a longer lasting peace? —— what is the hope initially? peace? -- what is the hope initially?— peace? -- what is the hope initiall ? ~ ., ., . ., initially? we want to ceasefire and for humanitarian _ initially? we want to ceasefire and for humanitarian corridors - initially? we want to ceasefire and for humanitarian corridors to - initially? we want to ceasefire and for humanitarian corridors to be i for humanitarian corridors to be open to be available to evacuate civilians and bring food and supplies to besiege cities like mariupol. unfortunately the russians wanted to use it to the advantage to bend the will of our delegations, to show weak points and impress on them. so we have to discuss how they will get out of our sovereign territory and how our future system of architecture and security will be built. �* , ., of architecture and security will be built. �* , . . built. but there is a view, which i mentioned _ built. but there is a view, which i mentioned at _ built. but there is a view, which i mentioned at the _ built. but there is a view, which i mentioned at the beginning - built. but there is a view, which i mentioned at the beginning of i built. but there is a view, which i l mentioned at the beginning of the programme, the president putinism not ready for a peace deal because he has not yet got enough territory, he has not yet got enough territory, he still wants to secure that to land corridor between crimea and

donbas, that is his minimum aim and until he gets that at least he will not really properly sue for peace? i agree, this is one of the speculations we have, we do not know what is in his head. we also know that recently they have changed the narrative, they have completed the first phase of the special operation, they call it, this war. they mentioned they will have to secure the donetsk republics in their security, so they are changing probably because they can't get everything they want, they can't get the bigger cities, they cannot get kyiv, kharkiv or anything in the centre of ukraine. they may not be able to, but the

fear is that the country will be partitioned between a russian east, donbas, crimea, perhaps marry a pull in russian hands, and then the rest of ukraine, in other words and east and west and your own country's head of defence intelligence has spoken about the korea and to all of this. it's that how you see this? this about the korea and to all of this. it's that how you see this?- it's that how you see this? this is a very fortunate _ it's that how you see this? this is a very fortunate -- _ it's that how you see this? this is a very fortunate -- this _ it's that how you see this? this is a very fortunate -- this is - it's that how you see this? this is a very fortunate -- this is very i a very fortunate —— this is very unfortunate. but it is not the first time they are doing it, there were historically attempts, it is not the first time, so i believe with the assistance of the west, that is where we have to put our hope. we are fighting and at the same time expecting our partners will be able to help with efforts, both by sanctions against russia and assisting the ukraine militarily and financially so we will be able to fight and create such a position at the negotiation table which will allow it to survive as an

independent nation with our own view of how we have to develop, what our main direction of our nation is, which is a western democratic way of development at the moment. ambassador, at these talks we mentioned it earlier, is roman abramovich and an extraordinary story that he may have been poisoned at an earlier round of police negotiations. i at an earlier round of police negotiations.— at an earlier round of police negotiations. at an earlier round of police neuotiations. ., ., ., ., ~ negotiations. i have no idea what mr abramovich — negotiations. i have no idea what mr abramovich is _ negotiations. i have no idea what mr abramovich is claiming _ negotiations. i have no idea what mr abramovich is claiming or— negotiations. i have no idea what mr abramovich is claiming or doing, i negotiations. i have no idea what mr abramovich is claiming or doing, it l abramovich is claiming or doing, it is not a part of the negotiation team, you could not see him up a table of today's negotiations in turkey, i don't refuse buying his way out or if he is really useful, it is very difficult to tell —— i don't know if he is buying his way out. there are many stories, the story about poisoning is in the air, but there are people part of the same team who he claims were also

poisoned who were told today they were not. barrel minor signs of irritation, i believe if the russians wanted to poison people, those people would be dead, as they were here in salisbury. can i those people would be dead, as they were here in salisbury.— were here in salisbury. can i ask about the _ were here in salisbury. can i ask about the battlefield, _ were here in salisbury. can i ask about the battlefield, we - were here in salisbury. can i ask about the battlefield, we have i were here in salisbury. can i ask- about the battlefield, we have heard about the battlefield, we have heard about ukrainian successes, especially the other capital, kyiv, but we're also hearing that the russians are trying to encircle your troops in the east. what is your reading of the latest military situation?— situation? they are trying to develop our _ situation? they are trying to develop our forces - situation? they are trying to develop our forces in - situation? they are trying to develop our forces in the i situation? they are trying to l develop our forces in the east because this is the biggest and strongest group of forces fighting for eight years with separatists on the east, they are battle hardened and very difficult to deal with. the ukrainians generally are much better at defending. some of these lines were used against the nazis in the 19405, were used against the nazis in the 1940s, this party is very difficult to take over so that is why they

came from the south, using the advantage of their fleet which after crimea was not from our hands, we don't even have a fleet to put up a resistance. we have some advantages, our forces resistance. we have some advantages, ourforces made resistance. we have some advantages, our forces made a resistance. we have some advantages, ourforces made a couple resistance. we have some advantages, our forces made a couple of counterattacks. we see them bringing in people from syria, bringing in private military companies, they are going around the world trying to fight with us. we are careful but quite happy to see our forces are starting these counterattacks. ambassador, thank you so much as everfor your time, ambassador, thank you so much as everforyourtime, ukrainian ever for your time, ukrainian ambassador to london, everforyourtime, ukrainian ambassador to london, vadym prystaiko, many thanks for being with us on bbc news. let's talk to two of our correspondents, jenny hill in moscow and tom bateman covering those talks in istanbul. tom, what is the latest from the

talks? we know they are under way but this is just the latest round of talks going on for several weeks, they have resumed under turkish sample? —— a turkish auspices in istanbul. sample? -- a turkish auspices in istanbul. ., ., , ., istanbul. the delegations, after lininu istanbul. the delegations, after linin: u- istanbul. the delegations, after lining up face-to-face - istanbul. the delegations, after lining up face-to-face across i istanbul. the delegations, after| lining up face-to-face across the lining up face—to—face across the table, have begun talking within the last hour. previously the two key presidential advisers to mr zelensky and mr putin had a private meeting one—on—one, now it is the full talks themselves, but as you hinted, we have been here before in turkey, two and a half weeks ago a higher level of delegates were in antalya in the south, was the russian and ukrainian foreign ministers. those talks broke up foreign ministers. those talks broke up after about 90 minutes with no outcome at all, no recriminations

and a pretty irritable press conference from sergei lavrov, the russian foreign minister, at least. that has put a lead on expectations despite the fact that president erdogan is hosting these talks, he spoke to the two delegations before they began, to their applause, talked about an historic duty to try to reach some kind of agreement, he has spoken about a ceasefire to vladimir putin, i think that it's a lofty expectation that many simply do not share, at least from this round of talks. we have had the foreign minister saying in the last couple of hours that he expects and hopes they can be some address at the humanitarian issues but it seems not much more than that. girl fights i gather the foreign minister you just mentioned has also been saying that delegates should not eat and drink at those talks following the

reports that roman abramovich may have been poisoned at an earlier round of peace talks? you round of peace talks? reporter: you 'ust heard round of peace talks? reporter: you just heard from _ round of peace talks? reporter: you just heard from the _ round of peace talks? reporter: you just heard from the ukrainian - just heard from the ukrainian ambassador to london about the report yesterday from the bellingcat investigative website suggesting mr abramovich and two of ukrainian delegates may have suffered the symptoms of poisoning earlier this month after a meeting in kyiv, a fair bit of doubt to being cast on that by an american official and to some extent ukrainian president's office, one of the delegates reportedly said the story was false, but the foreign minister said in an interview to the ukrainian media that anyone negotiating with russia should not eat or drink anything or touch surfaces. he suggested this was probably some kind of rumour and everyone at the moment was looking for what he described as a sensational story, so a bit of salt being thrown on this from various

quarters but mr abramovich is in the room, but is supporting these claims that he has been quite actively involved in the mediation over the course of the last few weeks, he is with president erdogan's spokesman who has been instrumental in coordinating some of the contact between the two sides. tam coordinating some of the contact between the two sides. tom bateman at the talks in — between the two sides. tom bateman at the talks in istanbul, _ between the two sides. tom bateman at the talks in istanbul, talking i between the two sides. tom bateman at the talks in istanbul, talking to i at the talks in istanbul, talking to my colleague ben brown in lviv. buckingham palace says the queen currently intends to go to a service of thanksgiving for the life of the duke of edinburgh this morning — there had been speculation her health would keep her away. senior royals and representatives of the duke's charities will be in the congregation at westminster abbey. it's the first public event, outside of her own residences, which would be attended by the 95—year—old monarch this year. the service is due to start at 11:30 this morning. let's speak to our royal correspondent daniela relph, who's outside the abbey.

currently intending to be there, we are told. i guess this allows for any last—minute difficulties the queen might encounter but i am sure she will be determined be there? the she will be determined be there? tue: language is she will be determined be there? ti2 language is careful from buckingham language is carefulfrom buckingham palace, saying it is believed the queen will be here, she intends to be here, it gives a tiny bit of room for manoeuvre but we have to presume at this stage that we will see the queen in westminster abbey at 11:30am for the start of the thanksgiving service for her husband of 73 years, the duke of edinburgh. at what has been going on behind—the—scenes to make this happen is everything has been put in place to try to make this as comfortable for the queen as possible. we know she has had mobility issues, she has not been able to move around very well at all so the journey from windsor castle to hear will have been looked at to make it as comfortable as possible. she is likely to go into westminster

abbey through the poets corner entrance, it is slightly out of sight of the cameras, where the walk from the main door to her seat is the shortest walk possible for her to do, again, making it easy for her to do, again, making it easy for her to access westminster abbey. the service itself is only about 45 minutes long, again making it as comfortable as possible for the queen to sit through, but she will be determined to be at this event with the rest of her family and as things stand we will see her later. daniela relph, thank you very much. joining me now is katie nicholl, royal correspondent at vanity fair magazine. nice to see you, katie. i can't help but think this morning about that image of the queen sitting by herself at prince philip's funeral following the covid rules of the time and think that she must absolutely want to be at westminster abbey today surrounded by her

family, to remember him? this abbey today surrounded by her family, to remember him? as you say, surrounded by — family, to remember him? as you say, surrounded by her _ family, to remember him? as you say, surrounded by her family _ family, to remember him? as you say, surrounded by her family and - family, to remember him? as you say, surrounded by her family and friends . surrounded by her family and friends and other members of the european royalfamilies who will and other members of the european royal families who will all be at their servers today, a service that perhaps was what we would have expected for the duke's official funeral but that'll change with covid, there were just 30 guests at the congregation and i think you are right, the image of the queen dressed in black, masked, sitting on that pew at st george's chapel on her own is an image that will stay with us and this will hopefully be a much happier but i think equally emotional and important moment for the family. we have not seen the queen at an official engagement in public thus far this year and has daniela just said, everything is in place to make this as comfortable as possible but she will be very aware of the cameras on her, but ijust

think this was unmissable for her. she wanted the duke to have the proper sendoff he was not able to have in april and we understand all of the family will be there, many guests have travelled internationally to be here too as well as representatives from some of the duke's page on edge and charities, not everyone from every one of the 700 organisations will be there but there will be some, so this feels like the proper farewell the duke should have had but was not able to back in april. iloathed the duke should have had but was not able to back in april.— able to back in april. what do you make of the _ able to back in april. what do you make of the very _ able to back in april. what do you make of the very brief _ able to back in april. what do you make of the very brief statement | make of the very brief statement from buckingham palace saying the queen is currently intending to be at the service? i queen is currently intending to be at the service?— at the service? i think it is very difficult for _ at the service? i think it is very difficult for the _ at the service? i think it is very difficult for the palace - at the service? i think it is very difficult for the palace at i at the service? i think it is very difficult for the palace at the i difficult for the palace at the moment and we all had to report with a degree of speculation because we are talking about a woman about to approach her 96th birthday, just weeks away, we know she has had a speu weeks away, we know she has had a spell of poor health answer morning she wakes up and feels totally able and it's totally able to do things,

other mornings, as she had said, she just can't they probably made moved heaven and earth —— moved heaven and earth to make sure she could be here today, hopefully she will see many people she has not seen for many months. when you look at the list of european royals, the king and queen of belgium, king and queen of denmark, the netherlands, spain, this is a big gathering of extended family members and friends she has not seen for a very long time. notably the sussexes will not be there, notably prince andrew, we are told, will be attending.— told, will be attending. controversy on both of those, _ told, will be attending. controversy on both of those, lots _ told, will be attending. controversy on both of those, lots of— told, will be attending. controversy on both of those, lots of people i on both of those, lots of people wondering why prince harry is able to come overfor wondering why prince harry is able to come over for the opening of the invictus games in the netherlands in a couple of weeks but is not here for a service of thanksgiving for his beloved grandfather, when he came over for the funeral, of course. that has certainly raised

eyebrows, and let's not forget he has not seen the queen since last april. in the presence of the duke of york, who we understand will be there. there is speculation that the queen will be travelling with the duke of york, we do not know that yet, he will certainly be there and again that causes some controversy, but i think we have to remember this is essentially a family event, an official service of thanksgiving but a family event and prince andrew will be there.— a family event and prince andrew will be there. thank you for talking to us, will be there. thank you for talking to us. katie — will be there. thank you for talking to us, katie nicholl, _ will be there. thank you for talking to us, katie nicholl, royal- to us, katie nicholl, royal corresponded with vanity fair. let's go back to the news that the metropolitan police is recommending that 20 initial fixed penalty notices are issued for breaches of covid—19 regulations in the wake of downing street parties. it's the first confirmation from the force that rules were broken. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford is here. morning, daniel. a sense even though

we are hearing that the first 20 fines are being issued from the police that this process still has a way to run?— police that this process still has a wa to run? . ~ , ., way to run? taking things in order, it is 20 fines, _ way to run? taking things in order, it is 20 fines, we _ way to run? taking things in order, it is 20 fines, we don't _ way to run? taking things in order, it is 20 fines, we don't necessarilyl it is 20 fines, we don't necessarily know that its 20 people, it is possible there are people who have been issued more than one fine and the police have been careful with the police have been careful with the language and reiterated what we are talking about is 20 fines, it could be 20 people, it could be fewer. it is the police's official decision that on those 20 occasions, presumably many at the same time, the law has been broken, regulations were broken either in downing street or the cabinet office, it is the first time there has been an official ruling by the police that those 20 people, under 20 occasions, the regulations were broken and they are very clear in saying that they

are very clear in saying that they are going through the material and there could be more fixed penalty notices in the future. the process of issuing a fixed penalty notice, and who would have thought we would have ever cared about this... it is the minutiae _ have ever cared about this. .. it is the minutiae of— have ever cared about this... it is the minutiae of fixed penalty notices. ,., . the minutiae of fixed penalty notices. . ., ., ,, notices. the police do not issue boat and it _ notices. the police do not issue boat and it pops _ notices. the police do not issue boat and it pops up _ notices. the police do not issue boat and it pops up minutes i notices. the police do not issue i boat and it pops up minutes later in an inbox, it is a piece of paper thatis an inbox, it is a piece of paper that is posted out so i do not know when people will receive these, it may be a couple of dates. find when people will receive these, it may be a couple of dates. and the ruestion may be a couple of dates. and the question of— may be a couple of dates. and the question of who _ may be a couple of dates. and the question of who those _ may be a couple of dates. and the question of who those people i may be a couple of dates. and the question of who those people are, downing street... i beg your pardon, the met staying in its statement on downing street they will not confirm the number of referrals from each individual event as providing a breakdown at this point may lead to identification of individuals. it's that power for the cause? the met in these or any other police forces in

these or any other police forces in these instances would not identify individuals issued fines? otherwise that won't become public, these fit into that category, so you will never get the police publishing a list of people who have been given fixed penalty notice, the prime minister has of course said if he gets given one he will tell us. 0k, gets given one he will tell us. ok, we wait to see what the political consequences are of this police decision, thank you very much. daniel sandford. daniel sandford. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt. hello. it will still feel quite pleasant across some western areas today where you have the sunshine, but a few more showers breaking out

as we go into the afternoon between the sunnier moments, northern ireland, southern scotland, northern england and wales. a lot of cloud across southern, eastern and northern areas though. to the south a few showers, a bit of drizzle in the low cloud through eastern coasts, and to northern scotland, well, the rain turning to sleet and snow as colder air pushes in. single figure temperatures here, temperatures close to normal for this stage in march elsewhere. the colder air is on the march southwards, outbreaks of rain turning to sleet and snow as we go through the night into the morning. widespread frost in scotland — minus five in some of the highlands. could be a little bit of morning sunshine in southern parts to begin with, but clouding here over here to outbreaks of rain, and that is the weather front which will bring the colder air gradually further southwards into wales, the midlands later in the day. sleet and snow across parts of northern england. most of the showers in northern scotland with a bit of sunshine in between, but note the temperature — mid single figures for many by this stage, feeling colder in the wind, and colder still into thursday, with a bit of sleet and snow in places and the chilly weather lasts into the weekend.

this is bbc news. a summary of the headlines for you no. the metropolitan police recommends 20 fines should initially be issued over downing street parties that breached coronavirus lockdown rules, but it says it won't be naming the individuals involved. face to face talks to try to end the war in ukraine resume in istanbul. turkey's president erdogan says the meeting must yield results. a thanksgiving service to honour prince philip's life will take place later this morning. buckingham palace says the queen is currently intending to go. p&o ferries has written a letter to the government saying it's unable to rehire the 800 workers it sacked as this would cause the compa ny�*s collapse. p&o ferries chief executive peter hebblethwaite was responding to a letter from the transport secretary, grant shapps in which he demanded the company reverse its decision.

let's talk to our business correspondent, katy austin. tell us more, the government has been clear in its communications with post it needs to undo what it did, namely, sack 800 people, without consultation, which post has accepted was breaking the law. yes. accepted was breaking the law. yes, this is becoming _ accepted was breaking the law. yes, this is becoming a _ accepted was breaking the law. yes, this is becoming a war _ accepted was breaking the law. 123 this is becoming a war of words between the boss of p&o ferries peter hebblethwaite and the transport secretary, so grant shapps's letter pointed out that changes in the law were being planned that would mean any ferry operators working in an out of uk ports would have to pay seafarers the uk minimum wage, he said p&o ferries should reverse the ethe decision is because they would have to pay the rates any way so they might as well reinstate those seafarers on their previous term, wages and condition, today, peter hebblethwaite said doing that would

in his words deliberately cause the company's collapse, resulting he said in the loss of an additional 2,000 -- 2200job, said in the loss of an additional 2,000 —— 2200job, peter hebblethwaite said this was a difficult decision to do what they did. he said any other option would have resulted in the company collapsing, so, again, it doesn't look like the position of p&o ferries has changed at all and while there is government ministers and there is government ministers and the opposition as well continue to criticise what p&o ferries has done, the course of action doesn't seem to be changing. fight! the course of action doesn't seem to be changing-— be changing. and unions and indeed individuals who _ be changing. and unions and indeed individuals who were _ be changing. and unions and indeed individuals who were sacked - be changing. and unions and indeed individuals who were sacked may i be changing. and unions and indeed l individuals who were sacked may well be pursuing legal action, so the story has to run and run on this. and issues with another p&o ferries today as well. and issues with another p&o ferries today as well-— today as well. that is right. so the pride of kent _ today as well. that is right. so the pride of kent which _ today as well. that is right. so the pride of kent which has _ today as well. that is right. so the pride of kent which has been i today as well. that is right. so the pride of kent which has been in i pride of kent which has been in dover, that was inspected by the maritime and coastguard agency yesterday with a view to ill sailing

without passenger or cargo but it appears that inspection failed, so that ship is being detained by the maritime and coastguard agency. it is not the first time it has happened, it is unusual but the european causeway, another of p&o ferries's ships was detained on friday after failing an inspection, these inspections are checking that these inspections are checking that the vessel can operate safely, emergency procedures can be followed, that sort of thing so at the moment the two ships are detained until they can be reap spectrumed and pass to make sure they are safe to go sea again, but there were eight ships in total to be inspected for them to enter back into service, so where we are now it looks unlikely that they will be will be getting back in to service soon. d0 will be getting back in to service soon. y ., will be getting back in to service soon. ,, ~

will be getting back in to service soon. i. ~ . soon. do you think when post decided to sack the 800 _ soon. do you think when post decided to sack the 800 workers _ soon. do you think when post decided to sack the 800 workers without i to sack the 800 workers without consultation they had any idea of what would unfold and the process, the response, sorry to this would be, because on the face of it it has been disastrous for them, reputationally certainly. find been disastrous for them, reputationally certainly. and peter hebblethwaite _ reputationally certainly. and peter hebblethwaite acknowledges i reputationally certainly. and peter hebblethwaite acknowledges in i reputationally certainly. and peter| hebblethwaite acknowledges in the letter he said today, the reputation of the company has suffered and his personal reputation as well, i remember hearing him, that extraordinary select committee meeting, where he kind of said, it is a bit of a surprise how big the reaction has been but in the letter today, i think, reaction has been but in the letter today, ithink, to reaction has been but in the letter today, i think, to paraphrase, reaction has been but in the letter today, ithink, to paraphrase, he was saying, you know, we realise this would be potentially controversial, expected some degree of criticism but insisting that they say this was the only option other than the company collapsing. katie, thank ou than the company collapsing. katie, thank you for— than the company collapsing. katie, thank you for that. _ than the company collapsing. katie, thank you for that. our _ than the company collapsing. katie, thank you for that. our business i thank you for that. our business correspondent there. time for for sport now.

good morning. it's a big night of international football coming up, with all of the home nations involved in internationalfriendlies this evening. england are up against ivory coast at wembley, the first non—european country that gareth southgate's side have faced since november 2018, when they were comfortable winners over the usa. defender tyrone mings is relishing the challenge. iam i am really excited by it. it will be a different test, there are a number of player we would have played against individually in terms of playing against them at club level but international games are still things i am learning and this will be another test for me, another challenge to overcome, and, for sure, i am looking forward to getting out and testing myself against a different style of opposition, different ways of playing. and, yeah i think it will be a good battle and, yeah i think it will be a good battle northern ireland play hungary in belfast. elsewhere, scotland could have

been playing for a spot at the world cup later. instead they're facing austria in a friendly, with their world cup play—off semi final with ukraine pushed back because of the conflict. so, for steve clarkes side, a chance to prepare for the bigger challenges ahead.. it doesn't have much riding on it, except that you're playing for your country and you want to win. we want to continue the run that we're on, and obviously the key games are still in front of us. the competitive matches injune are going to be massive for the country and everybody wants to be involved, which is great. wales have one of those game to prepare for. that play—off final after beating austria. wales take on the czech republic in a friendly. the likes of gareth bale and aaron ramsey are expected to be rested. goalkeeper wayne hennessey will captain the side as he wins his 100th cap. my hero growing up was neville southall. i know nev reached 92, and i absolutely adore nev. i thought he was one

of the best goalkeepers in the world at the time. but for myself, a massive achievement for myself and my family. a lot of hard work, ups and downs, injuries. so, yeah, for me, it's going to be a huge occasion and i can't wait. north macedonia have been making big waves in international football. they shocked european champions italy a few days ago, to put them within 90 minutes of the world cup. only established as a country in 1991, they've been on a brilliantjourney, knocking out the european champions, a team ranked 61 places above them. signs have been there — beating germany last year, they qualified for the euros as well, their first major tournament, and now it's portugal, another top ten side, standing between them and a place at their first world cup. translation: obviously this is one of the most important matches i in the history of our football. maybe many didn't believe that we would be present at this press conference, but here we are.

all i have to say is that this is not a coincidence. this team have something that maybe others don't have. i'm very proud of the feats that we have achieved and we are ready for this final. translation: | would like all- in the stadium to sing the national anthem without music being played, just to see the grab, the energy, the positivism. i appeal that we can do this, because i'm sure if the portuguese people support us as they did against turkey last week, i'm sure we'll win the match. loads of world cup football for you tonight. that is all the sport for now. see you soon. thank you. let's go back to events in ukraine. delegations from ukraine and russia have been meeting for talks in turkey. it's the first meeting

between the two sides in two weeks. earlier i spoke to leigh turner, who was british ambassador to ukraine between 2008 and 2012 about the potential for a breakthrough following the negotiations — here's what he had to say. to assess the likelihood of success of these talks we have to consider the origin of this war, and we have to bear in mind that the purpose of this war, which is driven entirely by vladimir putin himself, is to keep vladimir putin in power for as long as possible. so he is in the autocrat�*s dilemma, that he fears any kind of democracy that could put him out of power because he cannot afford ever to lose power in russia. therefore, the vibrant democracy of ukraine next door, in a country which in many ways is similar to russia, is what he fears most and so his aim is to produce a ukraine which is predictable, under russian control and which doesn't offer an alternative model to people in russia for their futures.

now if we look at the prospects for peace talks against those war aims of president putin, i have to agree with your correspondents, that there are several reasons to be sceptical. the first one is the russian tactic of trying to confuse your enemy about what you have planned, and so it is much more likely that russia is indeed trying to regroup its military force, is playing for time and has no real intention of reaching an agreement. they have repeatedly misled us, misled the world about their plans over the last two months, we have seem them repeatedly saying one thing and doing another. a second important reason to be sceptical about the talks as mentioned by your correspondents, is where are the landing zones for a possible agreement? and one big problem is geography. it's impossible, or extremely difficult for the ukrainian side to give up territory in response

to russia aggression, if they were to recognise that crimea is part of russia or that parts of eastern ukraine are parts of russia, that would be similarly, on the russian side, for them not to control at least at much land after any possible peace agreement as they controlled at the beginning is very hard to imagine, so there is a geographical problem in reaching any agreement, and then there is is a problem of guarantees. if there were to be an agreement, who would guarantee that agreement? ukraine obviously isn't a member of nato, so nato can't guarantee an agreement, and we have seen in 2014, when many, many in the west unfortunately did not react strongly enough to russian aggression in the east of ukraine and in seizing crimea, in order not to provoke russia, they have just come and attacked ukraine again, and how would you guarantee that wouldn't happen? so those are reasons to be very sceptical.

i mean there are... but many, many difficulties as you have outlined but if i can as you have outlined, but if i can interrupt you there, the russian forces have taken a pounding, haven't they, much more than they expected, from young soldiers to seasoned commanders. the economy is being hit as well. ordinary russians are feeling the consequences of this war in their pockets, so could that make a difference to vladimir putin's approach? i think you are right, there is a glimmer of hope, and in a rather macabre and tragic way it comes from these terrible russian losses as well, of course, as the enormous civilian and military losses on the ukrainian side, but president zelensky described it as president putin throwing his soldiers like logs into the furnace of a train, and these enormous russian losses do potentially do change the equation, we have seen in the war in afghanistan, we have seen

in the war in the east of ukraine, that russian families, of course like any families, are extremely concerned about military losses, and that could change two things. one is russia's actual ability to maintain its campaign, as it suffers these huge losses, and secondly it could undermine putin's own position within russia, if a feeling, an anti—war feeling grows in russia. i wouldn't put too much hope in that because the russian leadership controls the media so strongly, but i would say on the whole you could say there is a 25% chance that russia is taking these talks seriously, but it's not just a delaying tactic, trying to get the complete victory that putin really wants. children with special educational needs will receive better help at school, and from an earlier stage, according to the department for education. last year, 1.4 million pupils

in england were identified as having special educational needs — and that number has been growing. joining me now is steve edmonds, who is a specialist education lead at the national governance association, which is a membership organisation for school governors and trustees of state—funded schools in england. thank you forjoining us, and have any sense, can you give us a sense of how that number of pupils identified as having special educational needs is growing? weill. educational needs is growing? well, i think i educational needs is growing? well, i think i should — educational needs is growing? well, i think i should start _ educational needs is growing? well, i think i should start by _ educational needs is growing? 2ii i think i should start by saying we welcome the publication of the group paper and we think it is right and sensible that it confronts the challenges of improving outcomes for pupils with seng, making it easier forfamilies to navigate pupils with seng, making it easier for families to navigate the system and deployment resources effectively to achieve those thing, it is regrettable, however, that it has

taken the government so long to complete its review, into seng and during that time the crisis has deepened, so really there is a lot at stake here and the green paper needs to be followed by bold improvements and system change which has to come quickly otherwise we run the risk of continuing to fail our most vulnerable pupils and think as you have reported today, the real impact of that is on family, many of whom experience delays in gets the support they need. it is right and sensible what has been identified, but we think there is still some way to go, in terms of... but we think there is still some way to go, in terms of. . ._ to go, in terms of... parents have been reporting — to go, in terms of... parents have been reporting delays _ to go, in terms of... parents have been reporting delays at - to go, in terms of... parents have been reporting delays at every i to go, in terms of... parents have i been reporting delays at every stage of this process, getting a statement, a plan in place, sometimes getting that one—to—one support their children need in school, so when the government talks about better help from earlier, are

there are details in this paper to back up exactly how that is going to be achieved?— be achieved? yes, there are. and, the details — be achieved? yes, there are. and, the details are _ be achieved? yes, there are. and, the details are all— be achieved? yes, there are. and, the details are all the _ be achieved? yes, there are. and, the details are all the prop - be achieved? yes, there are. and, the details are all the prop salts i the details are all the prop salts are encouraging, the proposals so simplify the process, to standardise it, and more consistent framework for delivering accountability, across area, which is really important, because those governing aspects want to see a system that intervenes early to proprevent needs from escalating and provides similar services irrespective of which school a child attend, so on that level we are encouraged by what we see in the green paper, however it has taken too long to produce, and it now needs to be followed by bold and rapid improvements to the system, to ensure that the legacy of

previous reforms back in 2014, which have led to rising numbers and complexity of need, and some authorities facing, you know, up to £100 million we need to get solution and the green paper is a start but it is by no means the end of this journey. steve edmunds thank you for your time. more now on the service of thanksgiving that's taking place today to celebrate the life of the duke of edinburgh. the service will give thanks for the duke of edinburgh's dedication to family, nation and commonwealth and recognise the importance of his legacy in creating opportunities for young people, promoting environmental stewardship and conservation, and supporting the armed forces.

asi as i look at the screen i can see arrivals at westminster abbey, foreign secretary liz truss has gone in, we saw the labour leader keir starmer going in as well, as scotland's first minister nicola sturgeonen arriving in the last few minutes, and there you can see waiting to greet them, at the abbey an honour guard of young men and women from many of the organisations, the charity, the duke of edinburgh was involved with, so as we were ex pec plaining this very much a celebration of his life, a thanksgiving service, —— explaining. for all of those causes, that he was involved in, and promoted throughout his life. and promoted throughout his life. with me is marco lambertini, director of the wildlife charity, wwf international,

of which the duke of edinburgh thank you for your time today marco, and the duke undertook many trip, many visits, didn't he on behalf of wwf to projects that you are involved in?— wwf to projects that you are involved in? ~ , , , ., involved in? absolutely, first of all, involved in? absolutely, first of all. thank _ involved in? absolutely, first of all. thank you _ involved in? absolutely, first of all, thank you for _ involved in? absolutely, first of all, thank you for having - involved in? absolutely, first of all, thank you for having me i involved in? absolutely, first of| all, thank you for having me and involved in? absolutely, first of- all, thank you for having me and the duke of edinburgh was one of the founders of wwf, 60 years ago and as you say he was the president, he was actually president emeritus until the end of his life and the president of wwf uk and he made an invaluable contribution to our mission. the duke was a man of action and was he was a tireless advocate, he had been advocate head of states rn, corporate business, leaders and for the conversation of the natural world and he made over 50 trips to visit the projects, he

launched campaigns for example the first rainforest campaign, and instigated new initiatives like the marine programme, deeply actively engaged, offering his voice and influence to the course of nature conversation, is fight! influence to the course of nature conversation, i- influence to the course of nature conversation, is and ahead of that time in the _ conversation, is and ahead of that time in the consciousness - conversation, is and ahead of that time in the consciousness of- time in the consciousness of stewardship of the environment and wildlife. ~ , ,., y stewardship of the environment and wildlife. ~ , ,., , ., , wildlife. absolutely, he would be remembered _ wildlife. absolutely, he would be remembered as _ wildlife. absolutely, he would be remembered as a _ wildlife. absolutely, he would be remembered as a very _ wildlife. absolutely, he would be remembered as a very active i wildlife. absolutely, he would be i remembered as a very active activist but as a visionary, connecting with future of our species, the future of civilisation, ahead of his time to the future and the stability and health of the natural world and as we all know very well this is still today a very actual theme and challenge for humanity, so he was a true visionary and a genuine advocate for nature conservation with the understanding that it is going to be the foundation for a

safe future for humanity. itide going to be the foundation for a safe future for humanity. we have been talking _ safe future for humanity. we have been talking today _ safe future for humanity. we have been talking today about - safe future for humanity. we have been talking today about the i safe future for humanity. we have i been talking today about the queen and we last service today, we think back to last year, hersitting service today, we think back to last year, her sitting on her own, following the covid rules at the funeral for the following the covid rules at the funeralfor the duke following the covid rules at the funeral for the duke of following the covid rules at the funeralfor the duke of edinburgh, today, she will be surrounded by her family, by representatives of the many charities, organisations that he was involved with, a complete contrast to that sombre occasion last year, what are your thoughts today for the queen?— last year, what are your thoughts today for the queen? well, i think the queen has _ today for the queen? well, i think the queen has been _ today for the queen? well, i think the queen has been married i today for the queen? well, i think the queen has been married to i today for the queen? well, i think the queen has been married to an j the queen has been married to an extraordinary man, and a person that has made a true contribution to the future of the whole, of all of our society round the world, by highlighting, advocating, by promoting the need to believe in harmony with nature, this is the mission of wwf. the future where people are able to live in harmony

with nature. not only because we have the moral duty to co—exist with the diversity of life but because we understand that nature is indispensable for our wellbeing, economy, survival and happiness and safe future, so it is a sombre moment but as you say earlier say it moment but as you say earlier say it moment to celebrate and extraordinary man and extraordinary life and extraordinary contribution. marco, thank you very much for your time today. the actor will smith has issued a full apology to the comedian chris rock, for slapping him during the oscars awards ceremony. the on—stage violence — prompted by a joke about the star's wife — was seen live by millions of people around the world. our correspondent, david willis, reports. to do what we do, you've got to be able to take abuse, you've got to be able to have people talk crazy about you.

will smith issued a tearful apology both to the academy and his fellow nominees on sunday night. but of one man, there was no mention. jada, i love you. gi jane 2, can't wait to see it. all right? chris rock's joke about smith's wife's hair loss led to her husband storming the stage and this slap across the face. oh, wow! and as a stunned, star—studded audience looked on, the actor proceeded to hurl profanity—laden abuse from his seat. keep my wife's name out of your... sound dips. ..mouth. i'm going to. nearly 24 hours after the academy awards got under way here, came a direct apology to chris rock. posting on instagram, will smith said he was wrong and out of line. "violence in all its forms is poisonous and destructive," he wrote. "my behaviour at last night's academy awards was unacceptable and inexcusable." now at this point, i can only laugh.

as you all know, i've been struggling with alopecia. smith also mentioned his wife's highly public battle with hair loss, saying a joke about her medical condition was too much for him to bear. his behaviour on what should have been one of the best nights of his life has been condemned by the academy, and an inquiry is under way, which could lead to him being censured or expelled. after dancing the night away, he'll have awoken to the collective sense of shock and disbelief here over what happened on sunday night. the slap that was seen around the world is unlikely to cost him his oscar, but there's a growing feeling that such a highly public act of violence cannot go unpublished. david willis, bbc news, los angeles. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt. hello. it will still feel quite pleasant across some western areas today where you have the sunshine,

but a few more showers breaking out as we go into the afternoon between the sunnier moments, northern ireland, southern scotland, northern england and wales. a lot of cloud across southern, eastern and northern areas though. to the south a few showers, a bit of drizzle in the low cloud through eastern coasts, and to northern scotland, well, the rain turning to sleet and snow as colder air pushes in. single figure temperatures here, temperatures close to normal for this stage in march elsewhere. the colder air is on the march southwards, outbreaks of rain turning to sleet and snow as we go through the night into the morning. widespread frost in scotland — minus five in some of the highlands. could be a little bit of morning sunshine in southern parts to begin with, but clouding here over here to outbreaks of rain, and that is the weather front which will bring the colder air gradually further southwards into wales, the midlands later in the day. sleet and snow across parts of northern england. most of the showers in northern scotland with a bit of sunshine in between, but note the temperature — mid single figures for many by this stage, feeling colder in the wind, and colder still into thursday, with a bit of sleet and snow in places and the chilly weather

lasts into the weekend. this is bbc news, the headlines at 11. the metropolitan police recommends 20 fines should initially be issued over downing street parties that breached coronavirus lockdown rules — but it says it won't be naming the individuals involved. a thanksgiving service to honour prince philip's life will take place in the next half hour — buckingham palace says the queen is currently intending to go. face to face talks to try to end the war in ukraine resume in istanbul. turkey's president erdogan says the meeting must yield results. unacceptable and inexcusable — hollywood star will smith says sorry to comedian chris rock for slapping him at the oscars.

shortly we will be joining a service of thanksgiving for the life of the duke of edinburgh, who died last april. that's taking place at westminster abbey this morning. this is this in this morning without some arrivals have begun, people greeted by an honour guard of young men and women from various groups and organisations that the duke was involved with. we bought a tonne to westminster abbey very soon. —— we will return.

we'll bring you that in the next half hour, first of all .. the metropolitan police is recommending that 20 initial fixed penalty notices are issued for breaches of covid—19 regulations in the wake of downing street parties. it's the first confirmation from the force that rules were broken. the force says it won't be naming the individuals or confirming which events the fines relate to. the met has examined a dozen events which took place during the pandemic — including some attended by the prime minister. the labour party has issued a statement in response to today's news — saying the buck stops with the prime minister, who spent months lying to the british public, which is why he has got to go. it is disgraceful that while the rest of the country followed their rules, borisjohnson s government acted like they did not apply to them.�* let's look in detail at the met statement released in the past hour, which says...

earlier i spoke to our chief political correspondent — adam fleming — who gave us the latest from westminster. up until now, we've had public outrage at reports and pictures and claims of events. then we had the investigation into this by sue gray, the senior civil servant who was tasked with looking into it and because of the police investigation, she could only come up with some very general interim findings. and she said that as far as she was concerned, the rules had been broken. but if the law had been broken, that was a matter for the police to decide. and the police have now decided that

in 20 instances, the laws about covid and the lockdowns and who you could see were broken in the buildings where those laws were written. now there's 20 instances, but that's the number of fixed penalty notices that are going to be issued in this case, but that could include the same person who attended multiple events. so it's not necessarily 20 people yet. and as the police make clear in their statement there, this is the beginning of the end of the legal process because they're still processing lots of evidence. remember, sue gray had something like 500 pages of documents and 300 photos, and so they're looking to see where the evidence takes them. so this will be hanging over the civil service, the political class, the establishment, if you like for a little while yet. and of course, there's no way an actual kind of logistical process and of course, there's now an actual kind of logistical process under way because the police have the intention of of issuing these fixed penalty notices. they then get passed on, as the statement says, to a body

called acro, which manages the criminal record system, who then get in touch with the individuals, and it all happens by post. so even though the police have announced their intention, the actual individuals might have to wait for a couple of days, maybe even longer, until till the actual find until the actual fine lands on the doormat, then they can decide whether to pay it or whether to challenge it in court. and, of course, adam before the war in ukraine, this story around partygate, as it came to be known, was was grabbing the lion's share of the headlines on most days. and if we think back to when claims about parties were first made, the response from from number ten from downing street was that nothing had happened and if it had, guidance was followed. so how problematic is this for borisjohnson right now? so remember that when the story was building and building and building, also building was the number of conservative mps who were sending letters to the chair of the 1922 committee, the committee of backbench mps calling for there to be a vote of confidence in boris johnson's leadership.

it never got to the threshold of 54 letters which would triggered the vote, but it was certainly and very publicly increasing what has happened since then, though since the invasion of ukraine by russia, is that some of those mps who had gone public with the fact that they sent a letter said that they'd actually withdrawn their letters because it did not feel like an appropriate thing to do while the prime minister was grappling with an international crisis. so that has happened. but equally, you still speak to backbench tory mps who say, ok, yes, the context has changed, but the charge that the people who made the rules and other people suffered under them, but then those people broke the rules still carries so much weight that actually it sort of doesn't really matter to them what the international context is. so there are still some mps who are ready to kind of try and push boris johnson out. but i have to say, i think the bulk of opinion on the conservative backbenches is amongst people who are still waiting for the final details before they

reach a judgment. so they're waiting to find out if the prime minister is one of the people who gets a fixed penalty notice. he may not be in this first tranche of notices. he might be in a later set of notices, or he may never get one at all. then sue gray, the civil servant, will be able to publish her final report with all the details because we're not going to get details from the police. and then i think the bulk of conservative party opinion will then come to a judgment about what to do about the prime minister. so this really is, as i said, at the beginning of the end, there's still potentially quite a long way for this party gate to go. peace talks between delegations from ukraine and russia are under way in turkey, with the ukrainian side pushing for a ceasefire. it's the first meeting between the two sides in two weeks, but hopes of a breakthrough at the negotiations in istanbul remain low. meanwhile, the foreign office says it's very concerned by the claim that the russian billionaire roman abramovich had symptoms of a suspected poisoning after talks at earlier this month to try to resolve the conflict with ukraine. mr abramovich has been pictured

at this morning's talks in turkey. a safe landing, hoping to secure a safer future. ukrainian delegates arriving in istanbul, gearing up for the latest round of peace talks, the first face—to—face in weeks. a ceasefire is their aim, although there is significant doubt over whether this is likely. translation: the minimum programme is first of all humanitarian questions. and the maximum programme is ceasefire and reaching a lasting agreement on it. the last time negotiations were held, there was no compromise. there is also another cause for concern. three of those involved in early discussions, which included russian billionaire roman abramovich, say they suffered suspected poisoning, a potentially lethal and serious claim. these people appeared to have been poisoned with something pretty severe.

the only other sort of place where organic phosphates would come from would be pesticides, and that seems unrealistic in this scenario. until we have detailed medical records, one has to assume they have been poisoned and possibly with a nerve agent. in kyiv, some normality ensues. some cafes have reopened, some pause in the fight. in the strategic port town of mariupol, near the border with the enemy, there is no such break. bombing has show no sign of letting up, it's a city in ruin. according to president zelensky, the scene of a war crime. along the black sea near the city of odesa in the south—west and there are signs that local troops are overcoming their foe, as russian tanks lie in ruin. this has led to resistance in nearby kherson, a city currently held

by putin's forces. russia will unlikely back down before they have finished taking the east of ukraine. so a month into this conflict, there is hope but scepticism that this latest round of talks will lead to any resolution or respite in this war. tomos morgan, bbc news. our correspondent in moscow jenny hill gave this assessment of what could be expected from today's talks the intensity of these negotiations and the topics they are discussing is increasing each and every time. i understand that russians now have to come to the table because our military is putting up

such a fight and our population is resisting russian aggression, so i do have hopes that this time we will have something out of these negotiations in turkey. and what is the hope, though, initially? just that there is a temporary ceasefire before the delegates get on to talking about a longer—lasting peace? yes, we want to have a ceasefire. we want to also have humanitarian corridors to be opened to be able to evacuate our civilians and to bring food and supplies to some of the besieged cities, like mariupol. unfortunately, russians also understand it and use it to their advantage, to bend our will, to bend our delegation's will, to show our weak points and press on them. we also have to discuss with them how they will get out of our sovereign territory and how our future system of architecture of our security will be built.

we will keep a close eye on those talks throughout the day, the russian side anticipating that will be some sort of statement made later at the conclusion of the talks. we turn to the service of thanksgiving for the duke of edinburgh. we're going now to westminster abbey in central london where a service is being held to remember the life of the duke of edinburgh, and huw edwards is there. what struck me was the warmth of the tributes, that is a normal communication and one fan that is very noticeable when they talk about philip. ile

very noticeable when they talk about phili -. . , very noticeable when they talk about phili .. ., , . ., very noticeable when they talk about phili -. .,, . ., ., very noticeable when they talk about phili-. . ., ., ., , philip. he was central to the family and at the time of _ philip. he was central to the family and at the time of his _ philip. he was central to the family and at the time of his death - philip. he was central to the family and at the time of his death such . philip. he was central to the family and at the time of his death such a| and at the time of his death such a wide variety of fond memories but it all came back to him being grandpa and they love their time with him and they love their time with him and he was extremely tolerant, they could get away with all sorts of things with him.— could get away with all sorts of thins with him. ., ., , things with him. one of the warmest tributes paid — things with him. one of the warmest tributes paid by _ things with him. one of the warmest tributes paid by the _ things with him. one of the warmest tributes paid by the princess - things with him. one of the warmest tributes paid by the princess royal i tributes paid by the princess royal who has just arrived and having a little chat with the gold award holders lining the approach to the abbey. such an honourfor them and a nice touch and this was one of the features that was meant to be seen at the funeral itself so it is love that they have been able to recreate it. ~ ., that they have been able to recreate it. . ., ., that they have been able to recreate it. 2 ., ., ., , that they have been able to recreate it. we had a military staircase -a it. we had a military staircase party but _ it. we had a military staircase party but this _ it. we had a military staircase party but this is _ it. we had a military staircase party but this is what - it. we had a military staircase party but this is what prince l party but this is what prince philip really— party but this is what prince philip really wanted, the duke of edinburgh award _ really wanted, the duke of edinburgh award holders was lives have been transformed by that extraordinary initiative — transformed by that extraordinary initiative he set up, military personnel that the princess royal

and greeting. another lovely touch, and greeting. another lovely touch, a sign _ and greeting. another lovely touch, a sign that— and greeting. another lovely touch, a sign that every detail of this extraordinary service was down to prince _ extraordinary service was down to prince philip was mike planning. the duke prince philip was mike planning. duke had a prince philip was mike planning. ti2 duke had a great affinity with lots of the credit forces, encouraging them in the ways of the military and to achieve great things by entering into careers in the military. just behind the weekend see the duke of york's daughters. yes behind the weekend see the duke of york's daughters.— york's daughters. yes princess beatrice and _ york's daughters. yes princess beatrice and eugenie, - york's daughters. yes princess beatrice and eugenie, very i york's daughters. yes princess l beatrice and eugenie, very much york's daughters. yes princess i beatrice and eugenie, very much the why don't here today, many people would have loved to have been the last year but because of covid.

passing the grave of the unknown warrior which is near the west door, the last head of state to pay his respects at the grave was president zelensky a couple of years ago, it is fitting to mark that today. given what is happening and that very troubled country. the what is happening and that very troubled country.— what is happening and that very troubled country. the duke of kent 'ust troubled country. the duke of kent just arriving- _ troubled country. the duke of kent just arriving. one _ troubled country. the duke of kent just arriving. one of _ troubled country. the duke of kent just arriving. one of the _ troubled country. the duke of kent just arriving. one of the queen's i just arriving. one of the queen's cousins, someone _ just arriving. one of the queen's cousins, someone who - just arriving. one of the queen's cousins, someone who has i just arriving. one of the queen's cousins, someone who has beenj just arriving. one of the queen's i cousins, someone who has been at her side in recent years especially at public events, a birthday parade, one of the three cousins including prince michael of kent entered in and we will expect the duke and

duchess of gloucester to arrive so close family. duchess of gloucester to arrive so close family-— duchess of gloucester to arrive so close family. and going back a long wa , the close family. and going back a long way. the duke _ close family. and going back a long way, the duke of— close family. and going back a long way, the duke of kent _ close family. and going back a long way, the duke of kent was - close family. and going back a long way, the duke of kent was another| way, the duke of kent was another member of the greek royal family and what we see as the interlinking of these royal houses of europe and the duke is what they all have in common, he is related to royal houses of denmark and spain and places like serbia and even a great—nephew of the last tsar. it was often said he was more royal than the royals. the was often said he was more royal than the royals.— was often said he was more royal than the royals. the duke entering the abbey and _ than the royals. the duke entering the abbey and being _ than the royals. the duke entering the abbey and being escorted i than the royals. the duke entering | the abbey and being escorted along with the duke and duchess of gloucester who have made their way in and they are passing through the screen into the quiet. the

in and they are passing through the screen into the quiet.— screen into the quiet. the glass does lei screen into the quiet. the glass does leg gloucesters _ screen into the quiet. the glass does leg gloucesters and i i screen into the quiet. the glass does leg gloucesters and i was| screen into the quiet. the glass i does leg gloucesters and i was in the abbey— does leg gloucesters and i was in the abbey earlier and their extended family— the abbey earlier and their extended family you _ the abbey earlier and their extended family you can see for ten rows members — family you can see for ten rows members of the royal family who would _ members of the royal family who would have loved to have been the fun the _ would have loved to have been the fun the funeral and prince and princess— fun the funeral and prince and princess michael of kent to could not be _ princess michael of kent to could not be at — princess michael of kent to could not be at the funeral but it was so important — not be at the funeral but it was so important for all these people to have their— important for all these people to have their moment of saying thank you. have their moment of saying thank ou. ~ . have their moment of saying thank ou. 2 ., , ., ., .,, ., you. we have the dean and chapter of westminster. — you. we have the dean and chapter of westminster, the _ you. we have the dean and chapter of westminster, the senior _ you. we have the dean and chapter of westminster, the senior clergy - you. we have the dean and chapter of westminster, the senior clergy led i westminster, the senior clergy led by the dean waiting for the senior members of the royal family to arrive and they will be greeted when they come and show to their seats. we have the earl of wessex just arriving with the countess of wessex

and their children. they also will be part of the worldwide tour in terms of marking the platinum jubilee. , 2, terms of marking the platinum jubilee. , ., ,., 2, terms of marking the platinum jubilee. , ., ., ., ., jubilee. they are soon to go on another tour _ jubilee. they are soon to go on another tour of _ jubilee. they are soon to go on another tour of the _ jubilee. they are soon to go on another tour of the caribbean i jubilee. they are soon to go on i another tour of the caribbean and for the _ another tour of the caribbean and for the of— another tour of the caribbean and for the of wessex and important day not only— for the of wessex and important day not only honouring his father and following — not only honouring his father and following long time he has taken over stewardship of the duke of edinburgh once which are at the heart _ edinburgh once which are at the heart of— edinburgh once which are at the heart of this service and we will hear— heart of this service and we will hear from — heart of this service and we will hear from an award holder and for him at _ hear from an award holder and for him at is — hear from an award holder and for him at is wonderful to honour his father— him at is wonderful to honour his father and — him at is wonderful to honour his father and also see his father's legacy— father and also see his father's legacy going for once and changing peoples _ legacy going for once and changing peoples lives. we saw how driving a carriage.

taking on the legacy of his carriage drivinu. ,, , , taking on the legacy of his carriage drivin. _ ,, , , ., ., taking on the legacy of his carriage drivinu. ,, , , ., taking on the legacy of his carriage driving-_ she i driving. she is very good at it. she is, i saw driving. she is very good at it. she is. i saw her _ driving. she is very good at it. she is, i saw her windsor _ driving. she is very good at it. she is, i saw her windsor show - driving. she is very good at it. she is, i saw her windsor show last i driving. she is very good at it. she l is, i saw her windsor show last year and these _ is, i saw her windsor show last year and these wonderful parts of his legacy— and these wonderful parts of his legacy still alive and kicking, as he would — legacy still alive and kicking, as he would want them to be. the earl of wessex who _ he would want them to be. the earl of wessex who has _ he would want them to be. the earl of wessex who has inherited - he would want them to be. the earl of wessex who has inherited not i he would want them to be. the earll of wessex who has inherited not just of wessex who has inherited notjust at the awards but the london youth responsibilities, one of the duke of�*s great passions, all of these charities promoting opportunities and specially for disadvantaged young people. it and specially for disadvantaged young people-— and specially for disadvantaged young people. and specially for disadvantaged oun. ..eole, . ., ., young people. it was so central, one of his very first _ young people. it was so central, one of his very first patronage _ young people. it was so central, one of his very first patronage has i young people. it was so central, one of his very first patronage has long i of his very first patronage has long before the queen became queen, was the national playing fields association, so enhancing youth opportunities is a thread that ran right through and the earl of wessex has brought that on in the same way that the princess royal, who we saw earlier, she has taken on some of his key organisations, like the commonwealth study conferences, identifying the young leaders of tomorrow right around the world, the

commonwealth royal agricultural, so many of these organisations. there is the princess with tim laurence. they are all continuing at legacy. they are all continuing at legacy. the duke, of course, said i don't want a legacy but he has won and we are seeing it today. the want a legacy but he has won and we are seeing it today.— are seeing it today. the bells are rinrain are seeing it today. the bells are ringing very _ are seeing it today. the bells are ringing very clearly _ are seeing it today. the bells are ringing very clearly outside i are seeing it today. the bells are ringing very clearly outside and l ringing very clearly outside and we just want to say one word, if we can p0p just want to say one word, if we can pop outside the abbey for a moment, to take in the full atmosphere of the bells ringing all around westminster, signalling that this very important service of thanksgiving is to get under way. ten ringo is hard at work today under the direction ofjeremy pratt and before the service, 144 changes of the sequence of the bells, the

grand sire of caters. and afterwards, in case i don't get a chance to mention it, there will be 669 changes of the steadman caters and i hope someone is counting! jokes aside, it is a magnificent sound just to hear those bells. the power and the resonance is wonderful and, in the studio here, we are facing the abbey, we can feel the full force of the bells. they are just taking their seats.- full force of the bells. they are just taking their seats. they all look so happy _ just taking their seats. they all look so happy and _ just taking their seats. they all look so happy and they - just taking their seats. they all look so happy and they are - just taking their seats. they all look so happy and they are all| look so happy and they are all ioking — look so happy and they are all joking and there is humour and celebration and joy amongst the royal— celebration and joy amongst the royal family today, such a different picture _ royal family today, such a different picture to _ royal family today, such a different picture to that seen a year ago. so we picture to that seen a year ago. sc we will picture to that seen a year ago. we will have a picture to that seen a year ago. sr we will have a steady stream of senior members of the royal family making their way towards the abbey.

so, let's see who is next to arrive. it looks like the prince of wales and the duchess of cornwall. and the dean will greet them. as he has done many times on these great events. and, again, the tribute paid by the prince, which we heard just a short while ago but, indeed, in the days after the death of his father, he radiated warmth. again, there has been talk in the past about the fact that they maybe had a bit of friction in the relationship, who knows, but, actually, it was warm. they are such similar characters in terms of their interests, always asking questions, they had so much in common and, no, it was very sweet to see the way the prince was just,

you know, spoke for all the family. and, of course, the duchess of cornwall, she is one of the duke's very last public engagements, to hand over the rifles, and it is very touching, on her lapel, she is wearing the badge of the rifles and that meant a lot to her and that was i think the last time we saw him, at that ceremony at windsor. so many of these little touches today, i'm sure we will see them all through the service. just when we watch these members of the royal family processing down the aisles, we will see hundreds of people from all of these organisations represented. we caught a glimpse there of the brooch. there it is. and the duchess herself was very keen to say that it was an honour to take over, but the way in which it was transferred, she

appreciated very much. find way in which it was transferred, she appreciated very much.— way in which it was transferred, she appreciated very much. and he was a ureat appreciated very much. and he was a great inspiration _ appreciated very much. and he was a great inspiration to _ appreciated very much. and he was a great inspiration to her, _ appreciated very much. and he was a great inspiration to her, she - appreciated very much. and he was a great inspiration to her, she said - great inspiration to her, she said at the time that, when she came into the family, as he did and had to suddenly take on this very prominent role, he was really sort of the mentor, the template for what she has done. the duchess of cambridge we can see 'ust the duchess of cambridge we can see just arriving _ the duchess of cambridge we can see just arriving with the duke of cambridge and i think we will see their— cambridge and i think we will see their children as well. there we go, princess— their children as well. there we go, princess charlotte and prince georgo _ princess charlotte and prince george. it is lovely to have them here _ george. it is lovely to have them here and — george. it is lovely to have them here and the first really huge event like this— here and the first really huge event like this for— here and the first really huge event like this for them. just here and the first really huge event like this for them.— like this for them. just a proper family occasion. _ like this for them. just a proper family occasion. it _ like this for them. just a proper family occasion. it is, _ like this for them. just a proper family occasion. it is, just - like this for them. just a proper family occasion. it is, just to i family occasion. it is, 'ust to understand * family occasion. it is, 'ust to understand and fi family occasion. it is, 'ust to understand and have _ family occasion. it is, just to understand and have a - family occasion. it is, just to i understand and have a concept family occasion. it is, just to - understand and have a concept of what _ understand and have a concept of what an _ understand and have a concept of what an important figure their grandfather was. what an important figure their grandfatherwas. lovely what an important figure their grandfather was. lovely to see them with their— grandfather was. lovely to see them with their parents. it is grandfather was. lovely to see them with their parents.— with their parents. it is a site that young — with their parents. it is a site that young man _ with their parents. it is a site that young man is _ with their parents. it is a site that young man is going - with their parents. it is a site that young man is going to i with their parents. it is a site i that young man is going to see with their parents. it is a site - that young man is going to see for a very long time, the rest of his life, so a big day for him but how

charming they are here. {line life, so a big day for him but how charming they are here.- life, so a big day for him but how charming they are here. one of the lovely things _ charming they are here. one of the lovely things i _ charming they are here. one of the lovely things i was _ charming they are here. one of the lovely things i was just _ charming they are here. one of the lovely things i wasjust on - charming they are here. one of the lovely things i wasjust on the - charming they are here. one of the lovely things i wasjust on the tour| lovely things i was just on the tour with william and catherine, william spoke _ with william and catherine, william spoke about his grandfather in all of the _ spoke about his grandfather in all of the speeches, his conservation work, _ of the speeches, his conservation work. the — of the speeches, his conservation work, the knowledge she had of all the caribbean realm so that was his public— the caribbean realm so that was his public wav— the caribbean realm so that was his public way of remembering him in advance _ public way of remembering him in advance of— public way of remembering him in advance of this service. —— the knowledge _ advance of this service. —— the knowledge he had. doctor dr david hoyle is the dean of westminster, just introducing the duke and, indeed, prince george. just eight years old, just getting used _ just eight years old, just getting used to— just eight years old, just getting used to line ups. find just eight years old, 'ust getting used to line ups. and accomplishing it very well. — used to line ups. and accomplishing it very well, looks _ used to line ups. and accomplishing it very well, looks the _ used to line ups. and accomplishing it very well, looks the part. - used to line ups. and accomplishing it very well, looks the part. he - it very well, looks the part. he does, it very well, looks the part. he does. very _ it very well, looks the part. he does, very much so and very nice for princess— does, very much so and very nice for princess charlotte to be there as well _ princess charlotte to be there as well. ., ., ~' , ., well. looking him in the eye and he has a smile. — well. looking him in the eye and he has a smile. it _ well. looking him in the eye and he has a smile, it is _ well. looking him in the eye and he has a smile, it is a _ well. looking him in the eye and he has a smile, it is a very _ well. looking him in the eye and he has a smile, it is a very nice - well. looking him in the eye and he has a smile, it is a very nice site. i has a smile, it is a very nice site. we were talking earlier about the duchess — we were talking earlier about the duchess of cornwall having taken on

the riftes— duchess of cornwall having taken on the rifles and of course, the duchess _ the rifles and of course, the duchess of cambridge took over patronage of the raf air cadets from philip. _ patronage of the raf air cadets from philip. that— patronage of the raf air cadets from philip, that was her first patronage -- raf — philip, that was her first patronage -- raf air— philip, that was her first patronage —— raf air cadets. find philip, that was her first patronage -- raf air cadets.— -- raf air cadets. and the air cadets are _ -- raf air cadets. and the air cadets are here, _ -- raf air cadets. and the air cadets are here, he _ -- raf air cadets. and the air cadets are here, he was - -- raf air cadets. and the air. cadets are here, he was colonel -- raf air cadets. and the air- cadets are here, he was colonel in chief of the air cadets and it is a nice touch, you have all of the rich military history at his funeral and here today, the other end of the spectrum, the cadets, the service men and women of the future. she is an absolute — men and women of the future. she is an absolute natural, _ men and women of the future. she is an absolute natural, princess - an absolute natural, princess charlotte. an absolute natural, princess charlotte-— an absolute natural, princess charlotte. . , , ., ., charlotte. nice smiles and a firm handshake- _ charlotte. nice smiles and a firm handshake. so _ charlotte. nice smiles and a firm handshake. so the _ charlotte. nice smiles and a firm handshake. so the duke - charlotte. nice smiles and a firm handshake. so the duke and - charlotte. nice smiles and a firm - handshake. so the duke and duchess of cambridge and children make their way down through the quire and right down to the furthest end of the abbey. just about. and they will wait there for the arrival of the queen. i think it is fair to say,

robert, and roya, this is a moment where we reflect on the fact that her majesty is doing remarkably well, given the challenges she has pace, notjust with covid recently but to do with mobility, i suppose. i think mobility is the issue. and also i think dignity is terribly important to her majesty, she wants to look at the party, she wants to look like a queen and i think that is why it is great, during the pandemic, we have been able to see her at work. i pandemic, we have been able to see herat work. i mean, pandemic, we have been able to see her at work. i mean, who would have thought zoom would have played a part in real life? there we have the prince of wales and at the duchess coming through the quire and they will see their german cousins on the left and theirfamily will see their german cousins on the left and their family on the right. just to explain to viewers who are joining us from home and wherever you are watching, the great west door has now been closed, the choir

is coming in. james o'donnell is the organist and director of music and master of the choristers at westminster abbey. the west doors have been closed because her majesty will not be coming in through the west door that we are familiar with, she will be coming in through a different entrance so that the walk is slightly less toner us and we all understand that. it is is slightly less toner us and we all understand that.— is slightly less toner us and we all understand that. it is the root she took when — understand that. it is the root she took when she _ understand that. it is the root she took when she came _ understand that. it is the root she took when she came to _ understand that. it is the root she took when she came to the - understand that. it is the root she took when she came to the abbey j understand that. it is the root she i took when she came to the abbey for the centenary of the royal british legion last autumn, through what they call poets' corner, a much shorter route. of course, no one has attended more events in the abbey probably in its history than the queen, she knows every part of it, so i don't think she will get lost. we expect the queen to be arriving in just a few minutes' time. as robert was saying, this of course is the glorious setting of the queen's

wedding to prince philip back in 1947, a great services to market the jubilees, silver, gold and and diamond jubilee. it really is a great arc of british history. it represents continuity and stability thatis represents continuity and stability that is unmatched in the history of the british monarchy. the that is unmatched in the history of the british monarchy.— the british monarchy. the longest lived, the british monarchy. the longest lived. longest _ the british monarchy. the longest lived, longest reigning _ the british monarchy. the longest lived, longest reigning monarch i the british monarchy. the longest| lived, longest reigning monarch in british history and so much of that royal history is unfolded inside these walls. and it is looking magnificent today, it is wonderful that there is a full house and look at the flowers, red, white and blue and, you know, references to the wedding bouquet, so

the procession of clergy which will precede the start of the service of thanksgiving. the organ played by peter holder, sub—organist and then the assistant organist playing some of the lovely pieces by bach, whitlock, vaughan williams, wagner. we expect the state trumpeters of the household can read to make their way into the abbey at any moment. they will sound the fanfare to signal the queen'sarrival.

passing the alter, and they will line up to face the abbey, faced the great organ screen, down through the nave to the west door, a magnificent site. —— sight. fanfare plays.

# he who would valiant be # 'gainst all disaster # let him in constancy # follow the master # there's no discouragement # shall make him once relent # his first avowed intent # to be a pilgrim # who so beset his round # with dismal stories

# do but themselves confound # his strength the more is # no foes shall stay his might # though he with giants fight # he will make good his right # to be a pilgrim # since lord thou dost defend # us with the spirit # we know we at the end # shall life inherit # then fancies flee away

# i'll fear not what men say # i'll labour night and day # to be a pilgrim.# in westminster abbey, where he made promises that defined a life of willing duty and spirited service, we give thanks for his royal highness the prince philip, duke of edinburgh. a man of rare ability and distinction, rightly honoured and celebrated, he ever directed our attention away from himself.

he put privilege to work and understood his rank as a spur to service. working at pace, with so many claims on his attention, he encouraged us to focus, as he was focused, on the things that matter. his was a discipline and character that seized opportunity and overcame obstruction and difficulty. we recall, with affection and respect, the sustained offering of a long life lived fully. acknowledging our loss, we turn to the god who is our help, for he will renew our hope. in grateful remembrance of the prince philip, we then commit ourselves to live as he lived, in faith, in the service of her majesty, and with a greater reverence for our world and our neighbours.

let us pray in the words thatjesus taught us. our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. give us this day our daily bread. and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. amen. good morning, everyone. istarted the duke of edinburgh is a ward when i was 15. i the duke of edinburgh is a ward when iwas15. i had previously the duke of edinburgh is a ward when i was 15. i had previously heard about the award but never applied until my mum encouraged me. she is

straight and nigerian so it is difficult to say no! i wasn't completely sold on the idea at first. i was happy i could learn new skills and build upon interests such as learning how to drive and play netball. but i was worried about the expedition. i grew up in east london and had never been camping before. ialso east london and had never been camping before. i also had a fear of climbing steep hills. i kept thinking i was going to trip up, roll down the mountain and it is lights out! fortunately for me, that didn't happen. my friend constantly said, you are not going to fall and if you do, i am you are not going to fall and if you do, iam right you are not going to fall and if you do, i am right behind you. that was so comforting. the support of my team and our ability to communicate and work well together resulted in

successfully completing our expedition. i rememberthinking successfully completing our expedition. i remember thinking to myself, if i could complete this expedition, i can do anything. even though at the time i was 18 and not sure about my future. i decided to apply to several gap year schemes and landed my firstjob as a programme coordinator at ibm. i thoroughly enjoyed my work but i wasn't ready to hang up my education hatjust wasn't ready to hang up my education hat just yet so i attended wasn't ready to hang up my education hatjust yet so i attended the university of essex. during the summer my old manager who was aware of my involvement in the duke of edinburgh's award invited me to help set up a work experience programme for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. this programme is still in effect to this very day. a a few years later i completed my degree, i returned on the graduate scheme which enabled me to develop

my professional skills and pursue my interest in health research. over the years, the award remains a prominent part of my life, from encouraging more young women to pursue careers in technology, to partake in the do it for you campaign as captain for london. in october i started a newjob as an account executive selling data analytics, automation software, to clients. i also began a phd in sickle cell research and health inequalities at brunel university in london. looking back, iam thrilled with how far i have come but most importantly so was my mum. so, how did i get my firstjob at 18 without any professional experience? the duke of edinburgh's award. all the answers in my cv and interview

were all related to the work i had previously done with the award. give an example of where you showed teamwork skills? my exhibition —— my expedition. an example of where you have taken initiative? i had to fund raise for my trip to the gambia. it all links back to the award which actually links back to the word opportunity. on reflection, i never thought i could do half the things i have done in the last decade, yet i have done in the last decade, yet i have been able to do so because of the opportunities presented to me. in 1956, when the duke of edinburgh created the award, he had a vision to create a programme which supported the development of young people all over the world. today you have learned how his legacy has impacted me and how it has continued to impact future generations to

come. the world has been through so much turmoil and in these times it is so important to show our support to young people, to encourage opportunities and empower them to reach theirfull opportunities and empower them to reach their full potential. thank you. to whom then will ye liken me, or shall i be equal? saith the holy one. lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth. why sayest thou, 0 jacob, and speakest, o israel, my way is hid from the lord, and myjudgment is passed over from my god? hast thou not known?

hast thou not heard, that the everlasting god, the lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. he giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. even the youths shall faint and be wearv. _ and the young men shall utterly fall: but they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. thanks be to god.

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# and finally by thy mercy # obtain everlasting life # throuthesus christ our lord

# amen.# rejoice in the lord always: and again i say, rejoice. let your moderation be known unto all men. the lord is at hand. be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto god.

and the peace of god, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through christjesus. throuthesus christ. finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. think upon these things. those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the god of peace shall be with you. thanks be to god.

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# alleluia # thou flowing water, pure and clear # make music for thy lord to hear # alleluia # thou fire so masterful and bright # that givest man both warmth and light # o praise him

# alleluia # dear mother earth who day by day # unfoldest blessings on our way # o praise him # alleluia # the flowers and fruits that in thee grow # let them his glory also show # o praise him

# alleluia # let all things their creator bless # and worship him in humbleness # o praise him # alleluia # praise the father, praise the son # and praise the spirit, three in one # o praise him # alleluia.#

there is no discouragement shall make him once relent, his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim. these arejohn bunyan's words from our opening him. they remind us very much of the courage, integrity, steadfastness and sense of purpose that were part of the intriguing and

attractive mix that went to make up the personality of prince philip, duke of edinburgh. but in what was it all rooted? in 1947, prince philip was made a knight of the order of the garter. on the back of his stall in st george's chapel, windsor castle, is fixed in perpetuity and for everyone to see a small, enamelled brass plate on which is inscribed his motto. it is simply," god is my help." we do not

understand the man unless we see him at the heart to be a man of faith. that faith was never dogmatic, sentimental or paraded and, as it went in search of understanding, was frequently questioned and examined. however, it was real and it endured, inspiring and shaping a lifetime of commitment to the making of this world a better place. i am not sure that prince philip had much time for the theological controversies that divide people. his faith was a

heartfelt trust in a loving god whose intention for this world is glimpsed in the life and teaching of jesus christ. such trust, such hope as could unite people in a common endeavour. this trust, this hope, was not idle wishful thinking or escapism. rather, it evoked in him a kind of impatience, eagerness for that god intended future upon which his gaze was always fixed. he knew, however, that that future, from any

human point of view, had to be human point of view, had to he arrived at step—by—step. he was practical, wanting to put flesh upon his dreams and acknowledging the limitations of living in this so—called real world, he devoted his astonishing intellectual and physical energy, his enormous capacity for sheer hard work, to a host of down—to—earth enterprises. these included the equipping of young people to face tomorrow's challenges, the encouragement of respect and care for the natural order and his pioneering work in facilitating conversation between representatives of the different world faiths. through his passionate

commitment, he drew others to himself in admiration and respect and, in the case of those who lived and, in the case of those who lived and worked most closely to him, genuine love. however, i sense that he did not believe that all these achievements were made in his own strength. i'm reminded of those words, "god is my help". i think he understood his constant need of inspiration and guidance. i'm quite sure that his prayers were not reserved for public occasions alone. he would hate to think that i should

paint a picture of him as a plaster saint, someone without the usual human foibles and failings. he was far too self—aware, ever, to be taken in by flattery. of course, it must be said that his life bore the marks of sacrifice and service. certainly, he could show great sympathy and kindness. there is no doubt that he had a delightfully engaging and often self—deprecating sense of humour. it is quite clear that his mind held together both speculation and common sense. moreover, nobody will ever doubt his loyalty and deep devotion to our

queen and to their family. yet, there were times when he could be abrupt, may be in robust conversation, forgetting just how intimidating he could be. a kind of natural reserve sometimes made him seem a little distant. he could be somewhat sharp in pricking what he thought to be bubbles of pomposity or sycophancy. thought to be bubbles of pomposity orsycophancy. on thought to be bubbles of pomposity or sycophancy. on the other hand, we should not forget that he himself was sometimes wounded by being unfairly criticised or misunderstood. like the rest of us, he was part of flawed humanity.

unlike most of us, however, he was one of those rare people who remained true to and guided by what you might call an inner spiritual compass, a sense of being called to play a part in the making of a god intended world. as we give thanks for the life of a remarkable man, perhaps, our greatest tribute to him most especially in these far too troubled times, will be for us to accept the challenge implicit in his life, to rekindle in our hearts something of that call and to pray as i think he did for the inspiration and the

guidance, to play our part, however small, in working for a kinder future. # we praise thee, praise thee, praise thee # o god, 0 god # we acknowledge thee, # ackknowledge thee # we acknowledge thee, knowledge thee # to be the lord, to be the lord # all the earth doth worship thee # the father everlasting

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of the prophets # the noble army of martyrs # the holy church thoughout all the world doth acknowledge thee # the father of an infinite majesty # thine honourable true and only son # also the holy ghost, the comforter

# thou art the king of glory, o christ # o christ # thou art the everlasting son of the father # o christ # when thou tookest upon thee to deliver man # thou didst not abhor the virgin's womb # o christ # when thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death # thou didst open the kingdom of heaven to all believers # christ, thou sittest at the right hand of god # in the glory of the father

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everlasting # everlasting # lord, save thy people # lord save thy people # and bless thine heritage # govern them and lift them # govern them and lift them up # and lift them up forever

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# let me never be confounded.#

let us give thanks to almighty god for the life and work of the prince philip, duke of edinburgh, and pray for all who honour his legacy and continue his work. let us give thanks for his service as consort, liege man of life and limb, and of earthly worship to her majesty; for his devotion to family, to nation and to commonwealth; for his strength and constancy. 0 father of all, we pray thee for those whom we love but see no longer. grant them thy peace; or right —

perpetual shine upon them; and, in thy loving wisdom and almighty power, work in them the good purpose of thy perfect will; through jesus christ our lord. amen. let us give thanks for his energy and spirit of adventure; for his work with the young to discover new skills and serve their communities. let us pray especially for the work of cadet forces and all engaged in the duke of edinburgh's award. teach us, good lord, to serve thee as thou deservest; to give and not to count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labour and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do thy will; throuthesus christ our lord. amen. let us give thanks for his work in conservation and the good

stewardship of the environment, in bringing together people of many faiths, and in the work of the world wildlife fund. almighty god, whose loving hand hath given us all that we possess in creation; grant us grace that we may honour thee with our substance, and remembering the account which we must one day give, may be faithful stewards of thy bounty; through jesus christ our lord. amen. let us give thanks for his gifts of character; for his humour and resilience; his fortitude and devotion to duty; that we may follow his good example in the service of our fellows. o lord god, when thou givest to thy servants to endeavour any great matter, grant us also to know that it is not the beginning, but the continuing of the same unto the end, until it be thoroughly finished, which yieldeth the true glory;

through him who for the finishing of thy work laid down his life, our redeemer, jesus christ. amen. let us give thanks to our heavenly father for all his blessings and mercies, and dedicate ourselves anew to his service. almighty god, father of all mercies, we thine unworthy servants do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving kindness to us and to all men. we bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our lord jesus christ, for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory. and we beseech thee, give us that due sense of all thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly thankful. _

and that we show forth thy praise, not only with our lips, but in our lives; by giving up ourselves to thy service, and by walking before thee in holiness and righteousness all our days. through jesus christ our lord, to whom, with thee and the holy ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. amen. # guide me, o thou great redeemer # pilgrim through this barren land # i am weak but thou art mighty # hold me with thy powerful hand

# bread of heaven bread of heaven # feed me till i want no more # open now the crystal fountain # whence the healing stream doth flow. # let the fiery cloudy pillar # lead me all myjourney through strong deliverer strong deliverer # be thou still my strength and shield

# be thou still my strength and shield # when i tread the verge ofjordan # bid my anxious fears subside # death of death and hell's destruction # land me safe on canaan's side # songs of praises songs of praises # i will ever give to thee # i will ever give to thee #.

god, grant to the living grace; to the departed rest; to the church, the queen, the commonwealth, and to all people, peace and concord; and to us sinners life everlasting; and the blessing of god almighty, the father, the son, and the holy spirit, be amongst you and remain with you now and always. amen. fanfare plays

# god save our gracious queen. # long live our noble queen # god save the queen # send her victorious # happy and glorious # long to reign over us # god save the queen.#

huw edwards: the dean of westminster approaches seeing her majesty the queen, to escort her majesty, the

deputy speaker and a lord speaker over to poets' corner, which is the route taken by the queen into the abbey today. her majesty being escorted out, as she was escorted in, by the duke of york. the royal family, having heard the tribute of the dean of windsor, and the queen will be heading back to windsor after this service. at poets' corner, the queen will be just greeting the gold award winner who spoke earlier, at the start of

the service, and spoke very eloquently about her experience and the way in which the duke of edinburgh award scheme had helped her and inspired her. listened to with interest and the queen smiling and acknowledging the contribution. and the dean of windsor, who gave that wonderful tribute, arm in arm with prince andrew, the duke of york in a rare public appearance for him after the settling of that legal case in the states a few weeks ago. the prince of wales and the duchess of cornwall, acknowledging the smiles of the distinguished guests, under the lantern there beyond the

quire. the duke and duchess of cornwall, having made their way towards the screen, and now the duke and duchess of cambridge, with their children. and the procession of clergy. the superb military musicians who have been taking part today. the fanfare before the national anthem sounded by the fanfare team of the central band of the royal air force. as the senior royals make their way

to the west door of the abbey. the queen has already left, on her way back to windsor, where we understand she may be meeting some of the guests who have been at the service today. the prince of wales thanking the clergy and james o'donnell, the director of music at the abbey, for their wonderful contribution to the service. the bells of westminster abbey sending out once again and signalling that this service of thanksgiving has come to an end. the queen, of course, will be celebrating her 96th birthday next month on the 21st of april and we look forward to returning in early

june to those platinum jubilee celebrations, marking a reign without equal of 70 years but, for now, from all of the bbc team at westminster abbey, thank you for watching and goodbye. that service of thanksgiving for the

duke of edinburgh for his life and work ending at westminster abbey. the duke and duchess of cambridge just leaving with prince george and princess charlotte and this event such a contrast to prince philip osma funeral at windsor last year, today the queen surrounded by her family, at the funeral she followed the covid rules and sat alone in st george's chapel at a social distance from other members of the family in an image that most people will not be able to forget. in the next half hour i will speak to prince philip

osma biographerfor his reflections on the service. let's bring some of the other news. the metropolitan police is recommending that 20 initial fixed penalty notices are issued for breaches of covid—19 regulations in the wake of downing street parties. it's the first confirmation from the force that rules were broken. the force says it won't be naming the individuals or confirming which events the fines relate to. the met has examined a dozen events which took place during the pandemic — including some attended by the prime minister. including some attended the labour party has issued a statement in response to today's news — saying the buck stops with the prime minister, who spent months lying to the british public, which is why he has got to go. it is disgraceful that while the rest of the country followed their rules, borisjohnson s government acted like they did not apply to them.�* let's look in detail at the met statement released

earlier this morning which says... earlier i spoke to our chief political correspondent — adam fleming — who gave us the latest from westminster. up until now, we've had public outrage at reports and pictures and claims of events. then we had the investigation into this by sue gray, the senior civil servant who was tasked

with looking into it and because of the police investigation, she could only come up with some very general interim findings. and she said that as far as she was concerned, the rules had been broken. but if the law had been broken, that was a matter for the police to decide. and the police have now decided that in 20 instances, the laws about covid and the lockdowns and who you could see were broken in the buildings where those laws were written. now there's 20 instances, but that's the number of fixed penalty notices that are going to be issued in this case, but that could include the same person who attended multiple events. so it's not necessarily 20 people yet. and as the police make clear in their statement there, this is the beginning of the end of the legal process because they're still processing lots of evidence. remember, sue gray had something like 500 pages of documents and 300 photos, and so they're looking to see where the evidence takes them. so this will be hanging over the civil service, the political

class, the establishment, if you like for a little while yet. and of course, there's now an actual kind of logistical process under way because the police have the intention of of issuing these fixed penalty notices. they then get passed on, as the statement says, to a body called acro, which manages the criminal record system, who then get in touch with the individuals, and it all happens by post. so even though the police have announced their intention, the actual individuals might have to wait for a couple of days, maybe even longer, until the actual fine lands on the doormat, then they can decide whether to pay it or whether to challenge it in court. and, of course, adam before the war in ukraine, this story around partygate, as it came to be known, was grabbing the lion's share of the headlines on most days. and if we think back to when claims about parties were first made, the response from number ten from downing street was that nothing had happened and if it had, guidance was followed. so how problematic is this for borisjohnson right now?

so remember that when the story was building and building and building, also building was the number of conservative mps who were sending letters to the chair of the 1922 committee, the committee of backbench mps calling for there to be a vote of confidence in boris johnson's leadership. it never got to the threshold of 54 letters which would triggered the vote, but it was certainly and very publicly increasing. what has happened since then, though since the invasion of ukraine by russia, is that some of those mps who had gone public with the fact that they sent a letter said that they'd actually withdrawn their letters because it did not feel like an appropriate thing to do while the prime minister was grappling with an international crisis. so that has happened. but equally, you still speak to backbench tory mps who say, ok, yes, the context has changed, but the charge that the people who made the rules and other people suffered under them, but then those people broke the rules still carries so much weight that actually it sort of doesn't really matter to them what the international context is.

so there are still some mps who are ready to kind of try and push boris johnson out. but i have to say, i think the bulk of opinion on the conservative backbenches is amongst people who are still waiting for the final details before they reach a judgment. so they're waiting to find out if the prime minister is one of the people who gets a fixed penalty notice. he may not be in this first tranche of notices. he might be in a later set of notices, or he may never get one at all. then sue gray, the civil servant, will be able to publish her final report with all the details because we're not going to get details from the police. and then i think the bulk of conservative party opinion will then come to a judgment about what to do about the prime minister. so this really is, as i said, at the beginning of the end, there's still potentially quite a long way for this party gate to go.

hello this is bbc news with anita mcveigh. the headlines: the metropolitan police recommends 20 fines should initially be issued over downing street parties that breached coronavirus lockdown rules, but it says it won't be naming the individuals involved. the queen hasjoined other members of the royal family at a thanksgiving service to honour prince philip's life — she arrived at westminster abbey alongside prince andrew. face—to—face talks to try to end the war in ukraine resume in istanbul. turkey's president erdogan says the meeting must yield results. unacceptable and inexcusable — hollywood star will smith says sorry to comedian chris rock for slapping him at the oscars. a couple of pieces of news thatjust came into us within the last 30

minutes. it concerns p and 0 and another of their ferries which the maritime and coastguard agency has said has been detained due to failure and vessel documentation, crew familiarisation and training. this refers to the pride of kent specifically, so in addition to those points, they say emergency equipment was not functioning properly, indicating a failure of the implementation of the safety management system. this is the second piano ferry since the company sacked 800 workers without consultation and brought in agency staff to come under this kind of sanction from the maritime and coastguard agency, which carry out a general inspection. it says it has advised p and 0 to invite them back once they have addressed the issues concerned. another piece of news coming into us is that the transport secretary, grant shapps, has announced that the government is

marking the first ever detention of the super yachts in uk waters. this is in relation to the sanctions brought against russia over its war in ukraine. we are told that this particular yacht is owned by a russian businessman. grant shapps announcing this is the first—ever detention of a super what's —— superyacht in uk waters. peace talks between delegations from ukraine and russia are under way in turkey, with the ukrainian side pushing for a ceasefire. it's the first meeting between the two sides in two weeks, but hopes of a breakthrough at the negotiations in istanbul remain low. meanwhile, the foreign office says it's very concerned by the claim that the russian billionaire, roman abramovich — had symptoms of a suspected poisoning after talks at earlier this month to try to resolve the conflict with ukraine. mr abramovich has been pictured at this morning's talks in turkey. with all the latest on those talks, tom bateman was speaking

to my colleague ben brown from istanbul what's happening in president erdogan's working office here in istanbul behind me is that the delegations, after lining up face to face across the table, have begun talking. that's within the last hour. previous to that, the two heads the two key presidential advisers to mr zelensky. mr putin had a private meeting, one on one. now it's the full talks themselves. but i think as you hint at ben, you know, we've been here before in turkey. it was only two and a half weeks ago that a higher level of delegates were in the south of the country in antalya, and that was the russian and ukrainian foreign ministers. now those talks broke up at the time, then after about 90 minutes with no outcome at all. in fact, recriminations really and a pretty irritable press conference, at least from sergei lavrov, in fact, recriminations really and a pretty irritable press conference, at least from sergei lavrov, in fact, recriminations really and a pretty irritable press conference, at least from sergei lavrov, the russian foreign minister, at the time.

so i think that's really kept a lid on expectations here, despite the fact that president erdogan is hosting these talks, spoke to the two delegations before they began to their applause, talked about a historic duty to try and reach some kind of agreement, some kind of deal. he's spoken about a ceasefire to vladimir putin. i think that's a lofty expectation that many others simply don't share, at least from this round of talks. and we've had dmytro kuleba, the foreign minister, saying in the last couple of hours that he expects and hopes that there can be some address of the humanitarian issues here, but it seems not much more than that. and i gather the foreign minister you just mentioned there has also been saying that people delegates shouldn't eat and drink there at those talks following the reports that roman abramovich may have been poisoned at an earlier round of peace talks. yeah, absolutely. i mean, you werejust hearing from the ukrainian ambassador to london there weren't

you about the report yesterday from the bellingcat investigative website suggesting that mr abramovich and two of the ukrainian delegates may have suffered the symptoms of poisoning earlier this month after a meeting in kyiv. a fair bit of doubt being cast on all of that by an american official and also to some extent by the ukrainian president's office. one of the delegates reportedly saying the story was false. but yeah, mr celebre saying in an interview to the ukrainian media that anyone negotiating with russia shouldn't eat or drink anything shouldn't touch surfaces. he did go on to say, though that suggests that this was probably some kind of rumour and that everyone at the moment was looking for what he described as a sensational story. so i think a few a bit of salt being thrown on this from various quarters. but of course, mr abramovich is in the room and that is supporting these claims that he has been quite actively involved in the mediation over the course of the last few weeks. he's with president erdogan's spokesman, who has been instrumental

in fact in coordinating some of the contacts between the two sides. john is at those talks in istanbul on rain. we are going to return to a couple of the stories we have been talking about in the last few minutes. talking about in the last few minutes. let's get some reaction from labour's shadow transport secretary, louise haigh. ido want i do want to begin with the partygate i do want to begin with the pa rtygate story, i do want to begin with the partygate story, the metropolitan police recommending that 25 should be initially issued over the downing street party is the pro—coronavirus rules. this confirms for the first time that rules were broken, the police say. what do you think the consequences of that should be for borisjohnson? this consequences of that should be for boris johnson?— consequences of that should be for borisjohnson?— consequences of that should be for boris johnson? this has been such a sor saua boris johnson? this has been such a sorry saga for _ boris johnson? this has been such a sorry saga for boris _ boris johnson? this has been such a sorry saga for boris johnson - boris johnson? this has been such a sorry saga for boris johnson and - boris johnson? this has been such a sorry saga for boris johnson and our| sorry saga for borisjohnson and our

country. first he claimed that no party took place, then that all the rules were followed. we now know that it's a complete lie. borisjohnson sets the culture in downing street that has led to least 20 individuals breaking the law. our position hasn't changed. this is a matter of trust and leadership and i don't think that the man who set the rules and asked the british people to make unimaginable sacrifices, and then has been found to repeatedly flout them can remain in post. he should resign. them can remain in post. he should resin. , ., ,, ., ., ,, resign. does the war in ukraine make a difference — resign. does the war in ukraine make a difference to _ resign. does the war in ukraine make a difference to what _ resign. does the war in ukraine make a difference to what is _ resign. does the war in ukraine make a difference to what is going - resign. does the war in ukraine make a difference to what is going on - a difference to what is going on politically here? a number of conservative mps who had handed in a letter of no confidence in the prime minister to the 1922 committee withdrew their letters when the war began. psi withdrew their letters when the war be . an. �* . withdrew their letters when the war bean. . ., ., ., withdrew their letters when the war bean. ., ., ., ., ., ., began. at a moment of international crisis we need _

began. at a moment of international crisis we need to _ began. at a moment of international crisis we need to have _ began. at a moment of international crisis we need to have faith - began. at a moment of international crisis we need to have faith in - began. at a moment of international crisis we need to have faith in our. leaders that they will behave in the best interests of the country. and with integrity. i think boris johnson has shown that he is incapable of meeting those standards of public office. i think tory mps should reflect very carefully on the image that we want to present to the rest of the world because, quite frankly, the prime minister laughing in public spaces while we were all following the rules is not something that i think we can be proud of. ferrite that i think we can be proud of. we have just received some copy from the prime minister's official spokesman. i will read that. downing street has denied that borisjohnson misled the house of commons when he told mps that covid regulations had not been broken in number ten, the spokesman said that at all times he has set out his understanding of events and asked if the prime minister would apologise now that police had concluded the law had been broken, the spokesman said he

would have more to say when the investigation was concluded. i appreciate your just tearing investigation was concluded. i appreciate yourjust tearing up a can you give us your response? it can you give us your response? it demonstrates once again that the only thing that borisjohnson cares about is himself and hisjob. he quite clearly misled the house and the british public when he first of all claimed that he didn't attend any parties, then when he was —— it was that he said that all rules were followed. we now know at least 20 times the law was broken. it is hard to imagine a more serious situation than the prime minister's downing street paying fines 20 separate occasions. any other prime minister at any other point in our history would have had the decency to resign by now. do would have had the decency to resign b now. , ., would have had the decency to resign b now. ,, ,, would have had the decency to resign b now. ,, ., , would have had the decency to resign b now. ~' . , ., would have had the decency to resign b now. ,, ~' ., , ., ., by now. do you think any of the heat has one by now. do you think any of the heat has gone out — by now. do you think any of the heat has gone out of _ by now. do you think any of the heat has gone out of this _ by now. do you think any of the heat has gone out of this with _ has gone out of this with constituents? clearly before the war in ukraine, this was making the

headlines pretty much every day, wasn't it? i wonder if some of the heat has gone out of it with the public? i heat has gone out of it with the ublic? ~' , ., , heat has gone out of it with the ublic? ,, , ., , ., ., , public? i think people are really concerned _ public? i think people are really concerned about _ public? i think people are really concerned about the _ public? i think people are really concerned about the war - public? i think people are really concerned about the war in - public? i think people are really - concerned about the war in ukraine, but primarily about the cost of living crisis about to engulf this country, which the tories are doing nothing about. those are the things they are raising with me, but of course people still want to prime minister that they can trust and respect and people's views on that have not changed. the government would say it — have not changed. the government would say it is _ have not changed. the government would say it is doing _ have not changed. the government would say it is doing something - would say it is doing something about the cost of living crisis, but i want to move on to the question of p80. a second ferry inspected by the p&0. a second ferry inspected by the maritime and coastguard agency and found wanting. the pride of kent is in this instance held back on paperwork, crew training and emergency equipment not functioning, either. what are your concerns are in the future of the group. p&0

responded by saying if it was to rehire the 800 staff it sacked without consultation it would go out of business. what do you want p&0 to do at this stage? clearly it has mishandled this, but what do you think they should do next? thea;r mishandled this, but what do you think they should do next? they need to abide by the _ think they should do next? they need to abide by the law. _ think they should do next? they need to abide by the law. british _ think they should do next? they need to abide by the law. british law- to abide by the law. british law clearly states that if they need to make those kind of redundancies they need to consult the workforce. we need to consult the workforce. we need to consult the workforce. we need to reinstate those workers immediately on the same terms and conditions so they can then talk to them about the future. if their ships are being detained because they are being crewed by inexperienced staff that make the vessel unsafe to sail it is not sustainable for them to pursue this model. the government had made clear that there will apply the minimum wage on these routes, meaning p&0

will need to think again. we need to see more employment loopholes closed so that no business can ever look at the way that p&0 have behaved and think that they can come to this country and treats british workers with the contempt that they have. did you buy this idea that they might go out of business if they have to rehire the 800 people die sacked? it have to rehire the 800 people die sacked? . . ~ , have to rehire the 800 people die sacked? , , ,, , ., sacked? it seems unlikely that it would no sacked? it seems unlikely that it would go out _ sacked? it seems unlikely that it would go out of _ sacked? it seems unlikely that it would go out of business - sacked? it seems unlikely that it i would go out of business overnight if they kept the workforce that they had on their payrolljust a couple of weeks ago. if that is the case then p&0 have run the business into an unsustainable position. he clearly should resign, because he brazenly admits at the house of commons last week at that he flouted the law of this country. p&0 have inflicted enormous damage on their

brands and it is difficult to see how they will recover from the disgraceful way they have behaved. the government needs to step in and make sure we save these 800 workers and close the loopholes in the law to make sure this never happens again. to make sure this never happens aaain. . ~' ,, to make sure this never happens aaain. . ~' , to make sure this never happens aaain. . , . ., again. thank you very much for your time today- — the actor will smith has issued a full apology to the comedian chris rock for slapping him during the oscars awards ceremony. the on—stage violence — prompted by a joke about the star's wife — was seen live by millions of people around the world. our correspondent, david willis, reports. to do what we do, you've got to be able to take abuse, you've got to be able to have people talk crazy about you. will smith issued a tearful apology both to the academy and his fellow nominees on sunday night. but of one man, there was no mention. jada, i love you. gi jane 2, can't wait to see it. all right? chris rock's joke about smith's wife's hair loss led to her husband storming the stage and this slap

across the face. oh, wow! as a stunned, star—studded audience looked on, the actor proceeded to hurl profanity—laden abuse from his seat. keep my wife's name out of your... sound dips. ..mouth. i'm going to. nearly 24 hours after the academy awards got under way here, came a direct apology to chris rock. posting on instagram, will smith said he was wrong and out of line. "violence in all its forms is poisonous and destructive," he wrote. "my behaviour at last night's academy awards was unacceptable and inexcusable." now at this point, i can only laugh. as you all know, i've been struggling with alopecia. smith also mentioned his wife's highly public battle with hair loss, saying a joke about her medical condition was too much for him to bear. his behaviour on what should have been one of the best nights of his life has been condemned

by the academy and an inquiry is under way, which could lead to him being censured or expelled. after dancing the night away, he'll have awoken to the collective sense of shock and disbelief here over what happened on sunday night. the slap that was seen around the world is unlikely to cost him his oscar but there's a growing feeling that such a highly public act of violence cannot go unpublished. david willis, bbc news, los angeles. rape convictions are at an all—time low in england and wales, despite more people reporting than ever before. only 1% of reported rapes result in a conviction. bbc panorama has been on the front line with derbyshire police to investigate why. the programme includes the story of sisters, alex and chyann, whose allegations of abuse by their father was rejected three times by the crown prosecution service, before he was finally prosecuted. the cps said it is working with police nationwide

to transform the way these cases are handled.rebecca coxon reports you've made a report of sexual offending to derbyshire police. sisters alex and shayan were raped by their father as children. for the past 11 years, they have been trying to get him charged. this letter is to explain to you why i reluctantly decided that the case should not be charged. their case has been rejected three times. a significant weakness is that when your sister you've made a report of sexual offending to derbyshire police. a significant weakness is that when your sister alleged abuse in 2011, you denied that you'd been abused yourself and indeed said that your sister was lying. i didn't really get a chance to be a kid like i've had to grow up quite quickly. when alex was 11 years old in 2011, she did not back up her sister's allegations when questioned by the police. now 22, she says she lied because she thought the abuse was normal. but the denial created a rift between the sisters. it does make having a relationship

with each other quite difficult because there's just always, it's always in the back of my mind that that happened. i think you think i think worse of you than i actually do. i think it's because i have a lot of guilt. myself, i did when i was younger. i just want to say i'm sorry. it was not the police that rejected their case. it was the crown prosecution service which said a jury would struggle to convict. campaigners say this is part of a worrying trend. but alex and shayan did not give up hope of getting justice. they requested a legal review and their father was finally charged. however, they then faced further delays, partly due to the pandemic. it was supposed to be in court last october. then march.

then now, january, as well as all of the appeals we had to go through, it's just it couldn't take it any longer. in early 2022, the jury reached a verdict after deliberating for an hour and a half. police detective brett turner called alex with the outcome. ijust spoke to the barrister, . and she says it will be 25 years plus, she would have thought so a good sentence _ and what he deserves. yeah, yeah. i know it's took a long time, - but you've been believed at last. yeah, we're really happy to hear it. obviously, we believed you all along, but he'sl gone straight to prison. so that's that. in england and wales, just 1% of reported rapes result in a conviction. so i wasn't expecting it. i was doing the research on how many cases actually get convicted, it doesn't seem hopeful, but all 14 charges, all 12jury members.

i'm part of the 1%. i've not got the court case looming any more. i'll never get over it. well, i can start moving on now. definitely. alex and shayan's father was sentenced to 40 years, four years after theirjoint statement and 11 years after shayan first reported him. it was a long wait forjustice. details of organisations offering information and support with child sexual abuse and sexual violence are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline, or you can call forfree, at any time to hear recorded information on 0800 077 077.

anoosheh ashoori, the british iranian man who was freed from prison in tehran earlier this month, says he's pleased to finally be back with his family in the uk, but cannot understand why it didn't happen sooner. he'd been held in iran since 2017 on spying charges, and was released alongside nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, after the uk settled a military debt with iran. he's been speaking to our diplomatic correspondent, caroline hawley. well done, well done. i still can't believe sometimes that i am back. like when i was in my cell, i used to pinch myself, but then i would wake up to the reality of being in my cell. well done, well done. here, it is the other way round. i am trying to pinch myself that this is the reality and i don't want to wake up. it's quite challenging. it is going to need a lot of effort from me to get back to my normal life.

so these are them? yes, my diaries. nearly 3,000 pages. some were not returned. well, they were returned. i had to tear them up. this starts from day one, which i wrote when i was actually taken to the prison. because it was fresh in my mind, i could write from day one. this is all through my time at the interrogation centre. 13th august 2017, my arrest, how i was arrested, and my first day. he drew a sketch of one of the cells. he attempted several times to take his own life.

there are people there like zombies. theyjust go back and forth. because of what they have been through? yes. but i know that i am innocent. i have ended up in that hell. so i reason with myself that the others, also, they could be innocent. and when you get to know them, and you get to know about their lives, with their families, you will see that many of them are innocent. unfortunately, they are stuck there. can you describe that hell for us? i know in your cell you had bedbugs, cockroaches, there were rats. what was it like? these are all the physical things you are confronting every day and night. but the more painful side of it is when you see the suffering of the people in the cells.

what you cannot see, the invisible part of it, are the shrapnels that have hit the members of the families, their wives, their children. and sherry, your life, the children's lives, were completely hijacked by what happened? absolutely, absolutely. i think we, for almost five years, we have been so focused on continuing this fight, and trying to get his name out there, fighting on so many fronts at the same time, and also, trying to earn a living. it was hell. it's been a living hell, really. what did you learn about yourself? resilience. you really learn how to be resilient, because you have so many challenges from the time that you get up.

now it's time for a look at the weather with darren. hello there, it's a colder day today, the highest temperatures where we're seeing the best of the sunshine across more western parts of the uk, but things are going to get much colder. the really cold air at the moment is sitting to the north of scotland, but that will sweep down across the whole of the country as we get these northerly winds bringing down arctic air. and that means some sleet and snow quite widely, although no great amounts. these are the temperatures towards the end of the afternoon, and it's particularly chilly across northern parts of scotland, where we've got that weather fronts cold air coming in. behind that, that weather front is bringing this band of thicker cloud and rain, some sleet and snow in there as well. and that continues to push its way down across scotland into northern parts of england, perhaps northern ireland. following on from that, some snow and some ice in northern areas of scotland. certainly a frosty conditions here later on in the night, a little bit chilly across some parts of england and wales, where we have some breaks in the cloud that lead to some mist and fog, which will slowly lift tomorrow morning, looks quite cloudy for many, perhaps some sunshine

in the southwest and a few showers. there's our main band of wet weather on the weather front that should cheer up. in northern ireland, wet weather pushes down through wales, the midlands, northern england, some sleet and snow in the pennines, the peak district and some sunshine and wintry showers following into scotland, perhaps the north east of england later and in five degrees here last of any mild areas in the south. but that wet weather continues southwards overnight, turns to sleet and snow could be a dusting of snow even across some southern parts of england. a wintry start to thursday morning with a widespread frost and some icy patches. this is the last of the sleet and snow to clear the south east corner on thursday. and then we've got sunshine and wintry showers, hail, sleet and snow. they'll get driven towards the west on these rather strong and gusty winds as well. and this is the day where it's going to feel particularly chilly in the wind as well. temperatures, perhaps in the eastern side of the uk, only six or seven degrees. but when you factor in the stronger winds that we'll have here probably feel more like two or three degrees, quite a contrast from what we've seen over the last couple of weeks. things start to calm down a bit.

i think by the end of the week, this high pressure tending to push in from the atlantic, reducing the strength of the wind won't be as windy, but we'll start with a widespread frost on friday. some icy patches, still a few more wintry showers coming in, especially to eastern areas. then we'll see the cloud thickening in scotland, some rain, sleet and some snow over the hills as well. not quite so cold, i think, on friday, nor indeed over the weekend.

20 fines are to be issued, as part of the police inquiry into parties held in government buildings — breaking covid rules. the metropolitan police says it won't be naming the individuals fined; there are likely to be fixed penalty notices to come. number 10 says boris johnson number 10 says borisjohnson has not received a fine yet, but opposition parties have renewed calls for him to resign. ukraine says its top priority is to negotiate a ceasefire as a latest round of peace talks begins. delegates from both sides are meeting in istanbul, more than a month after russia invaded ukraine. as president zelensky describes the situation in mariupol a 'crime against humanity�* — it's hoped more residents will be evacuated today.

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