this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. israeli police have beaten mourners at the funeral of the aljazeera reporter shireen abu aqla. we speak to a journalist who was with her when she was killed. we just had to move back very quickly because the mourners were trying to carry the coffin through the gates out the hospital. the border police are directly outside. and now, we're seeing confrontations here. the us defence secretary calls for an immediate ceasefire in ukraine in his first conversation with his russian counterpart since the invasion. the bbc crew runs for cover

as russian forces bombard an area near the south—eastern ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia. north korea says its first outbreak of covid is spreading fast, with one fatality and nearly 200,000 people in quarantine. and drought and devasatation across east africa — the un says more must be done to save lives. the world's attention is wholly focused on ukraine, which is a terrible crisis, but the suffering that we've seen here — and i've been in both places — has no equal. # i'm up in space, man... and something strange is going on at eurovision — bookmakers are predicting a rare good result for the uk. but will it be enough to stop the favourites, ukraine?

hello, thanks for joining hello, thanks forjoining us. there's been widespread international condemnation of police in israel for their use of force at the funeral of the aljazeera journalist, shireen abu akleh. pall bearers injerusalem were among those who were jostled, beaten, and kicked. officers said stones and bottles were thrown at them. the white house described pictures of israeli police charging at palestinians carrying the coffin as deeply disturbing. shireen abu aqla was shot dead in the occupied west bank on wednesday. from jerusalem, here's tom bateman. shireen abu akleh was one of the best—known voices to palestinians. now in death, a national symbol. but grief for a revered reporter was to turn to fear and panic for the mourners. israel's security forces had entered

the hospital gates as palestinians tried to walk the coffin out. the police fired stun grenades and pushed the crowd back. many rush for cover inside. we've had complete chaos with people trying to get inside. i saw a woman with a very young baby, a patient, who was here at the hospital, caught in the middle of a huge crowd, trying to get inside. and even the pallbearers had to retreat. as police kicked and beat them with batons. and the coffin slipped to the ground. the force says it acted to stop what it called incitement and stone throwing. shireen abu akleh was shot in the head covering an arrest raid by israel's army. reporters on the scene said the gunfire came from the soldiers

but israel maintains palestinian gunmen may have fired the fatal shot. but for her loved ones, it was time to say a final goodbye. at her christian funeral mass, eulogies to a life of purpose. and outside one ofjerusalem's biggest outpourings of palestinian grief in decades. tens of thousands wound their way around the old city's walls. they marked yet another death in a conflict where it is almost agonisingly routine, but which has brought the world's spotlight back and remembered a life that should never have ended this way. tom bateman, bbc news, jerusalem. on that, i spoke earlier with shatha hanaysheh, who works for website ultra palestine. she is the journalist who was with shireen injenin when she died.

she told me the bullets that hit shireen were coming from the direction of israeli solciers in cars. from the top, the place, the cars of the israeli soldier standing there. and we saw the soldiers. and if the palestinians were shooting, when they thought that we were journalists, why they did not stop? because we are palestinian, too. why did they not stop? is there any explanation though as to why the israelis would've shot and targeted you, given you were clearly marked as journalists? i think there is a message from that. they don't want us... in the last months, jenin

camp was in all news around the world, notjust in palestine, because there is a lot of things happening there. from the ahe arresting of people, of guys and killing guys, all the journalists from all around the world and i saw them, notjust me, the palestinian, who lives injenin now, who lives in injerusalem, from ramallah came to camp and from other countries, they come tojenin to speak about what happened injenin. they sent they don't will us to speak — and this was a clear message from them. the israeli prime minister, naftali bennet, has accused

of throwing blame to israel without any basis, but this will obviously be a wider area for investigation. i just ask you finally, and they did not go to the funeral today and wish there was more trouble, he went to the hospital to pay respects. how will you remember shireen and how are you today? shireen, when i was a young child, i saw her on television and she was my idol. i grew up thinking that i will one day be a journalist like shireen. and this is the heartache, that i remember the one who was teaching us journalism, the one who was my idol, killed next to me, it was very hard. i cannot understand why all this happened. she was very kind.

i remember the first time i met her in someplace that we were going to work, to do ourjob as journalists, and when i got to speak with her, i thought, "i am a young journalist and she is big journalist, how will she speak with me?" and she was very kind with me. she smiled, she spoked with me and asked me about myjob. she was very kind. and every time we met in events or anything, she spoke with me and asked me about myself. and for our last day out, the last moments, we saw shireen in the morning before we went to what happened. she was very happy. she told us "good morning" with a big smile.

she was playing with her hair, and she is someone who loved to live. and in killing her, they ended a beautiful and a great person. let's move to the situation in ukraine now. 79 days into the war and russian troops are intensifying their attacks in parts of the south—east, which are now seeing some of the heaviest fighting. with the port city of mariupol almost entirely under russian control, theirforces have been pushing north and west, towards zaporizhzhia — a city still in ukrainian hands — where many civilians have sought refuge. 0ur correspondent laura bicker, and camera journalist, julie ritson, have been to the front line, arriving, as russia attacked. it started with a low rumble and plumes of black smoke.

we'd barely arrived when the barrage began. this small factory took the first hit. but the russians weren't done. explosions get down! the thundering of shells is a new deadly dawn chorus for this once sleepy hamlet. the children have mostly fled to safety. 0thers, although shaken, are determined to hold on to what they know, even while their neighbours�* house is burning. translation: i saw some smoke and decided to have a look. - yesterday evening, i came down and saw that one. two houses down, there's no roof there any more. and today, this one got hit. the rest of the villagers are along here, says the captain. with no electricity, meals

are cooked outside — when it's safe. but the blasts have forced them underground. however hard it may be to stay, their presence has become an act of defiance. translation: we're waiting for victory. i we want all our children, our grandchildren, to come back home, and we want somewhere to come back to. we want our home to stay unscathed, and notjust ours, but for all the people that had to leave. i was told this building was intact this morning, which gives you an idea of kind of the intensity of shelling this village is facing. the ukrainians have built up their forces, taking forces from elsewhere in the country and put them here, to keep the russians at bay. when i asked how far the russians will come north, the answer i got was "as far as we let them". and this invasion is personal to the local ukrainian force. translation: in our battalions, there are many people _

whose homes and relatives are in the occupied territories. they are very determined, and all they're waiting for is an order to advance, to come back to their home villages, towns and districts. there are no military targets here in these tree—lined streets, just much—prized family homes. the volley of shells just missed this house. oh, yeah, that has been a direct hit. it's hard to comprehend just how close this war has come. translation: i was under the shed there when i heard the shots - and ran into the cellar. even as thoughts of a clear—up begin, the bombardment continues, shattering lives one barrage at a time. distant explosions laura bicker, bbc news, near zaporizhzhia. a russian energy supplier says it will suspend deliveries of electricity to finland from saturday, a day after the country said it would apply to join nato.

the russian—owned company, rao nordic, said it had not been paid for previous deliveries. it did not say whether this was due to the impact of sanctions. the finnish power operator said russia provided 10% of finland's electricity, and this could be replaced with alternative sources. on the rwanda policy mounted by the uk government to remove asylum—seekers who cross illegally by small boats across the channel into the uk and other means, it's looking like 50 migrants have been notified of removal to rwanda, so 50 migrants have been told that the uk government is to move them. this is been revealed in an interview with the daily mail newspaper, the home office said it would start to inform the first planned to send to rwanda, including some people... they have

7-14 including some people... they have 7—14 days to lodge objections. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: spain's entry rehearse in turin as fans countdown the hours until the eurovision song contest begins in italy. the pope was shot, the pope will live — that's the essence of the appalling news from rome this afternoon, that, as an italian television commentator put it, "terrorism had come to the vatican." the man they called the butcher of lyon, klaus barbie, went on trial today in the french town where he was the gestapo chief in the second world war. winnie mandela never looked like a woman just sentenced to six years injail. the judge told mrs mandela there was no indication she felt even the slightest remorse.

the chinese government has called for an all—out effort to help - the victims of a powerful. earthquake, the worst to hit the country in 30 years. the computer deep blue has tonight triumphed over the world chess champion, gary kasparov. it's the first time a machine has defeated a reigning world champion in a classical chess match. america's first legal same—sex marriages have been taking place in massachusetts. god bless america! cheering this is bbc news, the latest headlines... israeli police have beaten mourners carrying the coffin of the aljazeera reporter shireen abu aqla, whose killing in the occupied west bank has caused a surge of anger. the russian and us defence secretaries have spoken for the first time since moscow's invasion of ukraine in february.

the ukrainian city of dnipro has been the target of russian missiles in recent weeks. it's a strategic and logistical hub of some one million people, located in the country's centre—east. the city's tough—talking mayor, borys filatov, was once an opponent of president volodymyr zelensky. today, the formerjournalist and businessman is leading the war effort in his own city. lyce doucet caught up with mayor filatov as he distributed donated cars to ukraine's armed forces. translation: these cars | are the lifeblood of the war. they're used for speedy supply of ammunition, generators, fuel, even food. we need thousands of these. we're looking for them all over the world. volunteers bring them, we repair them. they're not armoured — these vehicles are used for quick manoeuvres. these sorts of cars were first used in conflicts in syria. it's a hit—and—run attack, a way of waging the war. they drive up with a mortar inside, they shoot, then leave immediately. russians don't even understand where it came from. they have an enormous army, lots of weapons.

that's why i absolutely agree with president zelensky and his military command. as our defence minister once said, "ukraine needs three things — weapons, weapons, weapons. " before the war, you were very critical of president zelensky. is he doing a good job now? translation: | know - what you're talking about. we used to be in opposition to each other. now is not the time for quarrelling, everyone has to come together to face horrible russian aggression, including former political opponents. he is doing a really greatjob, he's our president. he's a brave leader. he was able to inspire the world. our former relationship and political preferences don't matter. we must understand this is not a war for independence and sovereignty, but a war for the physical survival of the nation. they want to destroy us — that's why we have no right for internal squabbles. we need to be like a fist. do you think that dnipro is a target for the russians? that they could intensify

their attacks here? translation: as it is, - we have attacks here every day. they are using missiles every day, so we are a target. i always say that the russians will stop where we stop them. a day after admitting that it's dealing with a covid outbreak, north korea has acknowledged the first deaths from the disease. the official news agency said six people died after suffering a fever with one testing positive for omicron. it said more than 180,000 people were being isolated and treated. so, how serious an outbreak is this? i've been discussing with dr peter hotez, vaccine sceintist from baylor college of medicine in houston. i think there is a lot of vulnerability, when, as you rightly point out that, they are unvaccinated, but also, the level of malnourishment is extremely high in north korea, particularly in the rural areas. and we know that viral infections affect people disproportionately in those with underlying malnutrition, so that something

that is working against them. they've not really been managing, having to manage covid as much as other countries because of their extreme isolation. i think this new variant that's so highly transmissible, the ba2 and the ba212 that probably got in across the border from china or elsewhere, and so it's going to race through this very vulnerable population, they don't have the testing in place, they likely do not have anything near the icu intensive care unit beds that are required, so this is a humanitarian tragedy waiting to happen, unfortunately. and if north korea officially say six people have died, with more than 180,000 people being isolated, is it possible to work out, you know, how quickly those numbers can escalate? what the true numbers at risk might be at the moment? well, they are saying that they have 400,000 individuals with fever, and we know that a significant percentage of individuals with covid—i9 are asymptomatic — without symptoms — so the numbers are quite high.

this is going to race through the population. they really only have one option — they've got to find a way to bring in vaccines and to rapidly vaccinate the population. the good news is there is a lot of vaccine available, for instance, the vaccine that we have helped develop in india, there is more than 100 million doses available, it can easily be brought into the north korea in rapid succession and vaccinate the 25 million people relatively quickly, so it is in their hands to be able to manage this. i think the world is willing to provide vaccine doses, i think that's the only way they are going to have any success at all at managing this. the un has warned that world is not paying enough attention to crises beyond the war in ukraine. the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs has urged the international community not to ignore the devastating drought in east africa. according to the un, 20 million people in the region

are at risk of severe hunger. on that, we spoke earlier to michael dunford, regional director for east africa of the united nations world food programme. this is really one of the worst droughts that we've seen in the region in history, certainly the driest of the region has been in a0 years. we've had three failed rains, we're desperately waiting on the current rains to deliver, and it looks as though they will underperform. we're even hearing reports that the next rainy season may be a failure. we have a crisis on our hands, and, as martin griffiths and others have said, we need the world to respond. the world food programme, other humanitarian actors have the capacity to meet the needs of the population only if we receive the funding required and we receive it now. there are estimated up to 20 million people who will be impacted, and almost 5.7 million children included in this number. so if we do not act,

if we do not launch the feeding programmes, the nutrition programmes and meet their livelihood needs now, we're going to have a worsening crisis on our hands, populations will die. we have a real risk of famine. we have records now that to prove that the frequency and the severity of droughts is increasing, equally in south sudan, as we speak, we have had three of the worst flooding seasons and we're expecting a similar season this year, displacing hundreds of thousands of people and creating climate conflict in areas that have been affected. this drought is also coming at the worst possible time because there are conflicts in the region, there's displacement, it's off the back of the covid crisis, and now we're seeing the crisis in ukraine accelerating the shock economically across the region. these people have been

as resilient as possible, they've been able to hang on — but unfortunately after three failed rains and with a fourth now looking as though it will fail, they have simply exhausted every think that they have. they've been forced from their homes, they've lost their livelihoods, they've lost their livestock, we estimate almost three million livestock have died over this drought. they have nothing left. they're relying on the world food programme and other humanitarian actors to respond. and we can only do this provided we get the funding from the international community. this weekend, europe's glitziest pop fest — the eurovision song contest — will celebrate its 66th year. ukraine is odds—on favourite to win, and both belarus and russia have been banned. the bbc�*s viktoriia zhuhan reports. # stefania... # filming a music video in the middle of a war zone, just weeks

after the russian troops withdraw. translation: there's - a constant feeling of stress. wherever you're in ukraine, the air raid sirens are nonstop. you never know where the next missile will hit. music this is ukraine's 2022 eurovision entry, the kalush orchestra. despite the russian invasion, the devastation and the death toll, lead singer oleg psyuk says they're even more determined to win. translation: as the war started, i thought a lot about how - i could help my country. i've never served in the army, i've never fired a weapon. music but perhaps i could help in some other way. that's why i started volunteering, and we will represent ukraine at eurovision. it's a huge responsibility. music

applause but not all of the band are going to eurovision. translation: on the first day of the war, i decided to join - up to defend ukraine. for me, this was more important than the band. we were trained in military tactics, first aid, and weapons. then, straight away, we put it into practice. the hardest thing to come to terms with was being prepared to die for my country, for the unity of my country. we arejust we are just hearing news from new zealand that jacinda ardern, new zealand's prime minister, has tested positive for covid—19. she has posted on instagram. more on that

coming up with all our news. don't go away, this is bbc news. goodbye for now. hello there. we had some contrasting weather conditions on friday across the country. it was rather cool and breezy at times across scotland and northeast england, as depicted by this weather watcher in moray. in fact, in one or two spots, temperature struggled to climb into double figures. but it was a different story after a rather grey start across england and wales. the cloud broke up and we saw temperatures peaking in the london area by the middle of the afternoon of 21 celsius. now, clear skies will continue to dominate the weather story to start off our weekend. we will see a little more in the way of cloud, producing a few scattered showers into the far northwest of the great glen, but elsewhere, it's a relatively mild start to the day, and, yes, there will be some early morning sunshine for many. out to the west, there will be a little bit of early morning

patchy mist and low fog. that's because we've got high—pressure building, winds falling light. but i just want to draw your attention to these showers down into the southwest arriving later on in the day. so, that early mist will lift away, a lot of sunshine pretty much throughout the day. we could just see a little more in the way of coastal cloud out towards the far northwest. top temperatures, though, warmer than friday in scotland, highs of 11—18 celsius. we could see 22—23 celsius somewhere across southeast england. that's 73 fahrenheit. now, into the evening, though, those showers will arrive through the southwest across wales pushing their way into central and southern england. there will be some sharp thundery downpours mixed in there as well as those showers move through during the early hours of sunday. they will take their time to clear away as well. some running down through the channel coast, some moving up through wales, stretching up into northern england and scotland for the second half of the weekend. so a slightly different feel to the weather story. still warm where you keep the sunshine, highs again of 23 celsius.

there will be further showers to come through sunday evening into the early hours of monday. if anything, more widespread sharp showers, possibly still thundery, moving their way up to scotland, and that is because as we go through into next week, we continue to see the risk of some low—pressure systems pushing in off the atlantic. always sitting out to the west, so the further east you are, it should stay largely fine and dry. but a little more unsettled, particularly the further north and west, warmer in the south with temperatures once again into the low 20s.

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