this is bbc news — welcome if you're watching here in the uk or around the globe. i'm shaun ley. our top stories uk prime minister rishi sunak is in germany to urge world leaders to "double down" on military support for ukraine in a speech in munich mr sunak will also meet with european commission president, ursula von der leyen, on the sidelines of the conference to discuss northern ireland's post—brexit trading arrangement. rescue teams pull three people out alive, from under collapsed buildings in turkey — almost two weeks after the quakes that killed nearly 46 thousand people. a qatari consortium bids to buy manchester united — after a rival offer

from a british business. and — there's been an increase in people taking up detectoring in the british countryside — but should their discoveries be finders keepers? hello and welcome to bbc news. next week will mark the one year anniversary of russia's invasion of ukraine. us president biden is scheduled to give a speech on tuesday in neighbouring poland — on the same day that vladimir putin is due to give an address in moscow. ukraine's president zelensky has again called on western allies to speed up their delivery of weapons — warning that delays would cost lives. it all comes as the munich security conference is underway with calls

for nato to give kyiv long term security assurances. rishi sunak will address the conference, telling western countries they need to redouble their military support for ukraine. he'll also tell delegates that kyiv needs security guarantees even after the war has ended. our correspondentjenny hill spoke to me earlier about the general message coming from world leaders in munich. we've heard world leader after world leader after senior diplomat, come out and express their continuing support for ukraine, their desire to keep sending that support, following president zelensky�*s appeal to leaders here. he once again urged them to keep sending weapons and to do it as quickly as possible. i suppose that most

of the leaders here are struggling to agree to a greater or lesser extent, depending on the country they represent, with three dilemmas. first of all, how can they send more weapons to ukraine, without risking an escalation of this conflict. second, what is the public mood back home? what do their voters make of the current strategy? is public support starting to dwindle? it is a serious concern that the german chancellor, olaf scholz, and thirdly, how do they keep sending that military support, whilst safeguarding their own military capabilities at home? we have heard from various political leaders over recent weeks, but also here in germany, where military capabilities are not that strong. if you start sending all of your tanks to ukraine, does that leave you vulnerable in case the worst should happen? these are the tenor of the conversations that are going on. as you said at the beginning, broadly speaking, the message coming out

of this rather unique annual conference, at which world leaders, security experts and senior diplomats get together, is indeed one of continued support for ukraine. we are expecting to hear from the british prime minister, rishi sunak, in the next few hours. he, like many others, will say it is time to double down on that support. dr patrick bury is a defence specialist at the university of bath and a former nato analyst. he says there needs to be a message of general consensus from member states to deal with the war in ukraine. i think they are trying to prepare the ground, saying we are in this for the long haul and we are doubling down. there are two warnings. one, at home, and importantly, vladimir putin is trying to play along game. that is what wants to do. he wants to test european

and us economic and political will and see if he can last this out on a basic weapons production capacity and a lot of people throwing things at the problem and willing to take casualties, and we'll see if the west is. if you look at head of the us military, this will end with a negotiated outcome, more likely. no side is willing to go there at the moment. emmanuel macron has said the same today. down the line, that is how it will go. the final part of this is unity and trying to widen the struggles to explain to the global south, that this is values—based, it is a clash between an autocracy invading a democracy, and yes, everyone has made mistakes to get here, some more than others, of course, but if you fundamentally believe that someone shouldn't come into your house and tell you what to do, then you should believe in the righteousness of ukrainian resistance.

well meanwhile on the sidelines of the munich conference rishi sunak will also meet with the president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, to discuss the northern ireland protocol. (00v)the two leaders will hold talks as expectations rise that a deal the two leaders will hold talks as expectations rise that a deal will soon be reached on the post—brexit trading arrangement which has led to political deadlock in northern ireland. to political deadlock in northern earlier i spoke to our political correspondent tony bonsignore about what to expect... the concern, you guess, is that if too much gets out, it can x inflame either site and scupper an agreement. the noises we are getting are as positive as we have had for a long time, speculating mounting that this deal could happen within a

matter of days. both sides also stressing that there is work to do, notjust stressing that there is work to do, not just to get a stressing that there is work to do, notjust to get a deal but to sell it to the relevant party. in a notjust to get a deal but to sell it to the relevant party. in a sense there are two _ it to the relevant party. in a sense there are two audiences _ it to the relevant party. in a sense there are two audiences that - it to the relevant party. in a sense i there are two audiences that matter, one, the democratic unionists in northern ireland, who say they will not return to power—sharing and serve with sinn fein, unless there is a deal on this that they regard as satisfactory, but the other is conservative backbenchers. the prime minister talked about the democratic deficit, solving the democratic deficit, solving the democratic deficit, which is about the european court ofjustice and whether it gets the last say. james duddridge was saying he won't vote for anything that leaves the ecj role intact, he says it will start to unravel brexit. when you get to those kinds of passions, it is quite hard to see what the route through is. find what the route through is. and detail will _ what the route through is. and detail will be _ what the route through is. fific detail will be crucial. i what the route through is. fific detail will be crucial. i think there are two real sticking points. one is the european court of justice, and how far it still has a

role in northern ireland. what we might get here is some sort of fudge... might get here is some sort of fudue. .. ,, , might get here is some sort of fudue... ,, , ., might get here is some sort of fudge. . ._ what - might get here is some sort of fudge. . ._ what we | might get here is some sort of- fudge. . ._ what we might fudge... surely not! what we might aet fudge... surely not! what we might net for fudge... surely not! what we might get for example _ fudge... surely not! what we might get for example is, _ fudge... surely not! what we might get for example is, nominally, - fudge... surely not! what we might get for example is, nominally, the l get for example is, nominally, the european court ofjustice retains a role, but it is downplayed quite significantly. perhaps even more crucial here, is what happens, there is talk of green and red lanes, and the red lane would be assuming those goods go from northern ireland into the republic of ireland and into the eu single market, and the green lane would be for goods that are intended to stay in northern ireland, and they would be subject to much lighter touch regulation. but how much lighter touch? with their still be obstruction? this is absolutely key, because while the european union want to maintain the integrity of the single market, so does the uk, and wants to maintain the

integrity of the united kingdom. detail is absolutely crucial. it needs to be sold to the democratic unionist party, but also to mps. we are hearing that source a jar suggesting, and this is fluid, many moving parts, that we may have vote in the house of commons next week, if you have been missing those brexit moments, and that may well be a moment of truth, especially for those tory mps who were worried that this, in a way, waters down the brexit that they wanted. the death toll in the earthquake that struck turkey and syria nearly two weeks ago is now approaching a6,000. many international rescue teams have now left the region, but domestic teams are continuing to search through flattened buildings. the disaster has left millions homeless and sparked a huge international relief effort. caroline davies reports from southern turkey.

nearly two weeks on from the earthquake, there are still incredible stories of rescue missions that are happening, with people being pulled alive from the rubble. just yesterday, two more were pulled from the rubble in antakya, one a a 14—year—old boy and another a 34—year—old man, that, as he was rescued, was shown a video message from his parents, a video call where they showed him his newborn child. he has since been reunited with his wife and his child in hospital. but of course, these rescue missions are the exception at the moment. we know that the death toll has now risen to over 16,000 and that is potentially expected to rise further. the vast majority of those reported dead are within turkey and in syria, the number stands at 5800, or just over. but at the moment, the authorities haven't updated that tally for several days. three people, including a child were rescued alive from the rubble of a building in antakya in southern turkey on saturday— 296 hours after the earthquake.

search teams in southern turkey also found the body of the ghanaian international footballer, christian atsu, in the rubble of his home, the block of high—rise flats in the city of antakya. atsu played for the turkish side, hatayspor, and previously appeared in the english premier league with newcastle. he was 31. north korea fired one suspected long—range ballistic missile from the area around pyongyang airport, according to south korea's military. japan's coastguard says it landed in the water west of japan. initial analysis shows that that millie flew to an altitude of 5,700 misille flew to an altitude of 5,700 kilometres and covered a range of around 900 kilometres. the us military says it's completed its search for debris from the alleged chinese surveillance balloon shot down off the coast of south carolina two weeks ago. a statement said the debris recovered was being sent to an fbi laboratory for analysis. meanwhile, speaking at the munich security conference , china's top diplomat condemned

america's actions as a violation of international rules. translation: this is, i would say, observed, and hysterical. _ translation: this is, i would say, absurd and hysterical. _ this is 100% abuse of the use of force. it is a violation of of international customary practice, in particular, the chicago convention on international civil aviation. we do not accept this. across the globe there are many balloons in the sky from different countries. do you want to down each and every one of them? the death toll in new zealand from cyclone gabrielle has now risen to nine. the cyclone hit last sunday, causing widespread flooding on the north island, with high winds and torrential rain. prime minister chris hipkins warned that the total death toll was likely

to rise as crews made contact with hundreds of cut—off communities. five former police officers in memphis, tennessee have pleaded not guilty to second—degree murder — and other charges — in the case of tyre nichols. mr nichols, a young black man, died in hospital three days after being beaten in memphis last month. videos showed the officers repeatedly kicking and punching mr nichols after he'd fled a traffic stop. david willis has more details — his report contains some disturbing images. theirfaces masked, the five memphis police officers made their first court appearance as the mother of the young man they are accused of killing looked on. huddled before the judge, it was left to the lawyers dotted amongst them to enter pleas on their behalf. a plea of not guilty. urging patience, thejudge said

the case would take time to come together. but there are those, tyre nichols' family among them, who believe these brutal bodycam images speak for themselves. they capture what their own police chief described as a "wolf pack" mentality on the part of the officers involved. having pulled mr nichols over only yards from his home, they drag him from his car and punch, kick and beat him with a baton as he calls out for his mother. tyre nichols was taken to hospital but died three days later of his injuries. he has been described as a sweet—natured young man, who had his mum's name tattooed on his arm. what prompted the officers to pull him over is still unclear, but five — tadarrius bean, demetrius haley, emmit martin, desmond miller and justin smith — are facing charges of second—degree murder. all were part of a specialised street crimes unit, disbanded in the wake

of tyre nichols' death. six weeks on from her son's arrest, tyre nichols' mother described what she has been going through as a nightmare. i want each and every one of those police officers to be able to look me in the face. they haven't done that yet. they couldn't even do that today, they didn't even have the courage to look at me in my face, after what they did to my son. no justice... ..no peace! tyre nichols' death prompted protests across the country and renewed calls for police reform in america. a proposed tyre nichols law would compel police to intervene if they saw a fellow officer assaulting a suspect — though previous legislation of the kind has come to nothing. the police officers accused of killing tyre nichols are now out on bail. they are due to appear

in court again on one may. they are due to appear in court again on 1st may. david willis, bbc news. a consortium led by the head of one of qatar's biggest banks has submitted a bid to buy manchester united. they're the second bidder to have confirmed making an offer before yesterday's deadline, after ineos, a company owned by british billionaire sirjim ratcliffe, also made a bid. the value of the offers isn't yet known. here's our sports news correspondent, andy swiss. it is one of the biggest clubs in world football, and it might soon have a new owner. among the bidders for manchester united, this man — sheikh jassim bin hamad al—thani, the boss of one qatar's biggest banks. in a statement he said the consortium plans to return the club to its former glories, both on and off the pitch and will seek to place the fans at the heart of manchester united. qatar has become increasingly influential in world football after hosting the men's world cup last year. but, as then, some fans have expressed concerns over

the country's human rights record. another confirmed bidder is sirjim ratcliffe, one of britain's richest men who owns the petrochemical company ineos, and has already invested in a number of sports. manchester united's fans have long protested against their current owners, the american glazer family, who announced last year they would consider selling the club. now the battle to buy it is firmly under way. andy swiss, bbc news. there's been an increase in people taking up detectoring in the british countryside, but should their discoveries be finders keepers? the government wants to change the legal definition of what's classed as "treasure", so that when important historical artefacts are found, museums get to keep them for the public to see, instead of them being sold to private collectors. if successful, it will be one of the biggest changes to the "treasure act" since it came into effect 26 years ago. tim muffett reports.

eyes down, fingers crossed. detectorists live in hope. brian and julian have been metal detecting for decades. are you feeling excited? oh, very much so. let's hope it's that gold coin. yeah, ora ring pull — you never know. and still find it exciting. why do you love this hobby so much? why this hobby? that's a question i've been asked by several ex—wives as well. it's one of those things that you just don't know what you're going to come across. these machines are like having access to a time machine. what is that you've found here? tarpaulin ring from a wartime tent. you just don't know what is coming up, and that's the wonder of the hobby. but if you do find something significant, what happens next in england, wales, northern ireland, defends make depends on whether it's defined as treasure.

as things stand, an artefact is classed as treasure if it's more than 300 years old and made in part from a precious metal, such as gold or silver, or if it's more than 300 years old and one of a number of items found together — or a horde, as it's known. treasure is offered to museums first to see if they want to buy it. it's a way of keeping nationally important items on public display. the treasure act protects our heritage, enables finds that we make in fields like this to go into national museums so everyone can share them. if it isn't treasure, it can be sold straight to a private collector. that's what happened to this roman helmet found in cumbria. made of copper, which is not a precious metal, it wasn't deemed treasure, and was sold for more than £2 million to a private collector. chelmsford museum almost missed out on this rare roman figurine because it's made of a copper alloy,

and not a precious metal. because it wasn't classed as treasure, when we were looking to acquire this, the detectorist had sold to a buyer abroad. we had to have the government intervene, essentially, and put in a trade export ban to keep this within the country. the government is proposing to change the legal definition of treasure. it would encompass all exceptional finds over 200 years old, regardless of what metal they're made of. and a new significance test would apply. if an item is connected to a particular area, individual, or historical event, it could be classed as treasure. what do you make of these proposed changes?

will they help your museum? yes, they'll be very positive for us. we'll be able to get first refusal on keeping any items like this that are historically significant, but not made of a precious material. julian and brian might share a love of metal detecting, but on the proposed law change, there's a difference of opinion. do you worry about these proposed changes and impact they might have? yes i do. it will make it difficult, for a start, because nobody will know what the rules are again. so what the government needs to do, if they're going to change it, is publicise it well and make sure it's explained well. i welcome them with open arms because, at the end of the day, it's an extension of metal detecting. ourjob is to protect, find, save, and conserve our heritage. if anyone else is going to develop laws and legal issues to help us do that, that is absolutely brilliant. no spectacular discoveries today in this farmer's field in essex. piece of coke from an old engine. but with metal detecting, you never know what is around the corner, or below your feet. tim muffett, bbc news. for more on this i'm joined now by the founder of the institute of

detectorists, keith wescott. let's start with the basic idea of what the government is trying to do. do you, in principle, agree with the idea of broadening the definition? most certainly, because we have got to think beyond treasure. unfortunately i think we have to stick with the term treasure, which just sums up things like treasure chests full of gold and silver, when in reality, the real treasure is often the significance of the item, the sick historical significance and the sick historical significance and the knowledge we can gain from that find. the more we can move away from this idea that it's got to be something which is gold and shiny, and mortar historical significance, that has got to be a benefit to everyone. this will go beyond metal detectorists, this has got to go to

the benefit of the public in general. although it is a depleting resource, the wonderful fines out there, it is reallyjust important that what is left out there, is treated with the respect it is due. i was reading a couple of examples in the paper this morning and one of the fines in gloucestershire, which i think you will recall, a rare roman dog sculpture back in 2017, and also the case of a depiction in and also the case of a depiction in a figurine of a roman apparently wearing a hoodie, oran a figurine of a roman apparently wearing a hoodie, or an antique version of what we would call a a hoodie. it was a copper alloy which means it couldn't be protected and the government had to find a different route to stop it leaving the country. in terms of how this is implemented, is there a risk it mightjust discourage people from doing work, which in the end, fills

a huge gap in our historical knowledge, the kind of work that rational people would love to do but they don't have the time and manpower to do it?- they don't have the time and manpower to do it? they don't have the time and man ower to do it? ., ., ,., manpower to do it? time and manpower is a particular— manpower to do it? time and manpower is a particular issue _ manpower to do it? time and manpower is a particular issue when _ manpower to do it? time and manpower is a particular issue when it _ manpower to do it? time and manpower is a particular issue when it comes - is a particular issue when it comes to things like recorded finds, but it can also be used as an excuse for why somebody can't be bothered to do a proper recording, because, of course, the treasure act is the legal response that is required, but when it comes to codes of practice and recording, that is all voluntary. it is down to the detectors to themselves, their own belief in doing the right thing, to do the recording so it is easy to turn round and say it is taking them to forever to record this find can be bothered to do it. it's really important that detectorists get behind the system out there, and if the system is a bit slow, let's try to make it better, rather than turn away from it. the sorts of things that are really crucial in this,

particularly when it comes to treasure finds and truths, was that these are quite often finds that are down in the subsoil is where we shouldn't really be taking we do need to make sure we bring in archaeologists to make sure we record things in in its context. film; record things in in its context. any fine view that _ record things in in its context. any fine view that brings particular satisfaction, from your own experience? i satisfaction, from your own experience?_ satisfaction, from your own experience? satisfaction, from your own exerience? ., ., experience? i found a hoard back in the 90s which _ experience? i found a hoard back in the 90s which was _ experience? i found a hoard back in the 90s which was the _ experience? i found a hoard back in the 90s which was the goal- experience? i found a hoard back in the 90s which was the goal of - experience? i found a hoard back in the 90s which was the goal of the l the 90s which was the goal of the historical significance of that, it was in the ashmolean for ten years. more importantly now it's about how those fines can help us understand the landscape out there, and i found one of the largest roman figures in britain. that is much more

important, the archaeological value, rather than finding your items. keith wescott, we have to leave it there. thank you for talking to us. hello there. in the aftermath of storm otto, there are still lots of people suffering from power cuts, with aberdeenshire particularly badly affected. and of course it was aberdeenshire where we had the strongest gust of wind — a gust of 83 mph recorded at inverbervie. now, today's weather, for most of you is a cloudy day today. a bit of light rain or drizzle at times and mild, but for some across the hills of northern scotland, we've seen some snow overnight and at first this morning. so one or two of you waking up to a wintry start to the day. now, the satellite picture shows storm otto working into north—east europe. we've had a weak area of low pressure bringing that snowfall across the hills of northern scotland. and today, as you can see from the charts,

there will be extensive cloud around, a bit of light rain or drizzle, particularly for wales and western england. we'll see some rain returning i think to northern ireland and south west scotland later on today. breaks in the cloud probably are few and far between, but at times eastern england will brighten up and the far north of scotland also seeing some bright or sunny spells. temperatures as high as 15 degrees. in norwich, well, that's seven above average for the time of year. overnight tonight it stays predominantly cloudy. indeed, the cloud will continue to thicken across western scotland with outbreaks of rain arriving here later in the night. the rain, though, shouldn't be too heavy. a mild night and a frost—free night for most, temperatures between five and nine degrees celsius tomorrow. tomorrow we still have that mild flow of south—westerly winds bringing extensive cloud. but in scotland, weather fronts will bring some thicker cloud and some fairly heavy and persistent rain, particularly to the northwest of the country. probably a slightly better chance of seeing cloud breaks for eastern wales, across the midlands, eastern and southern areas of england. but otherwise, again, pretty cloudy and mild. temperatures about 11

to 13 degrees for most. now for sunday night, we'll start to see the winds really increase across northern scotland. gales, severe gales, blowing in here once again, gusts of around 60 to 70 mph. that's not great weather for engineers trying to reconnect those properties to the national power grid. for monday we've still got that flow of mild air coming around. weather fronts continue to affect scotland, but as we head into the middle part of the week, we'll start to get north westerly winds move in, bringing cooler air. i say cooler, actually temperatures towards the middle part of the week will be just dropping closer to average for the time of year. but often the weather looks quite cloudy with the threat of some rain. that's the latest.

this is bbc news. the headlines. uk prime minister rishi sunak is to urge world leaders to "double down" on military support for ukraine in a speech to the munich security conference. he will say allies must give the country "advanced, nato—standard ca pabilities". mr sunak will also meet with european commission president, ursula von der leyen, on the sidelines of the conference as speculation grows that a deal is close on northern ireland's post—brexit trading arrangement. rescue teams pull three people out alive, from under collapsed buildings in turkey — almost two weeks after the quakes that killed

nearly 116,000 people, left millions homeless and sparked a huge relief effort.