this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. us and around the world. regulators have shut down silicon us regulators have shut down silicon valley bank, the biggest banking failure since the 2008 financial crisis. the bbc�*s star football presenter gary lineker has been suspended over social media comments he made criticising the british government's asylum policy. figs government's asylum policy. sis editor—in—chief government's asylum policy. is editor—in—chief of the bbc i think one of our founding principles is impartiality and that's what we're delivering. as president biden meets with the top european ally, we hear from admiraljohn kirby on the white house lawn about us support for ukraine. asylum policy is centre stage at a leaders summit in paris where uk promises france hundreds of

millions of dollars to deal with illegal channel crossings. hello and welcome to bbc news. start in the us where regulators have shut down silicon valley bank, one of the major lenders to tech companies and start—ups. in one of the largest banking failures in the us since the 2008 financial crisis. tech correspondent jane clinton has explained how it happened. but forjames. this is one of the days that will go down in silicon valley history and it certainly one of the most stressful days for silicon valley founders in modern times. we spoke to people today who have been able to withdraw their money from silicon valley bank and some haven't. one person put in a wire request

yesterday and waited nearly 2a hours and eventually found out they got the money out but another person says they have tried and tried and tried and have not been able to withdraw any funds and say they physically came down to one of these branches to try and get these branches to try and get the money out. it has been an incredibly stressful time if you are a start—up. the federal deposit insurance corporation has essentially taken over the bank and are literally in there now advising customers what to do and the hope is that they will be able to withdraw their funds on monday. but that is no certainty around that claim at all and when you speak to people who have not been able to get their money out, it's a time of deep concern and may well not know for another 48 hours whether the money has completely evaporated and this is notjust completely evaporated and this is not just a completely evaporated and this is notjust a local story about start—ups, it's a worry this could spread to other banks across the world. tech reporter

james clayton reporting from silicon valley. brett king is a fin tech order and co—founder of mobile banking start—up movement and joins us from north carolina. we heard from our reporter a sense of panic and concern around start—ups. you are in that industry. how are you feeling in terms of what this means for the companies like you —— moven. means for the companies like you -- maven-— you -- moven. silicon valley bank is a _ you -- moven. silicon valley bank is a mainstay _ you -- moven. silicon valley bank is a mainstay of - you -- moven. silicon valley bank is a mainstay of the - you -- moven. silicon valley bank is a mainstay of the fin | bank is a mainstay of the fin tech industry. a lot of intakes started their businesses running accounts out of there and so forth and there will be companies cannot make payroll next week as a result of this presumably —— fin techs. unless the deal is done last minute. but there is some uncertainty around it but at the same time, it's not entirely unexpected. because of the structural changes happening in the banking sector.— changes happening in the bankin: sector. ., ., banking sector. you mentioned that what has _ banking sector. you mentioned that what has happened - banking sector. you mentioned that what has happened in - banking sector. you mentioned that what has happened in the | that what has happened in the banking sector since the 2008

crash and they have been parallels but it's quite a different scenario? well, if ou different scenario? well, if you look — different scenario? well, if you look at _ different scenario? well, if you look at the _ different scenario? well, if you look at the liquidity - you look at the liquidity problems that they had, part of thatis problems that they had, part of that is the ability to attract deposits cheaply and aggressively in a digitally oriented world and money moves fast these days, as can be seen by the problems that svp encountered when the vc started to talk about... eff: encountered when the vc started to talk about. . ._ to talk about... vc being venture _ to talk about... vc being venture capitalists, - to talk about... vc being venture capitalists, so i venture capitalists, so investors and companies? correct. investors and companies? correct, ., investors and companies? correct-— investors and companies? correct. ., , correct. so you are saying they were worried? _ correct. so you are saying they were worried? peter _ correct. so you are saying they were worried? peter teal- were worried? peter teal started the _ were worried? peter teal started the rumour - were worried? peter teal started the rumour mill. were worried? peter teall started the rumour mill on were worried? peter teal- started the rumour mill on this but if you look at the structural changes happening in the us and happening in markets like the uk, we see new entrants coming into the markets and being able to acquire customers very cheaply using digital —— peter thiel. it is true of deposits, we've seen that in markets like china. so banks of are still requiring on older distribution methods have difficulties in raising deposits as they did in the past. raising deposits as they did in the ast. �* , .,, raising deposits as they did in

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the bbc�*s highest—paid presenter gary lineker has been suspended from the corporation's flagship football show after you compare the british government's language on migration to that of germany in the 1930s. broadcaster, which has a strict impartiality guidelines, said the former england footballer would remain suspended until an agreement was reached over his social media use. studio pundits and all six commentators have pulled out of saturday's programme in support. david salitra reports. gary lineker, for more than 20 years, the face of match of the day. but not tomorrow. he has been taken off air by the bbc and his co— presenters alan shearer and ian wright will not be appearing either as a mark of solidarity with gary linkup. the reason? these tweets in which he described a statement about immigration policy by the home secretary as beyond awful. he then went on to say it was

immeasurably cruel and the language used was not dissimilar to that used by germany in the 30s. corporation says this their guidelines on impartiality and in a statement, said: if gary lineker breached the guidelines, why did you suck him? ~ guidelines, why did you suck him? . ., guidelines, why did you suck him? ~ ., .,~ him? we look to take proportionate - him? we look to take proportionate action i him? we look to take i proportionate action and him? we look to take - proportionate action and that is what — proportionate action and that is what we have done.- proportionate action and that is what we have done. have you kicked it further _ is what we have done. have you kicked it further down _ is what we have done. have you kicked it further down the - kicked it further down the line. —— sackjed him. the statement is clear and that is where we are and as editor—in—chief of the bbc i think one of our founding principles is impartiality and that's what we're delivering on. , , ., ., that's what we're delivering on. ,, ., ., on. this is not what gary lineker— on. this is not what gary lineker was _ on. this is not what gary lineker was expect. - on. this is not what gary | lineker was expect. only yesterday he said he was not fearing suspension. you yesterday he said he was not fearing suspension.- fearing suspension. you fear nettina fearing suspension. you fear getting suspended? - fearing suspension. you fear getting suspended? no. - fearing suspension. you fearj getting suspended? no. and fearing suspension. you fear i getting suspended? no. and he was looking forward to presenting this weekend, one of

those furious with the bbc is alistair campbell who now has a podcast reduced by gary lineker�*s production company. i lineker's production company. i think this decision is driven ljy think this decision is driven by an utterly craven craven political cowardice at the top of the bbc and that is what has led to gary lineker and this thing about you know stepping backwards, let's be frank about this, gary has been pretty made clear to gary lineker i would imagine he's not going to be preventing —— presenting match of the day because he is not topping the line. ., ~' because he is not topping the line. ., ~ ., ., line. he would like to deal with this _ line. he would like to deal with this but _ line. he would like to deal with this but gary - line. he would like to deal with this but gary lineker| line. he would like to deal. with this but gary lineker has shown he will not be silenced and he is not bound by the strict rules covering news but there is a clause saying if you have a high profile there is an extra responsibility. ii have a high profile there is an extra responsibility.— extra responsibility. if you allow the _ extra responsibility. if you allow the most _ extra responsibility. if you allow the most highly - extra responsibility. if youj allow the most highly paid presenter on the bbc to breach the guidelines in a way that the guidelines in a way that the bbc says he has, then why should anybody else who is paid less obey the guidelines? and the bbc has to be impartial and

perceived to be impartial. ind perceived to be impartial. and for the bbc. — perceived to be impartial. and for the bbc, there _ perceived to be impartial. and forthe bbc, there is perceived to be impartial. and for the bbc, there is another issue hanging over it. its chairman. there is an ongoing enquiry into richard sharp's role in a loan made to boris johnson which has raised many questions about his appointment and up impartiality but this weekend, it is all that gary lineker with presenters lining up lineker with presenters lining up to say they will not be replacing him. three will take place with no presenters and no pundits. turning now to what the us and its allies are doing to support ukraine in its war with russia. top—level meeting began on friday and on monday president biden will host leaders of the and australia in california, talking about their shared effort to back kyiv and at the white house mr biden hosted european commission president ursula von der leyen. the pair said they would stand together in unwavering support ukraine.

laura trevelyan spoke to the white house national security council co—ordinator for strategic communications john kirby about strategic communicationsjohn kirby about the biden administration's efforts to arm ukraine. admiral kirby, a renewed russian aggressive in ukraine and the russians are using these sonic missiles. what can the us give ukraine to defend against those? what defend against those? what we're trying _ defend against those? what we're trying to _ defend against those? what we're trying to do _ defend against those? what we're trying to do is - defend against those? what we're trying to do is make i defend against those? what i we're trying to do is make sure that they have additional air defence capabilities and you will see that in recent packages that we have, the president has signed off on for ukraine and one of the capabilities allies and partners are sending as well. clearly they remain under air assault by these cruise missiles and drones and, of course, as we have seen over the last 48 hours, even hypersonic missiles. i will tell you hypersonic missiles are incredibly difficult to counter because of the speed with which they travel. and so, i don't want to overstate this but we will give continue to

give as best defence capabilities as we can but there's to be real limits to what they can do to overcome hypersonic missiles. that said, it's not as if the use of hypersonic missiles is some sort of game changer. this is not the first time the russians have done this. it is an odd choice of weapon to go after a fixed facility but the vast majority of the missiles that were flying against ukraine were flying against ukraine were cruise missiles and/or drones and those are, we are able to help ukrainians with those. 50 able to help ukrainians with those. , . , , those. so in december president biden announced _ those. so in december president biden announced he _ those. so in december president biden announced he was - those. so in december president biden announced he was sending the patriot missile defence system ukraine. is it there yet and what it defend against hypersonic missiles? the ukrainian _ hypersonic missiles? the ukrainian soldiers - hypersonic missiles? iie: ukrainian soldiers that hypersonic missiles? tie: ukrainian soldiers that are learning to use the american patriot system are just wrapping up their patriot system arejust wrapping up their training, as you and i speak, in foothill oklahoma. we wanted to make sure we got them trained up first. it is still going to take some months before the first patriot battery can get on the ground. the patriot system, it is an excellent

system, it is an excellent system but designed to counter ballistic missiles. and so, it would not be effective against the use of hypersonic saw even most cruise missiles. so critics of _ most cruise missiles. so critics of president biden say that whether it is the patriot system or whether it is the tanks, it always takes them a long time to send the ukrainians the kit they need and so, they cannot win the war. it and so, they cannot win the war. , y ., and so, they cannot win the war. , ., war. it is your response to that? it — war. it is your response to that? it depends - war. it is your response to that? it depends on - war. it is your response to that? it depends on the i that? it depends on the capability. there are many capabilities we are getting into the hands of the ukrainians in record time, unprecedented, sometimes within days. other systems are more advanced and they require some training and a separate supply chain because they are more technologically advanced and it takes a longer time to get to ukraine. it also depends on how we are procuring them for ukraine. some items wejust don't have enough in stock off the shelves that we can do is provide in bulk. we've got to go out to the defence contracting enterprise and get them built, get them procured, if the manufacturer, and some of that takes time but i can assure you we are working at

breakneck speed to do everything we can to support ukraine in a very critical weeks and months ahead. i meanwhile, the us director of national intelligence said this week that the russians are running low on ammunition, running low on ammunition, running low on trips, they will not make progress this year without them. it's almost a month since the us warned that china may send weapons to russia. do you see that happening?— russia. do you see that ha enin: ? ~ , happening? think the chinese have taken — happening? think the chinese have taken it _ happening? think the chinese have taken it the _ happening? think the chinese have taken it the table - happening? think the chinese have taken it the table but. happening? think the chinese have taken it the table but we also don't have any information to confirm that they are actually doing that or made the decision to provide lethal weaponry. we obviously don't want them to do that. we do not think it is in china's best interest to help putin kill innocent people. we do not think it should be in the interest i want to be on that side of this war, especially when you're talking about a country like china that enjoys its standing and wants its standing to remain high, international community. you raise a good point in your question and that's about inventory. it is true, director haynes is right, that the russians has been blowing

through a lot of cruise missiles. they are now reaching out to iran for drones and they are having trouble filling the ranks of the trips and the units in ukraine.- ranks of the trips and the units in ukraine. the us, as ou units in ukraine. the us, as you said. — units in ukraine. the us, as you said. is _ units in ukraine. the us, as you said, is training - you said, is training ukrainians. here on american soil to give the patriot system and other weapons systems two. what is the difference between that and the chinese are sending weapons to the russians? why is one ok and the other not?— russians? why is one 0k and the other not?— other not? that's an easy one to answer _ other not? that's an easy one to answer because _ other not? that's an easy one to answer because russia - other not? that's an easy one to answer because russia is l other not? that's an easy one l to answer because russia is the aggressor in the war. ukraine is simply trying to defend itself against illegal, unprovoked russian aggression. united states, our allies and partners, trying to help ukraine defend its a right to exist as a country, its independence and sovereignty. admiral kirby, thank you so much forjoining us from the white house. my pleasure. laura trevelyan there. police in the city of hamburg in germany say that the government has killed seven people, including an unborn child, religious service for jehovah's witnesses. they say the attacker, a former member of the community, acted alone

and took his own life. in the quiet of a suburb, a man prepares to kill. caught on a mobile phone as he peers through a window, readies his gun. inside, jehovah's witnesses had gathered to worship. oblivious to his presence, his intentions. gunshots translation: l was filming - with my phone and only realised through the zoom that someone was shooting at the jehovah's witnesses. by the time police arrived, he was inside, a deadly rampage under way — but then he turned his gun on himself. it's emerged he once belonged to this community, but he'd left the jehovah's witnesses on bad terms. translation: it's a horrible act, a very cruel deed. - we've seen a few things

in hamburg, but a mass killing on this scale is new to us. we knew it from tv, but we didn't imagine it could happen in our city. and he brought terror to these streets. casualties rushed to safety, no time for stretchers. at this point, no—one knew whether he was acting alone. by first light, a terrible tally — seven people shot dead, among them an unborn baby. bodies brought out as investigators scoured the building. revelations emerging, too. police confirmed they once investigated and dismissed a tip—off that the attacker, who legally owned a gun, was mentally unstable. this is a city in mourning, but it's a country in shock, too — shock which deepens with every fresh, distressing revelation. and one question persists here — why? jenny hill, bbc news, hamburg.

britain has more than double the amount of money it will give to france over the next three years to pay for more french help in stopping migrants crossing the channel on small boats. the deal was agreed at a summit in paris between the uk prime minister rishi sunak and french president emmanuel macron. chris mason reports from paris. heading overseas by train, the early service to france, arriving in the courtyard of the elysee palace... is france a friend or foe, prime minister? ..a reminder that relations have been bumpy of late. but look at this, a warmth in the parisian breeze, pleasantries and handshakes, arm in arm, hand in hand. the two leaders met for an hour and 20 minutes, although we were eased out rather sooner. later, they almost gushed

in mutual admiration. i believe today's meeting does mark a new beginning, an entente renewed. the french president said the summit was exceptional and a moment of reunion, of reconnection. and the prime minister set out why they thought a new deal for dealing with migrants was necessary. emmanuel and i share the same belief — criminal gangs should not get to decide who comes to our countries. within weeks of my coming into office, we agreed our largest ever small boats deal. and today, we've taken our cooperation to an unprecedented level to tackle this shared challenge. today's new deal will see more than double the number of personnel deployed here in northern france. this will be paid for in part by the uk, more than doubling its annual funding for this. some of the money will help build a detention centre

in france, too — although it won't be fully up and running until the end of 2026. all part of the efforts to cut the number of people trying to cross the channel like this. the same question to you both, if i may — do you think you'll ever be able to arrange a deal where migrants leaving france for the uk are returned to france? what you've seen today is an unprecedented level of cooperation on tackling this shared challenge, �*cause that's what it is, it's a shared challenge. and going forward, there will be more that we can do. we started that last november, we've built on it today. first, i think we focus on what we have to do in the short run. second, this is not an agreement between uk and france, but an agreement between uk and the eu, because dublin agreement are no more in a situation to be implemented. so this is something now to be negotiated. in other words, a returns agreement isn't happening. brexit has been something

of a stone in the shoe of uk—france relations for years, but the prime minister hopes he has shaken it out, with his personal relationship with the president and that new brexit deal for northern ireland which has improved relations with the european union. but on the issue of small boats, rishi sunak acknowledges there is no simple solution to resolve the issue. and remember, this is one of his key promises — resolving the issue. personal relationships aren't everything in diplomacy, but they do matter. bromance under a shared brolly tells you rather a lot about how things have changed. but ultimately it's what it delivers that really matters. chris mason, bbc news, in paris. iran and saudi arabia have agreed to re—establish diplomatic relations after a seven—year interruption. they will also resume trade and security relations and reopen

their respective embassies within two months. the announcement came after discussions in china. both sides have been quoted praising beijing's role, the countries have had no formal ties since 2016 when riyadh's embassy in tehran was attacked following the saudi execution of a sheer clarac. —— shia. the king has made his youngest brother prince edward the duke of edinburgh. it is a title strongly associated with prince philip who was duke of edinburgh for more than 70 years after his death in 2021. prince edward would hold the title for his lifetime. a british muslim convert who allegedly travelled to syria for terrorism has pleaded not guilty to a string of charges. the man who is 39 was arrested at london's luton airport last august. daniel sanford has more. he was arrested as he returned

on a flight from turkey. the case did attract a lot of media attention because he is accused of having been in those parts of syria controlled by the islamic state group when the group was at the height of its powers, and he was charged with three terrorism offences. today, for the first time, he was asked to plead guilty or not guilty to those charges, and he pleaded not guilty to all three offences. those are possession of a firearm in circumstances that give a reasonable suspicion that that is for a purpose connected with terrorism, inviting people to provide money for the purposes of terrorism, and entering into arrangement with his then wife and others to make money available for the purposes of terrorism. now the case does go forward and the judge said the hearing would be on 18 april and aine leslie davis will remain in prison until that hearing. teachers and children are warning of the dangers of vaping after reports of a big rise amongst the under 18

is for whom it is illegal. although britain's nhs says there is far less harmful than cigarettes for adults who are trying to quit smoking, there are fears that a generation of young people who have never smoked are increasingly getting hawks on the nicotine in vapes. hugh pym reports. this school has a problem. right, so this is our vape sensor that we had installed at christmas. the headteacher is trying to stamp out vaping. we've noticed a real reduction, 16 cases or alerts on the first day down to one or two a week. he wanted to show us the scale of the challenge and the numbers involved. so these are the ones that we've confiscated and these ones really are my least favourite. they're branded as sweets. connor, leon and oscar see themselves as addicts. two of them started vaping at 12. they bring a new flavour out, you want to try that. and itjust keeps going so on and so on.

you're buying nicotine, really, like, you're spending your money on nicotine and stuff. like, it's not something you can stop that easy. it controls the whole way that you think. i but like i said, i would i literally go out and meet someone if i hadn't had one for a few days and i'll- just crave it. but the boys say that unlike them, children who've never smoked are now starting to vape. year 7s are going on to it. but they're going on to vapes, just sort of social life. not because they used to smoke, and it's not because they've been brought up in a house that smoked or whatever. so what measures are being taken on the high street to restrict supplies of e—cigarettes to under—18s? some retailers say they're doing everything they possibly can to avoid underage sales. it's illegal to sell to children. andy says he's always on the lookout for fake id, but some other retailers are less responsible. if we spot an adult buying for kids, we'd ban them for life. you know, we do everything we can, basically. there's £2,500 fine if you get caught selling to under—age.

but i just wish they'd enforce it and double it. cheers, cole. cole is a regular at the shop. he says he's often mobbed by children waiting outside. there are groups of them. they come up to you and just go, "go in there for me. "go and get this for me. "here's the money, will you go in and get this for me?" and it'sjust if i do it, i'll get banned. and i don't want to get banned and i would never do it because they're underage. back at the school, they say health warnings for children must be stronger. these vapes are helping people quit smoking and that's a good thing for their health. but we're not talking about children that were smoking and start using electronic cigarettes. they're actively up—taking the vapes as a lifestyle choice. hugh pym, bbc news. and a reminder of our top story, the us treasury secretary says she has full confidence in the resilience of the country's banking system. janet yellen�*s comments after regulators shut down silicon valley bank, one of the most significant lenders to tech companies in the us. that's it

for me, you can reach me on social media. thanks for watching. snow has been nominating the weather story over the past three days and well does tim tchouameni there is still snow forecast for some. it is a cold, and icy start to saturday for a large swathe of the uk. the temperatures were summed down to —10 —ii to you have seen snow. the many on saturday it is mainly dry further east you are. more snow moving into northern england and scotland, and for many it will turn milder through sunday. this is our saturday shapes up, a good deal of sunshine for many through the morning but mr mcleod gathering across northern ireland, wales and south—west england, some outbreaks of rain and hills no dear, maybe a few showers, in the far north of england in

southern scotland, likely to be snow critically over higher ground. but for many it is dry, sunshine further east you are, temperatures between three and 7 celsius. could see ten, 11, 12 across the far south—west of england. rain and snow moves its way north and eastward through northern england into scotland overnight, behind it you will see skies and also some milder air, so actually frost and ice free for a large swathe of northern ireland england and wales as we head into sunday morning, still cold, frosty and potentially icy for the scotland. this is sunday, another atlantic system moving in, notice the squeeze in the isobars, the winds will be strengthening through the day. once again a good deal of sunshine to start but rain will soon move into northern ireland into north—west england and scotland, moves into northern scotland, moves into northern scotland, might see some snow here stop once again a further issue are you will stay mainly dry. but the wind strengthening all the while i fielding milder for many, particularly for england and wales,, we could

get into double figures but on the cold side particularly for the cold side particularly for the far north of scotland. so through sunday into monday here is our atlantic system sweeping its way across the uk, again those isobars really close together, we could potentially see gales across southern half of uk through monday, certainly unsettled start the week, the bands showers or longer spell the rain working north and eastward, could still see a little bit of snow over the highest ground in scotland. but it is a mild start, much milder start to the new week, but it doesn't last long because on tuesday some cold air starts to dig back in and further rain to come in the week ahead.

this is bbc news, the headlines. us regulators have shut down silicon valley bank, a major lender to tech companies after it ran into financial trouble. companies after it ran into financialtrouble. it's companies after it ran into financial trouble. it's the largest banking failure in the united states since the financial crisis of 2008. fellow broadcasters and commentators have said they won't work on the bbc�*s flagship sports programme much of the day this weekend after its presenter gary lineker was taken off presenting duties following social media posts he made following the government's asylum policy. ritan will increase its payments to france to stop illegal migrant gratian boats across the channel following funding for a new

detention centre to remove people from the french coast.