live from london, this is bbc news. another attempt to get a ceasefire in sudan as authorities say five days of fighting has killed at least 270 civilians. russia is accused of sabotage and planning to cut crucial power and communication cables in the north sea. research raising eyebrows around the world, a british trial suggests a so—called soup and shake diet can permanently reverse type two diabetes. and the sacked boss of the cbi has told the bbc he has been made to the full guide for the crisis. that might befall guy.

more on the headline stories in a moment, but let's round up the sport and go to the sports centre and will perry. they hope to set up a last four tie against the holders, real madrid. what you have to do to achieve it is be ourselves as much as possible. our game plan is to stick until the end and do our game and our game. as much as possible, and when it's not possible, it's because they were better, not because we couldn't do it or something we were not. bur;

better, not because we couldn't do it or something we were not. buy a new capital— it or something we were not. buy a new capital to _ it or something we were not. buy a new capital to do. _ bayern have it all to do, only four teams in history have overturned a three—goal deficit in the champions league. sadio mane is available to play following his bust up with leroy sane after the first leg. mane was suspended for their draw with hoffenheim and fined. their manager thinks they've wasted the chance to turn the situation into a positive. i hope we used it in the last match against hoffenheim, which we obviously didn't, and now the case is already closed on the subject has already died. i don't think this will give us a huge boost. so this is where we stand. real madrid and ac milan have already reached the champions league semi—finals. later, as well as bayern city, inter milan face benfica. the italian side 2—0 up in that tie. it's one of the tightest title races in recent women's super league history, with just three points separating the top four. and there is a huge clash tonight, as leaders manchester united host arsenal, who are just three points behind in third. so a win could go a long way to deciding who will be crowned champions next month, but manchester united manager marc skinner doens�*t

think it's critical. i think it will still go down to the last game, so look, it's a key game, i'm not downplaying that, but i still think there is a lot to go ahead first before we look into that but i'm sure we will be focused fully on trying to get the three points in this game. we are into day five of the world snooker championships at the crucible in sheffield and the undoubted highlight from today's action has been a outstanding 147 maximum break from kyren wilson. he's taking on ryan day in the opening round and this is how wilson finished it off, achieving what is only the 13th maximum break in the history of the competition. if it remains the highest at this year's tournament, he stands to earn £55,000 in additional prize money. at the close of the session he leads 6 frames to 3. 0n the other table, england's jack lisowski has beaten noppon saengkham of thailand by ten frames to seven. lisowski will face the winner of the match betweenjudd trump and anthony mcgill, that's going on right now. mcgill leads 8—6.

to cricket and david warner has been included in the australia squad for the world test championship final against india and the first two ashes tests with england. the 36—year—old has not been the force of old, but a double century against south africa in december showed he can still produce the big scores when needed. warner's struggled with an elbow injury of late but makes the squad and will be expected to take to the field against england when the ashes get underway injune. jonny bairstow has confirmed hilary be back from the first leg having recovered from a broken leg and a dislocated accident in a freak accident off the golf course. more cricket news, the former yorkshire and england batsmen gary ballance has retired from all professional cricket, that news coming on in the last ten minutes, with immediate effect. he played a0 times what england including 23 tests and went on to play for the country of his birth, zimbabwe. he said he had no longer the desire to dedicate himself to the rigours of professional sport. more from us

later. now to a fascinating story, because russia has been accused of planning a campaign of sabotage against energy infrastructure in the north sea to be activated in the case of war with the west. the claims have been made in a documentary produced by the public broadcasters in scandinavia and finland. these allegations come in an investigation by public broadcasters in norway, denmark, sweden and finland. the first is being broadcast today, called putin's shadow war. they allege that russia has a fleet of vessels that are disguised as fishing trawlers and research vessels that are actually carrying underwater surveillance equipment and are being used to map possible sites for sabotage if the conflict with the west increases. one of the vessels that they tracked was the admiral vladmirsky. they allege that it is a russian spy ship. officially, it is a research vessel. but they tracked a route you can see

here in red they say had passed at least seven offshore wind farms, both in the uk and off denmark. when dr's reporter caught up with the vessel in a small boat, this is what happened. as we have been told by the source, i can see crew members walking around on the deck. i think they're watching us. there's two men staring at us. wow, they're looking at us. this is really a strange situation. almost a tense situation. they're looking at us. he went on to see this masked individual carrying what appears to be a military assault rifle. the whole documentary uses claims by an anonymous, former uk royal navy expert. here's what he told the investigation team. they don't normally run encrypted communications, and that can only be something they don't want people to know. this tells me this vessel is engaged in something other than hydrographic research. what could that be? underwater surveillance.

cables, pipelines, topography as well. so, mapping the sea bed. not only are they able to map the infrastructure but they have built a fleet specifically to attack that infrastructure. in norway, this nrkjournalist has been tracking the routes of civilian vessels and in one case, he says a russian trawler crossed 130 times the svalbard cable before it was damaged. we don't know what caused that damage but we do know signals from this, one of the world's biggest satellite stations, do pass down the fibre—optic cables. seperately, the bbc understands uk officials are aware of russian vessels moving around uk waters as part of this programme. it's also worth noting that reconnaissance of secret sites is not that uncommon and indeed, western nations may be doing similar things in russia.

for more on this, i'm now joined by tobias liebetrau who is a maritime and infrastructure expert at the university of copenhagen. it is definitely worrying. but it's not new, in the sense that we already knew that the russians were interested in critical infrastructure in the north sea and baltic sea and it's part of a larger russian strategy to prepare themselves should they faced the west in a conflict or war. how easy would it be to take out large parts of critical infrastructure, and how difficult will it be to protect it? well it will be feasible for the russians, and we saw it already with the nordstream attack, and it was definitely feasible and possible and that would be the power cables or data cables because it's such a vast space to protect on the sea bed

and also in between, so in order to prevent such an attack from happening, and the comment of the conduct offices something could be done by submarines. there are different ways of conducting attacks against infrastructure but it's definitely possible. ukraine says it's received the first of the us—made patriot air defence systems it's been promised. a spokesman called the arrival of the powerful surface—to—air system a historic step that would allow the military to push russian aircraft away from ukraine's borders. the arrival of the first battery comes ahead of an expected ukrainian spring offensive, and fears that kyiv is running low on air defence missiles. we heard more on this from our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse. there was a time in ukraine when ministers were deeply frustrated over the speed germany was providing military aid. well, this is a sizeable 2.2 billion euros package which has been announced.

crucially for kyiv, it includes patriot air defence systems is made in the us. they are seen as one of the best of this kind. they can launch missiles for up to 150 kilometres, they can take out missiles as well as enemy aircraft. what kyiv is saying is that will allow them to repel russian aircraft and keep them out of ukrainian airspace, because up to this point in this war neither side has secured air dominance. this is part of a real big announcement from berlin. 18 leopard tanks have also been announced, 500 pistols, 3000 anti—tank weapons, a military hospital alongside with estonia, and 100,000 hand grenades. itjust shows how expensive this conflict is in just about every way. but i think for right now, kyiv has been asking for air defence systems to be improved and ammunition, there were doubts over stocks running out, but this will go some way to relax those worries.

but russia is showing no signs of letting up in terms of firing drone and missiles right across ukrainian airspace. let's turn to the breaking news and we were talking about the industrial problems in the uk with a variety of strikes and just in the last few seconds another union, this time the uk unite union with security officers at heathrow airport to strike for eight days in may. that has just been announced. i strike for eight days in may. that hasjust been announced. i don't know the exact days in may, and we will try to find out and bring you the latest on that but another strike from another union, this time unite with security officers at heathrow airport taking industrial action for eight days in may. that news just action for eight days in may. that newsjust coming into action for eight days in may. that news just coming into us about 20

minutes ago and we told you that senior civil servants were to be balloted for strikes in their dispute over pay, and other sectors, nurses, junior doctors, teachers, a variety of strike action that we are seeing in different parts of the uk, so that's the latest line and we will try to find out more detail on that and bring it up today to see it as it comes into us. now to another important story that is raising eyebrows around the world. losing weight can rid sufferers of diabetes — that's the conclusion of a landmark medical trial. it found that patients on a special low calorie diet who then kept the weight off were free from symptoms five years later. type 2 diabetes is a relatively common condition where blood sugar becomes too high, and is often linked to being overweight or inactive. around a62 million people around the world are affected — that's just over 6 per cent of the population. the diet in this study consists of low—calorie soups and shakes for four weeks, followed by help with reintroducing normal meals.

professorjonathan valabjee, the national clinical director for diabetes and obesity at nhs england is leading the national roll—out of the programme in the nhs in england. it's exciting data from the direct trial that has come out today. . a few years ago they were able to demonstrate that people - with fairly recent onset of type two diabetes could be put _ into remission, supported to achieve remission, - that means normal glucose levels off full medication. _ at that point we were very impressed with the trial results _ and began a roll—out - across the nhs in england. the data today demonstrates that actually that remission _ in a proportion of individuals can be maintained at the five year. mark, which is quite - an exciting prospect really. much of the output from this trial has turned much of traditional. wisdom and thinking on its head.

many of us within the field before this had considered type two diabetes to be - progressive and irreversible. now it's very clear with the direct trial and what we are reproducing within the nhs, it shows one can i achieve significant weight loss i i through this intervention that can. indeed put the diabetes into reverse and into remission. such an interesting trial. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. he's the oldest competitor running in this years london marathon. i aged 90, david will run the race by walking and is hoping to do it in seven hours. he has run 13 marathons in his lifetime.— in his lifetime. that was my last one. i in his lifetime. that was my last one- i was _ in his lifetime. that was my last one. i was struggling _ in his lifetime. that was my last one. i was struggling and - in his lifetime. that was my last one. i was struggling and it - in his lifetime. that was my last| one. i was struggling and it took in his lifetime. that was my last - one. i was struggling and it took me about_ one. i was struggling and it took me about an _ one. i was struggling and it took me about an hour longer to do that and it was_ about an hour longer to do that and it was five _ about an hour longer to do that and it was five hours on something, so

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samir in new york. interesting one, all eyes have been on the focus of how many cars they can sell and tears let you say you need to cut prices to sell more.— prices to sell more. incredible another price _ prices to sell more. incredible another price cut _ prices to sell more. incredible another price cut coming - prices to sell more. incredible another price cut coming from prices to sell more. incredible - another price cut coming from tesla about five or 6% on those cars. we saw an immediate impact in terms of the number of cars sold which went up the number of cars sold which went up by 36%. you can see what i want to cut it to cut the price they have sold. if you look at the share prices, it's fallen because investors don't like it because there is a lot of concern about the profit margin on each car. that as they go through the price cuts, the amount of money that tesla is going to be able to make off each

car gets smaller and smaller. ibmd car gets smaller and smaller. and the devil is _ car gets smaller and smaller. and the devil is in _ car gets smaller and smaller. and the devil is in the _ car gets smaller and smaller. and the devil is in the detail. we might get a bit more later. for elon musk, he has his attention may be elsewhere right now.- he has his attention may be elsewhere right now. he has his attention may be elsewhere riht now. , ., ~ elsewhere right now. yes, elon musk has a lot of— elsewhere right now. yes, elon musk has a lot of things _ elsewhere right now. yes, elon musk has a lot of things going _ elsewhere right now. yes, elon musk has a lot of things going on _ elsewhere right now. yes, elon musk has a lot of things going on for- elsewhere right now. yes, elon musk has a lot of things going on for him . has a lot of things going on for him and you are right. he has got so much that he's been concentrating on and a lot of investors have been worried about whether or not he is to thinly spread. i think you're right. we will get more details when we hearfrom the right. we will get more details when we hear from the earnings report later on today, and he will certainly be asked a lot of questions about these latest price cuts. ., ~ questions about these latest price cuts. . ~ , ., questions about these latest price cuts. . ~ i. questions about these latest price cuts. . ~ , , ., cuts. thank you, good stuff and i know ou cuts. thank you, good stuff and i know you will _ cuts. thank you, good stuff and i know you will follow _ cuts. thank you, good stuff and i know you will follow that - cuts. thank you, good stuff and i know you will follow that for - cuts. thank you, good stuff and i know you will follow that for us l cuts. thank you, good stuff and i i know you will follow that for us and there will be more through the evening but we will stay with tech because the apple chief exec has met with the indian prime minister who says the company is committed to investing in india. apple is looking at india is a growing retail market

and also to expand its manufacturing base to diversify the assembly operation moving them out of china. theiphone operation moving them out of china. the iphone maker has finally launched its first physical retail store in the country as we help been finding out. apple says hello mumnai. amidst loud cheering, selfies, and big crowds of fans and loyalists. apple india's story is 25 years old, selling iphones, ipads, macbooks tthrough thousands of its licenced premium resellers, but why is the store launch such a big deal? it signals a pivot in how apple views india, now a strategic market for the tech giants and a growing customer base and a boost from local manufacturing. apple has always been an aspirational brand, but out of the reach for most indians.

apple has always been an aspirational brand, but out of the reach for most indians. even now, iphones make upjust a% of the overall smartphone sales, but comparing it to i% in 2019 shows the mass grows. it is now the most popular smartphone in the premium category. all the time in india we have only been to retail stores, never a apple store, so better late than never. whenever you go to a reseller store, they don't provide a lot of products. here you get every colour, which i've never seen, just in the pictures, like pink coloured ipads, all you get to see here. apple's retail push has been aggressive in the world's second largest smartphone market and they are offering discounts, financial schemes and launching new phones in india simultaneously with the world. i think it's good to play the game of waiting for the economy to grow and purchasing power to grow and therefore more customers to be able to afford the product. but india is notjust a market to sell products, but make them as well. fitting well in the apple strategy to diversify assembly operations beyond china.

it has been making phones since 2017 and today its three main offenders, which together employ some 60,000 workers locally, produce almost 7% of the world's iphones in india. apple exported a record $5 billion worth of iphones from india last year. production estimates provided by apple suppliers suggest the company could shift between 12 and 18% of its total iphone assembly operation to india over the next few years. add to the production list airports can, macbooks, ipads. india becomes a much bigger market and it will make more sense for apple to produce as much as it can in india, what is feasible that, and if in the process of doing so a certain amount of things happen from china, that will be a bonus. the complete success will depend on how much they can source components locally which will help reduce product costs.

inflation figure starting to slow in europe but the uk still a problem. more on the website and you are watching bbc news. the sacked head of the cbi has said he has been made the fall guy. and tony danker apologised to all he had made uncomfortable, and his reputation has been destroyed as his public wrongly accused him of sexual harassment with several charges of misconduct that occurred before he joined the cbi and he has been talking to our business editor.

i want to apologise to anybody at the cbi that i upset and made uncomfortable. that is on me, that's on me. but i have had a week of coverage saying "tony danker sacked in rape scandal. " these stories have been about rape and sexual assault and cocaine and bullying. none of that was anything to do with me and it was all before my time. the first thing that has happened is my reputation has been totally destroyed. i never thought i would be here talking to you but i have to. the second thing that happened was when they fired me, they told me that some of the things i have done and they named them, these were things thatjust a week or two earlier they said didn't merit any disciplinary action and now they told me they merited immediate dismissal. i have been made the fall guy.

not did theyjust throw me under the bus, they reversed the bus back over me. i didn't want to come out into the media after what had happened, but i feel i have to clear my name. the first part of the investigation was focused on your conduct and you know what the charges are because you had to respond to them, and it said unwarranted verbal remarks in the office, a barrage of unwanted messages, some featuring sexually suggestive language. what did happen? i can tell you the complaints that were raised with me. and perhaps more helpfully i can tell you which ones the cbi then said merited my dismissal. the first one was that i organised a secret and private karaoke party. so, what was this? at the christmas party, 2021 everybody was walking

around saying let's go to karaoke and i said, ok and i booked a room for 15 people, the largest i can get, and i walked around the party saying, who wants to come to karaoke? and we got 15 people and we went. the second one was my use of instagram, and during the pandemic and beyond i viewed the stories and profiles of a very small number of cbi staff, men and women who had public instagram profiles, public, so they broadcasted well. nobody complained but the investigator raised with me, and the cbi already knew that some people thought that was intrusive. and i get that. the third thing was they suppose it barrage of messages raised with me which was that i send people, junior staff loads of messages on teams, very often talking about nonwork stuff. and they are right. i have on

teams message properly 200 people to say hi, how are you, how was your weekend, show me pictures of your dogs or your babies. so what has happened here is that some people receive these messages and said it's totally inappropriate and they haven't realised i've been doing this to everyone to try and a rapport. and the fourth one i was accused of and was mentioned again in my dismissal letter was inviting junior staff, in my dismissal letter was inviting juniorstaff, in in my dismissal letter was inviting junior staff, in this casejunior females, to breakfast or lunch or coffee outside the office. and i did. junior staff, female and male, i invited them to coffees and breakfasts and lunches across the road from the office to talk about their career as part of a mentoring programme. and the cbi knew about all of these things and never once raised them with me as a disciplinary issue. until suddenly they all became grounds for immediate dismissal. but here i am, on the news, telling you things that i recognise don't sound great, but

they are not misconduct, and they are not the things being accused of me. ., y ., are not the things being accused of me. ., i. .,, ., are not the things being accused of me. ., ., , me. not in your opinion, but let me ive ou me. not in your opinion, but let me give you a — me. not in your opinion, but let me give you a reminder _ me. not in your opinion, but let me give you a reminder of _ me. not in your opinion, but let me give you a reminder of what - me. not in your opinion, but let me give you a reminder of what the - give you a reminder of what the definition of sexual harassment is. creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, offensive environment for people, whether intended or not, say the fact it wasn't intentional is not good enough. it the fact it wasn't intentional is not good enough.— the fact it wasn't intentional is not ood enouh. ., ., ., not good enough. it also talks about them having — not good enough. it also talks about them having reasonable _ not good enough. it also talks about them having reasonable basis - not good enough. it also talks about them having reasonable basis on - them having reasonable basis on which to believe that that is what was going on. ibi, which to believe that that is what was going on-_ which to believe that that is what was going on. a quick post script, because speaking _ was going on. a quick post script, because speaking in _ was going on. a quick post script, because speaking in response - was going on. a quick post script, because speaking in response to i was going on. a quick post script, i because speaking in response to the interview, the president of the cbi, brian mcbride has described his account of why he had been through was selective and brian mcbride said there would be a root and branch examination of the culture at the business group. much more on our website on that story and before we break, just breaking news concerning colin beattie. he will step down as the snp party treasurer after he was

arrested in connection with the police investigation into the party's finances. he hasjust police investigation into the party's finances. he has just been releasing a statement and said on a personal level that the decision has not been easy but i will continue to fully cooperate with police scotland's inquiries and it would be inappropriate for me to comment further on a live case, so colin beattie stepping down as the snp party treasurer. that news just coming into us in the last while. let's catch up with the weather. scotla nd scotland has been faring nicely across western scotland and this is where we will properly see the highest temperatures again. we still have high pressured dominating the weather going to the north—east of the uk on this weather front is taking showers away from the south—west of england but we are still left with an easterly wind which is quite strong and gusty, and it will make it feel chilly if you haven't got the sunshine, and cooler

around eastern coastal areas of the uk and the wind off the north sea, higher temperatures around western coast but more cloud in the afternoon across wales, south—west of northern ireland and that will get pushed away and a bit of upslope cloud coming into the pennines and otherwise clear skies but the wind will drop a bit as well, so it will be quite chilly overnight and those are the temperatures in towns and cities which could be below freezing in grampian by the morning. heading into tomorrow, any cloud will move away and there will be a lot of sunshine around tomorrow and the wind is picking up once again and dragging in some cloud from the near continent into east anglia and the south—east in the afternoon and that will bring with it patchy rain and here it will feel chilly. the wind is very similar to what we've seen today so picking up through they are the strongest crossing land and wales which will make it feel chilly but at least many places will see sunshine and in western scotland we could see temperatures as high as 18 degrees. the pollen levels are still high and very high in wales on the

south—west tomorrow. tree pollen at this time of year, and the grass pollen season starts next month. heading towards the end of the week we still have high pressure sitting more to the north of the uk and still keeping the run of east or north—easterly winds but we have weather fronts on the scene meaning thicker cloud and some patchy rain on friday across england and wales and if it brightens up in the south it could trigger sharp showers and we will have a strong wind across northern england and southern scotland, scotland and northern ireland should stay dry on the best of the sunshine on the highest temperatures, reasonably warm in the sunshine but much more cloud will drop the temperatures in england and wales to ten or 11 degrees. as we head into the weekend, the chance of rain on saturday and it looks dry on the sunday but showers in northern scotland on sunday will turn wintry in the hills and it will get colder with the northerly wind.

live from london, this is bbc news. two teenagers have been charged with murder in a shooting at a 16th birthday party that left four dead in the us state of alabama. with the violence that went on and the magnitude of what happened, we are absolutely still in the early stages of this investigation. fall—out after fox news settles a defamation lawsuit with the voting machine company dominion for more than three quarters of a billion dollars. another attempt to get a ceasefire in sudan, as authorities say five days of fighting has killed at least 270 civilians.