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we just landed, our plane crashed. all 80 people on board all of a sudden, everything just kind of went sideways and just kind'gf—werrt'sideways and thing know, just kind'gf'wsnt'sidswsys snd thing know, there is a next thing you know, there is a blink and i'm upside down, still strapped in. trying to look tough on crime for overcrowding in prisons. israel's military begins withdrawing from southern lebanon. across five continents.
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talks in saudi arabia. it's the first such meeting since russia invaded ukraine nearly three years ago. the us secretary of state marco rubio is leading a high—level delegation from the us — with the meeting taking russia's delegation will be led russian—american relations". our correspondent tom bateman
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is in the saudi capital riyadh. towards seeing whether russia is, in their words, serious about talks going ahead to end the war, but they are playing this down as any kind of formal start to negotiations. was very different. the us and russia. remember the context of this — coming after president putin last week. will be to try and fix up a summit
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we are seeing european countries scrambling to try when we heard the americans call for concessions from ukraine to end the war without the same kind of demands being articulated, it seems, towards the russians. it is being watched by all the players, but crucially, ukrainians are not invited. talks and that he will not accept any agreement over our correspondent in kyiv, james waterhouse, has more
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on a long—scheduled trip. where they will talk about prisoner of war exchanges and future security. it seems, over the coming days. for negotiations for the future of his country? he would like to think so, but we just don't know at the moment. he has labelled europe as being weak because of its reliance on america. when this war finally ends.
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will require unity. and one of those soldiers was to be killed in an outbreak of fighting, then it would pose of a world war breaking out. eu ministers are meeting today to work out future financial support for ukraine and other topics, but at the moment it's scratching its heads really, the french president, emmanuel macron, says he's had stressed the need to take responsibility for their own continent's security, as the us talks directly entered a new stage
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in transatlantic relations, his comments were supported by the danish prime minister, rajini vaidynathan is in paris and sent us this update. well, this meeting in paris was hastily arranged by france's emmanuel macron, and in many ways came that the us and russia are going to be having but europe does not have a seat at the table. so attending these talks in paris were leaders and the eu's ursula von der leyen. set out what was at stake —
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"but it's also about us." but we did hear, for example, from the british prime minister i'm prepared to consider committing british on alon-side others the ground alongside others if there _ the ground alongside others if there is — the ground alongside others if there is a lasting the re is 7 a stawctian lu”; m u st the re is a sleagtniewn 22.4: the re is 7 a zi,35,,n,,tin ;:,.,.,:u agreement. but there must be a us backstop because a us agreement. but there must be a us back guarantee ;e a us agreement. but there must be a us back guarantee is a us agreement. but there must be a us back guarantee is the 5 agreement. but there must be a us back guarantee is the only sesurity sugars... '. to sesurity guarantee is the tent; to effectively sesurity guarantee is the 21's; to effectively deter way to effectively deter russia from _ way to effectively deter russia from attacking again. there needed to be no split between the us and europe. and after that meeting
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concludes next week, european leaders to carry on the conversation. but of course, nobody really knows where things are going next. those talks started in saudi arabia and are some those talks started in saudi a| being 1d are some those talks started in saudi a| being written are some those talks started in saudi a| being written all e some those talks started in saudi a| being written all the me updates being written all the, in our live page. there is time in our live page. there is the of the delegations the picture of the delegations at the a large wooden at the table, a large wooden table sitting across one n at the top the another. at the tap ef the then the another. at the top of the then the result of 7 this ' 7 this piece analysis including this piece about where is volodomyr taddei? 7 taddei? 5 he is zelensky taddei? notably he is not in meeting president so: 77 so we sofwe will 77 s'jwéhihee' " 77 w erases fig; set-jennies those a nd monitoring those visits and those meetings any new out and 7 out and you can uptoé j up to date 5 up to date via 5 up to date via the live keep up to date via the live page on the bbc website and the bbc app.
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a plane has crashed at toronto pearson international airport, flipping upside down. 80 people were on board the delta airlines plane in the united states. 18 people were injured, three of them seriously. david willis reports. ushered to safety after a truly remarkable escape. bleep. this passenger's—eye view of the delta airlines plane, belly—up on the runway of canada's busiest airport, doused it with water. staff scrambled to the scene. walking around the aircraft. yeah, we've got it. the aircraft is upside down and burning.
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drinks or sandwiches or provide for our comfort, they are there at pearson airport this afternoon did a truly remarkablejob. it's incredible. the other factor is, that plane had what are called 166 seats. a great deal of punishment, truly remarkable. here, do you think? the tsb will be looking at everything. they will do a deep dive into the flight crew, the maintenance on the aeroplane itself. but one would think that with conditions as we saw
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to put that fire out, because a fire on an aeroplane right, and dan, of course, this comes in the wake of that fatal crash at ronald reagan airport here in washington, dc. another high—profile crash. at any given time. and the safety record of commercial aviation over the last 20 years is really truly remarkable. the last two or three weeks, there is no question about it. but commercial
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aviation is very safe. sadly, incidents such as the one we saw today are rare, any hesitation about it. doge, the department of government efficiency, at the faa in the wake of these crashes. well, you need redundancy. who are technicians, who repair what i called vors and ilss. they are technical terms but they are radio aids that keep the flying system safe. and these people are very, very specialised in what they do. us senator mark warner of virginia, friday, said
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drawn up in november, and tells us what is expected to happen troops were meant to have pulled out of their positions in the south of lebanon. and that extension finishes today. now, under that deal, all israeli troops although this has begun — we've heard that both from israeli and lebanese officials — what israel has said is that they will maintain five essentially extending along that border,
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that it should be solved by diplomatic means. hezbollah has made statements already a couple of days ago that they might go back to fighting. by the israeli army — that it could be a permanent decades ago when they finally pulled out after being sebastien asher injerusalem. sebt is ien asher injerusalem. sebt is the asher injerusalem. sebt is the hospital|erusalem. sebt is the hospital in usalem. sebt is the hospital in rome n. where the pope is currently in residence, he was admitted on
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to undergo treatment and friday to undergo treatment and tests for he is tests for bronchitis. he is still in there, he's been treated for a complex clinical situation. let's �*you the situation; let�*s show you the w . w . ,, of the situation; let's show you the 7—7 . ~~~ , ~ of the particular room reserved for hospital room is reserved for pope, should he need it. he imm- is in their being treated. bethany bell is in rome, she us an us an update on his gave us an update on his situation. said that they'd had to change their treatment because they said tests had shown that the pope tract infection, and they said it wasn't clear as to
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the messages of goodwill for his recovery that he had been receiving — particularly, the vatican in hospital. prison population in england and wales has been fuelled on crime — with too much focus on punishment rather a rising number behind every door, inside, locked up, on crime. and ineffective. sentences have got longer, they have got tougher. we're sending more people to prison, and we're sending
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it is understandable, and indeed, right justice system rehabilitates people. a review chaired by the former lord chancellor looked into what's pushed towards emergency measures to deal with record demand. with high re—offending rates almost 57% for those a few months ago, 1,700 prisoners as part of a government scheme to try to ease overcrowding.
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the current government blamed the previous government for years of inaction. to hold trials, police unable to make arrests, this is not the long—term solution. there is more that we must do, but it was the necessary overall over the last 30 years. but there are also far more effective non—custodial solutions that can also be used. overcrowded prisons can't rehabilitate people. and we end up ultimately in a situation
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ways to cut crime, it seems, will not be able to rely the tech giant said project waterworth, connecting the us, india, south africa, brazil underwater cable project when completed. that supports it. there will be more on that with sally in a few minutes, stay us on 5 us on bbc 5 5 us on bbc news. j but wherever you are, it was a cold start to the day. a southeasterly wind,
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but watch how they turn around to more of a southwesterly. that indeed is a milder direction for us. so we lose the cooler blues and then as we head on especially on thursday and friday. of any rain, sleet and snow fizzling out in scotland. we'll be left with a fair bit of cloud in scotland that brisk wind will still be with us tonight the risk of ice forming in scotland, and we've got across parts of the west. central and eastern parts of the country. but we do have the cloud and rain moving in from the west,
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but there's no seat at the table for president zelensky — it's upside down. on arrival at toronto airport. israel's military begins withdrawing from southern lebanon. trips remain temporarity five key positions. those are the headlines. now let's get the latest business news with sally. as you would expect the business world is very focused on those talks are under way in riyadh, saudi arabia, the riyadh, saudi arabia, about the future of ukraine. defence have soared since monda stocks have soared since monday of a big in spendingion monday
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