that was pandora forsyth _ speaking to me earlier.ia. people have been queueing up of russia. people have been queueing up outside the hospital, all queueing in order to donate blood to help those who were injured. more than 100 killed. we understand 115 were killed, at least 115 killed and more than 100 injured. those numbers keep climbing over the hours. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. we've been getting used to some very mild weather over the past week or more. temperatures were up to nearly 19 celsius a few days ago, but a different feel to the weather this weekend. it's windy, it's colder and we will see a mixture of sunshine and showers. probably a better prospect for more sunshine as we head into sunday. but the culprit, this area of low pressure to the north of the uk. lots of isobars on the charts hit the strong winds. and our air source coming down from the northwest, from iceland and greenland, that's why it's feeling cold. so a chilly, blustery afternoon for many — lots of showers rattling through, particularly

journalist and royal expert pandora forsythe and fearless us commentator mel k.ld a donald trump victory be an early christmas present for the uk? my friday big opinion is on the way. britain is broke and politicians are not being honest with you about why. so some truth bombs coming after the news headlines and a good friend of mine, sam francis . of mine, sam francis. >> mark, thank you very much . >> mark, thank you very much. good evening from the gb newsroom just after 8:00. and we start with news from northern ireland, families ireland, where families of alleged who were alleged informers who were killed by the ira say another step towards truth has been made after a report into the activities of a double agent was published today. the investigation revealed that more lives were probably lost than saved by the spy code named stakeknife. he was working covertly for the british army inside the ira's internal security unit, known for abductions, torture and murder. northern ireland's first minister has apologised today to the bereaved families and said she's w

journalist and royal expert pandora forsythe and fearless us commentator mel k.ld a donald trump victory be an early christmas present for the uk? my friday big opinion is on the way. britain is broke and politicians are not being honest with you about why. so some truth bombs coming after the news headlines and a good friend of mine, sam francis . of mine, sam francis. >> mark, thank you very much . >> mark, thank you very much. good evening from the gb newsroom just after 8:00. and we start with news from northern ireland, families ireland, where families of alleged who were alleged informers who were killed by the ira say another step towards truth has been made after a report into the activities of a double agent was published today. the investigation revealed that more lives were probably lost than saved by the spy code named stakeknife. he was working covertly for the british army inside the ira's internal security unit, known for abductions, torture and murder. northern ireland's first minister has apologised today to the bereaved families and said she's w

let's speak to royal commentator and journalist, pandora forsyth. thank you forjoining us.ement. terribly shockina heard the statement. terribly shocking and _ heard the statement. terribly shocking and it _ heard the statement. terribly shocking and it just _ heard the statement. terribly shocking and itjust goes - heard the statement. terribly shocking and it just goes to l heard the statement. terribly . shocking and itjust goes to show that cancer can affect anybody at any age. i think what's really important here is that she is being brave, as the king has already stated in his message about his daughter—in—law this evening. but also, family, just how important thatis also, family, just how important that is to catherine and her children are still coming first and so is her health and her recovery. away from what must have been an extremely difficult and scary time for her, to be quite frank, given all the speculation that has happened over the past few months surrounding her health. she happened over the past few months surrounding her health.— happened over the past

let's get further reaction from royal journalist and broadcaster pandora forsyth. his news? did you see this coming ? see this coming? >> yeah. terribly, terribly sad news in this evening, there's been so much speculation online, and really quite some horrible parts of the internet have, have come out , and parts of the internet have, have come out, and now we've parts of the internet have, have come out , and now we've seen come out, and now we've seen this video message. well i hope that will stop the trolling , that will stop the trolling, that will stop the trolling, that has been so prevalent over the past couple of months or so terribly sad news. and i don't want to focus on that. but i do think it is important to note, the princess of wales being so open, as the whole world has been looking at her as what it seems through a microscope and everything the royal family are doing at the moment. and in this message, despite the fact that she has had this terribly sad news in, she's evidently made very clear. now she wants privacy, and that's something that we shou

let's get further reaction from royal journalist and broadcaster pandora forsyth. news? did you see this coming ? see this coming? >> yeah. terribly, terribly sad news in this evening, there's been so much speculation online, and really quite some horrible parts of the internet have, have come out , and parts of the internet have, have come out, and now we've parts of the internet have, have come out , and now we've seen come out, and now we've seen this video message. well i hope that will stop the trolling , that will stop the trolling, that will stop the trolling, that has been so prevalent over the past couple of months or so terribly sad news. and i don't want to focus on that. but i do think it is important to note, the princess of wales being so open, as the whole world has been looking at her as what it seems through a microscope and everything the royal family are doing at the moment. and in this message, despite the fact that she has had this terribly sad news in, she's evidently made very clear. now she wants privacy, and that's something that we should r

let's get more from royal commentator and host of the daily express podcast the royal round up, pandora forsytho, so even more difficult to manipulate it if needed. i think unfortunately because there has been that agenda online for the past couple of weeks, some people still will not be happy until they see catherine back to full—time royal work. she has to rest and we were told she would be coming back to work until at least after easter, and there's no actual confirmed date from kensington palace. why would she come back before that when they've been open about the fact she's had abdominal surgery? that is serious, any surgery is, and you wouldn't want anybody coming back to work before they were fully fit. unfortunately, conspiracy theories online, which we won't go into, but because of the way social media algorithms work, any negative feedback or comments get brought more into your feeds than positives. yes, it has died down a little bit, but there are still people who are still raising these conspiracy theories online, despite this video which we have. there are some people who want to h

let's speak to pandora forsyth who's a royal commentor. welcome to the programme.a clear message that now she and herfamily, despite being on a worldwide stage and under scrutiny for the past few months, needs space, time and privacy to recover and go through this preventative chemotherapy, which i am sure many of us can understand. if anybody had questions as to why we weren't seeing her, until the theories online, i hope this now has put a stop to all of this. you online, i hope this now has put a stop to all of this.— online, i hope this now has put a stop to all of this. you know how much attention _ stop to all of this. you know how much attention the _ stop to all of this. you know how much attention the royal - stop to all of this. you know how much attention the royal family| stop to all of this. you know how i much attention the royal family does attract. what sort of work do you think the royal household and a media team will be doing to try to give her another space to recover? i think the fact that this was very evidently a heartfelt video, it was not a

well, let's speak now to royal expert and journalist pandora forsyth. so what's this all about? meghan markle planning to relaunch her image in the uk. >> yeah morning ladies. happy international women's day two female anchors. we love to see it. yeah. so this is the first time that meghan will have a uk based employee. well, meghan and harry will have a uk based employee since they left , for employee since they left, for sunny california, which is definitely going to, cause, headunes definitely going to, cause, headlines as it already has done. because what does this mean for them now they've obviously tried to relaunch, that their brand, their website, and it obviously is going to lead to questions as to why now, why the business plan change. well, apparently they're launching a very new, exciting project, whatever that means , i project, whatever that means, i can imagine people are saying it's similar to, gwyneth paltrow's goop , lifestyle brand, paltrow's goop, lifestyle brand, but we know as well that harry and meghan are struggling with populari

let's talk to royal expert pandora forsythe, who joins us now. good to see you, pandora.do you make of all of this morning? >> yeah. bad timing. i thought that soon as it happened last that as soon as it happened last night, i thought surely this would be an event in both of their calendars. let's say that they don't talk and they don't share calendars anymore because they're not two separate royal households. would thought households. i would have thought that the diana awards and the diana award last night diana legacy award last night would have just been something that would have been crossed over. that would have been crossed over . i'm that would have been crossed over. i'm really, that would have been crossed over . i'm really, really over. i'm really, really surprised at this because harry was also involved in it and has been involved with it for many years. i mean, it was only a few years. i mean, it was only a few years ago he was up on stage with his brother william. i mean, changed. mean, how times have changed. hey, yeah , really bizarre hey, but yeah, really

. >> joining us now is royal expert and journalist pandora forsyth. pandora, thank you very much.st and do we think she deserves a break? >> yeah. look she's been working really, really hard hasn't she. um, with the with the king and her husband while still looking after him in the background . and after him in the background. and bearin after him in the background. and bear in mind, um, you know, it's not a long break by any means. um, it's a few days, but this comes at a time, um, the comes at a time, um, where the royal family is being looked at under microscope and people under a microscope and people are for, well , for are calling for, well, for charles wanted a slimmed down monarchy. he's he's got what he's wanted. and now they all sort of seem to be falling off, uh, working duties. and people are turning around and saying, well, what's the plan now? well, well, what's the plan now? um, camilla's camilla um, you know, camilla's camilla is going to be out for a few days. catherine's not going to be after easter. we be back until after easter. we had a last minute pull from h