this is why henry ward is so baffled by today's government funding snub. would be here. you can see the water level that the floodwater came to in this straw shed. henry ward is entitled to a small payment for a parcel of land elsewhere that was flooded but his main farm remains out of action and his calls for government help continue to go unheeded. paul murphy, bbc news. just before we leave you this hour, some breaking news that is coming to us from vietnam. a vietnamese property tycoon has been sentenced to death for defrauding a bank of billions of dollars. the 67—year—old was found guilty of embezzlement, bribing state officials and violating bank lending conditions. it's been described as one of the greatest bank fraud is the world has ever seen. we'll have more than that in the next hour. now the weather with carol kirkwood. hello again. it's been a fairly cloudy start to the day, but the cloud breaking up for most of us away from the english channel and irish sea coasts, where we'll hang onto some murky conditions through the day. but for most, it

this is why henry ward is so baffled by today's government funding snub.flooded but his main farm remains out of action and his calls for government help continue to go unheeded. paul murphy, bbc news. now it's a big day in the games industry — the bafta gaming awards take place later today in london. gaming is big business here in the uk — sales topped more than £4.7 billion last year — more than double that of the music industry. this marks the twentieth year of the gaming baftas. 2023 was widely considered to be one of the best years ever in the industry. our reporter laura cress looked ahead to the awards this evening. gaming has been in the mainstream for a long, long time now, especially in the uk. the uk is the largest video game sector in europe. i think it's great that bafta recognises the value of the gaming industry and has been doing so for 20 years now. you talked about how it is such big business in the uk. a £4.7 billion industry, which makes double that of the music industry in terms of sales. that's right. it's funny, we always think about

that has been the worst flooded, i believe, since last october, has been up in lincolnshire and henry wardoung farmer that runs it. and henry joins me down the line right now. henry, this has been a nightmare for you since october, i believe. >> yeah , it has. so, yeah. >> yeah, it has. so, yeah. thanks for having me, nigel. but yeah, it just feels like i'm been living in a nightmare. as you say. we flooded. we've been flooded for basically six months now. lost all my crops, and we're still flooded now . we're still flooded now. >> and the farm house itself is completely cut off. yeah. >> it is. so today was the first time that i've managed to get to the farmhouse and yard in my truck, up until that point, it was only accessible by boat, so it's been mothballed. i've not, you know, we had to evacuate pregnant sheep. pregnant youths out of their, in an emergency when it flooded . it's been an when it flooded. it's been an absolute nightmare, as i say , absolute nightmare, as i say, we're we're still flooded there now. we're not going to be able to, get a spring crop planted, so on that bloc

henry ward is entitled to _ this store shed. henry ward is entitled to a _ this store shed. and his calls for government help continue to go unheeded. paul murphy, bbc news. time now is 6:53am. if you are heading abroad for a holiday this year and you need a new passport, it's going to cost you more from today. ben is here to take us through the changes. it can be that last—minute sting, you pulled this out of a drawer before holiday and realise it needs renewing. if you were in that position, doing that will cost more from today. let me the details. good morning. the price of a uk passport has gone up from today. it's the second price hike in just over 14 months. an online application for a new or renewed adult passport will now set you back £88.50, an increase of £6 from before. the cost of applying for a child's passport online is also going up from this amount by £4 to £57.50. this doesn't just apply to online applications — but to postal ones too which have also increased in price. up from £93 to £100 for adults. and for a child it's now £69 instead of £64. it costs mor

further punished by this war by the response to the war i mean, the harriet the great minister henry ward beecher, he struck a very different tone. lincoln just just few weeks after the second inaugural, when he was at the the dedication, the re raising of the flag at fort sumter and is comments are just extraordinary. he says beecher place the whole guilt of the war upon. the ambitious, educated, plodding political leaders of the south. they have shed an ocean of blood. their day of trial and punishment would come the southern rebels, he said, be world aloft and plunged down forever and forever. in an retribution. now compare that to the tone of the the second inauguration and even on the afternoon of lincoln's death, congressman george washington julian met with fellow radical and he wrote in diary their hostility lincoln's policy of conciliation and contempt for his weakness were undisguised and the universal feeling among radical men here that his death is a godsend. hmm. yeah. so this the. the kind of emotion and he was dealing with. he was trying to really thread needle between the