chiefjens stoltenberg has been discussing the importance of nato�*s strength and for europe sticking together and remaining strong. we also heard from the ukrainian foreign secretary, talking about the importance of military aid to ukraine. so there isjens stoltenberg walking in there. let's have a listen to what he said earlier. to nato, the united states has more friends and more allies than any other major power. i don't believe in america alone. just as i don't believe in europe alone. i believe in america and europe together in naito. i believe in america and europe together in nato. that was jens stoltenberg speaking aefrlier. earlier. you can see the live scenes in brussels, where he is continuing to meet other foreign representatives there. the british foreign secretary lord cameron has said he's working to get ukraine and nato into the best possible shape by november, ahead of the us election. speaking to the lucy hockings and vitaly shevchenko for bbc s ukrainecast podcast he also ruled out western boots on the ground in ukraine. what nato�*s looking at is a nato mission for ukraine, not a nato mission for ukraine, not a nato mission in ukraine. it is making sure that we use nato�*s architecture to help deliver some of the support that ukraine needs. but fundamentally i think that we should do everything we can to help ukraine. that has been britain's position. i think it is not escalatory to say we are going to help this independent sovereign country to fight off an aggressor and we will help them to do that. you don't see the prospect of nato boots on the ground in ukraine? ma. boots on the ground in ukraine? no. i think that boots on the ground in ukraine? firm i think that we don't want to give putin a target like that. and nato can do lots of things to better co—ordinate the help we give to ukraine. but fundamentally for countries like britain and those supporting ukraine, this is a question of political will. do we have the patience, the will, are we prepared to give the resources. in britain's case definitely the answer is yes. britain's case definitely the answer is es. . . , britain's case definitely the answer is es. . ., ., ., is yes. that was lord cameron, the uk foreign — is yes. that was lord cameron, the uk foreign secretary _ is yes. that was lord cameron, the uk foreign secretary speaking - uk foreign secretary speaking earlier to my colleagues. you can hear more on that, that was part of the ukraine podcast. you're seeing images of the meeting in brussels to celebrate the 75th anniversary of nato. we can can speak to our defence correspondent who is there. in terms of the biggest challenges facing nato, one of the key points an the agenda is funding for ukraine? , ., , an the agenda is funding for ukraine? , . , ., , , ., ukraine? yes, what is happening at the moment _ ukraine? yes, what is happening at the moment is _ ukraine? yes, what is happening at the moment is they _ ukraine? yes, what is happening at the moment is they have _ ukraine? yes, what is happening at the moment is they have had - ukraine? yes, what is happening at the moment is they have had the i the moment is they have had the celebrations earlier today and they had a cake and a nato hymn and gave speeches, where you heard jens stoltenberg talking of the importance of america needing to be a partner with europe and europe needing to work with america. in other words america should not go it alone. that is a reference, a fear i think that is in europe about what might happen in the donald trump is elected a second term. but i think there are two things. first, the focus on ukraine immediately. that is that evenjens stoltenberg has admitted ukraine hasn't run out of courage, but it is running out of ammunition. what they can do now and also the longer term of what some call the trump—proof plan. if he became president and withdrew support for ukraine, that would cause problems for ukraine and therefore european allies need to step up. whatjens stoltenberg is looking at is creating a fund for five years of about 100 billion euros to fund ukraine's military support for the long—term and taking over what the us has led, which is the co—ordination of the supply of weapons and ammunition to ukraine. that is offer referred to as ramstien and co—ordinating the training. that is the focus. they're not going to reach an agreement on it here. they're going to discuss it and hope len it when it comes to summit in washington where the treaty was signed, which is on show here for the first time. they believe be able injuly when the summit happens to agree a long—term plan and support for ukraine. that is the plan. plan and support for ukraine. that is the plan-— is the plan. thank you. you are seeinu is the plan. thank you. you are seeing live _ is the plan. thank you. you are seeing live pictures _ is the plan. thank you. you are seeing live pictures there - is the plan. thank you. you are seeing live pictures there from | seeing live pictures there from brussels now where jens stoltenberg is opening proceedings. let's have a listen. , ., ., ., ., , ., listen. ok. if you now are able to find our listen. ok. if you now are able to find your seats, _ listen. ok. if you now are able to find your seats, we _ listen. ok. if you now are able to find your seats, we can _ listen. ok. if you now are able to find your seats, we can start. - that also applies for... for all of you actually. laughter. fine then. we are ready to startment good morning and welcome to this meeting of the ukraine council. russia's war against ukraine has entered its third year. as ukraine continues to fight for its freedom, allies continue to support ukraine. the situation on the battlefield is difficult. this is an argument for stepping up our support, not scaling town. —— scaling down. we will address ukraine's urgent needs including how to strengthen nato support for ukraine. we agreed a package to bring ukraine closer to nato. and as we prepare for our washington summit we are working to ukraine's membership of nato. this matters for ours and ukraine's security. we look forward to hearing from you today mr hlebber, it good to have you. the meeting will continue injust to have you. the meeting will continue in just a to have you. the meeting will continue injust a moment. thank you so much. continue in 'ust a moment. thank you so much. ., ., , continue in 'ust a moment. thank you so much. . ., _ , continue in 'ust a moment. thank you so much. . , ,, ., , so much. that was jens stoltenberg there with some _ so much. that was jens stoltenberg there with some opening _ so much. that was jens stoltenberg there with some opening remarks i so much. that was jens stoltenberg | there with some opening remarks in brussels, where as i mentioned, they are marking the 75th anniversary of nato. as you heard earlierfrom our correspondent who is there for us, the alliance has agreed to start planning for a greater role in co—ordinating military aid to ukraine. we will bring you more on that. we are expecting that the ukrainian foreign sect foreign secretary is likely to make more remarks. we will bring you more on that story as it develops. let's now turn to the middle east, where calls for an independent investigation into the death of seven aid workers killed by israeli air strikes on a convoy in gaza earlier this week are growing. the non—governmental organisation that employed the aid workers — the world central kitchen — has released a statement calling on "the governments of australia, canada, the us, poland and the uk tojoin us in an investigation into the attacks". they added "an independent investigation is the only way to determine the truth of what happened and to prevent future attacks on humanitarian aid workers". israel has called the incident on monday a mistaken air strike. the un has supended overnight aid operations in the strip for at least 48 hours "to evaluate security" in the wake of the attack on monday. the head of the world central kitchen has accused israel of deliberately targeting his staff. israel's economy minister nir barkat has told bbc news it's nonsense to suggest that the idf deliberately targeted aid workers. there's no way in the world that israel would target people that come to give people aid. that's nonsense. i'm sorry. give us a bit of of respect that we care about those people. and it's the same people that helped israel. we will never target people like this. i'm sure that there was a mistake done in the way and it'll be... ..the israeli army will interrogate this and give the families of the of the people that, unfortunately were killed all the details. and we want to make sure it doesn't happen again. 0ur middle east correspondent — yolande knell — brought us the latest from jerusalem. we have the israeli military saying that it we have the israeli military saying thatitis we have the israeli military saying that it is conducting this thorough investigation, it is also reviewing proceedings and saying that its looking at setting up a joint situation room where you could have the israeli military working with international organisations to co—ordinate the distribution of aid on the ground. there is still continuing fall out from this and the us presidentjoe biden is expected to speak for the first time since the killing of these aid workers, he is supposed to speak to the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu. he has said that he is outraged by what happened. but what he has not shown is any willingness to use more of the us leverage against israel when it comes to its dissatisfaction with the conduct of war and the us military assistance thatis war and the us military assistance that is given. we had comments overnight from if us secretary of defence lloyd austin talking to his israeli counter part. we are told that he was demanding concrete steps to improve the co—ordination with different foreign aid groups and said this was going to complicate efforts to flood gaza with aid, which was the commitment they have had from the israelis and also made a connection here between american concerns about the idea of ground offensive by israel, a full—scale offensive by israel, a full—scale offensive in rafah. the us concerns about that have been on humanitarian grounds, because of the numbers of displaced people there. interestingly we also heard comments from an israeli diplomatic correspondent about rishi sunak�*s conversation with the israeli prime minister, particularly related to the death of the three britons who were killed in this israeli air strike in gaza. and he was saying, the correspondent said, that if there was no change in the situation regarding humanitarian aid getting into gaza, the uk might have to declare israel in violation of international humanitarian law. that is something that would have real consequences, downing street has not wanted to go beyond its initial read out of the conversation between the two prime ministers, it has not commented on what we have heard here in israel. here in the uk, three former supreme courtjustices have joined more than 600 legal experts in calling for the government to end weapons sales to israel. one of those former justices is lord sumption. talking to the bbc — he explained why he decided to sign the letter. i was sent a copy of it. i thought that it was a persuasive and moderately expressed letter, which makes some very important points that the uk government seems to be losing sight of. the most important point is that article 1 of the genocide convention requires states to do what they can to prevent genocide. now, it has not yet been determined whether what the israelis are doing is genocide. the icj, the international court of justice, is considering that issue, but they have already ruled that there is a plausible case that that is what is going on in gaza. and it seems to me that if you have a duty, as we do, in international law, to prevent genocide, and there is a plausible case that that is what is happening you should do what you can to obstruct it. i was joined earlier by the bbc�*s political correspondent — hannah miller to discuss the response to this letter in westminster this clearly a kind of growing weight of voices behind this call for the uk to suspend arms sales. there is a handful of conservative mps now saying that the deaths of uk aid workers must be a line in the sand. that is a call from paul bristow, the peterborough mp. adding to that there is the former foreign office minister sir alan duncan, who 0ffice minister sir alan duncan, who said it can no longer be justified that we send arms over to israel. he previously had responsibility for looking at who gets export licences and where arms can go. i would say though that there are conservative mps who believe that the uk must stand by israel, including the former home secretary suella braverman, who visited israel this week and lord frost, who said israel must notjust be allowed, it must be enabled to win this war, because it is in our national interest to do so. in that sense there is no at kind of united uniform view within the conservative party, but there is added weight behind the calls for the uk to suspend arms sales. labour's position is to ask for the government to publish its legal advice on the issue. they say if that legal advice shows israel hasn't been meeting its international obligations, then arms sales should be suspended. that is a more nuanced view than the snp and the liberal democrats who have been calling for arms sales to be suspended. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's turn to taiwan now — and rescue efforts are underway after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake there. at least nine people were killed, more than 1,00 injured in the strongest quake to hit taiwan in 25 years. now, more than 600 people are understood to be trapped in collapsed tunnels along the coastline. around 30 buildings are reported to have collapsed altogether. 0ur correspondent shaimaa khalil reports. 0n taiwan's east coast, the rescue operation continues in the most challenging of circumstances. teams are searching for those still trapped. but so much is in the way. the huge destruction and the dozens of tremors that followed. translation: i'm afraid of aftershocks and i don't know how bad the shaking will be. and then the house is already a mess. how do you get in? there's no way to get in. in hualien, the worst hit city, some people spent the night outdoors as the aftershocks continued. this is the moment the earthquake hit, as residents were getting ready to start their day. translation: the earthquake woke me up and we just stayed around here across from the night market. it's terrible. this earthquake is huge. homes and businesses buckled, leaving whole floors underground. this partially collapsed building, now left tilted and unstable, threatens more damage with the continuing tremors. but in taiwan's rugged, mountainous east coast, it was the landslides that unleashed the most terror. the earthquake caused hundreds of them, bringing huge rocks tumbling down valleys, destroying roads and railway lines, and blocking access to the area. this beautiful landscape turned into a scene of horror. and for those still trapped in collapsed tunnels and roads, that horror is not over yet. shaimaa khalil, bbc news, tokyo. now to live pictures of some people who have been rescued. these are live pictures from a national park where some people have been rescued from the park. they have arrived at a makeshift command centre. being looked after. let's speak to sana hashmi, she is a fellow at the taiwan—asia exchange foundation and was in taipei when the earthquake hit. thank you forjoining us. let's start with what happened. it must have been terrifying. what did you witness? ., , have been terrifying. what did you witness? . , ., witness? early in the morning, it was 8am and _ witness? early in the morning, it was 8am and in _ witness? early in the morning, it was 8am and in taiwan, - witness? early in the morning, it was 8am and in taiwan, people i witness? early in the morning, it i was 8am and in taiwan, people are used to earthquakes, so it was, it wasn't really scary when it happened. but it was very different from the past earthquakes. the intensity and duration was longer and stronger and it was clear that this is not business at usual at that point. so definitely frightening, but the good thing was it was not in the midnight or not during the night when people are sleeping. people were more aware about what they're supposed to do. i feel this is something what helped at that point of time. home feel this is something what helped at that point of time.— at that point of time. how was it different from _ at that point of time. how was it different from previous - at that point of time. how was it - different from previous experiences? do you mean in terms of the quality of the buildings? first do you mean in terms of the quality of the buildings?— of the buildings? first of all the intensity of _ of the buildings? first of all the intensity of the _ of the buildings? first of all the intensity of the quake _ of the buildings? first of all the intensity of the quake was - intensity of the quake was different, if you compare with what happened in 1999, and what happened yesterday, the quality of building of course is much better, the buildings are earthquake resistant and when it happened in 1999 there were over 21100 casualties. yesterday i think there were only nine casualties. even if the number is going to go up, it won't go up significantly. there was a robust system in place, although it was strong. i think the government were able to respond to it swiftly. they got people out of the rubble quickly. ifeel it got people out of the rubble quickly. i feel it was very difference. different. it was different in intensity and how the government responded. i5 different in intensity and how the government responded.- government responded. is the government — government responded. is the government getting _ government responded. is the government getting enough i government responded. is the government getting enough support from t international community and there is the political dimension of it means for china?— it means for china? taiwan is caettin it means for china? taiwan is getting coverage _ it means for china? taiwan is getting coverage from - it means for china? taiwan is getting coverage from the . it means for china? taiwan is . getting coverage from the media it means for china? taiwan is - getting coverage from the media and the governments. the us and japan and other countries have offered help to taiwan. i feel when it is usual developments taiwan is not, it doesn't get a lot of attention. but when there is a crisis, so i feel taiwan and perhaps these countries are also turning this crisis. if you look at the filipino prime minister, a lot of leader talked about the resilience of taiwan. this is something we don't usually see. there is talk about the indian prime minister's tweet on taiwan, that was unprecedented. that was the first time that he tweeted about taiwan and talked about the resilience of the islands. and resilience of the people. ifeel it the islands. and resilience of the people. i feel it was different from the past developments that have happened. so it is taiwan is getting a lot of coverage.— a lot of coverage. thank you so much. a lot of coverage. thank you so much- we _ a lot of coverage. thank you so much. we have _ a lot of coverage. thank you so much. we have to _ a lot of coverage. thank you so much. we have to leave - a lot of coverage. thank you so much. we have to leave it - a lot of coverage. thank you so i much. we have to leave it there. thank you for your time and i'm glad you weren't too badly affected by the earthquake. the installation of new security scanners in airports has been delayed by up to a year. it means that passengers will still need to remove liquids and laptops out of hand luggage this summer, and potentially for another 12 months. 0ur transport correspondent katy austin explains. change is coming to airport security. new high tech scanners should eventually mean the end of the current liquids rules. at the moment, any liquids you take through in your hand luggage have to be no more than 100ml, and you have to take them out and put them in a plastic bag like this. with the new machines in place, they can all stay in your bag and you can also take through liquids that are up to two litres in size. there we go. laptops can stay in the bag as well. but some major airports won't have all their updated equipment installed by the most recent deadline, the 1st ofjune. the government has now granted extensions past that date, but no more than a year, where it thinks there's been a genuinely good reason, like supply chain delays or construction work to cope with the huge weight of the scanners. it's considering fining any who don't meet their new deadlines. so as a general rule, the restrictions on what you can take in carry—on bags will stay the same for the time being. on friday, bbc breakfast asked the boss of manchester airport what people should expect there this summer. the vast majority of airports in the uk will still be in the process of switching out their scanners, just like we will be. so our message to passengers is please do come with your liquids in a liquid bag less than 100ml and make sure you get your laptop out. but the advice this summer is going to be check before you travel. experts say that will avoid delays. if passengers are well aware beforehand of what they can take, what they can't take, and then they can prepare appropriately before they go through security. and that is the responsibility, joint responsibility of the airport, the airline, but also passengers themselves. and even when the rules change in the uk, check what applies at your destination airport so you don't get caught out coming home. katy austin, bbc news. stay with us here on bbc news. hello. the weather in the next few days does remain unsettled with further spells of rain, and some sunshine, some hill snow in scotland. but this weekend it is going to turn warmer and also windier. we could have the warmest day of the year somewhere in the south—east or east anglia during the course of saturday. low pressure that has brought the rain this morning pull away, but another one is bringing more rain into the south—west through this afternoon. in between cloud and a few showers. the rain continuing to push away. showers developing behind it. some bright spells with the rain arriving, with brisker winds int south. in the northern ireland and northern england and scotland a lot of cloud and some brighter breaks. some patchy rain. feeling cold in the north—west. milderfurther south with highs of 16. tonight the rain continues to advance north and east. as it bumps into the cold air in scotland it will turn to snow down to about 100 metres in the highlands. and windy in the west. and another band of rain moving across wales. very mild in the south for the time of year. but cold in the north. as we head through tomorrow, the first band of rain clears eastern england and the other end pushes north across scotland with hill snow. more rain in northern ireland and pushing north and east across scotland. further south, feeling mild in any sunshine. a few showers around. but that milder air pushing a bit further north during the day. as we head into saturday, the rain moves north and it will be a windy day with sunshine and showers coming in. the risk of gales. but windy wherever you are. again we are looking at it being mild across the board. temperatures higher and we could hit 21 celsius. as we head into sunday, it is going to be a day of sunshine and showers and longer spells of rain in north—west scotland. and there could be gales. it still going to be windy. temperatures down a little bit, but still high for the time of year with 10 in lerwick to 17 in norwich. this is bbc news, the headlines... lord cameron rules out western boots on the ground in ukraine. he tells the bbc — allies need to step up or risk the war being lost. the world central kitchen charity calls for an independent investigation into the israeli strikes that killed seven members of its team in gaza. the race to rescue hundreds of people still missing in taiwan as after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake killed at least nine people and injured more than a thousand. another year of removing liquids from luggage for airline passengers leaving the uk. thank you forjoining us. a reminder of our top story — foreign ministers from nato are gathered in brussels to mark the alliance's 75th anniversary. nato started with 12 members but now has 32 with the newest being finland and sweden. meanwhile, the uk foreign secretary lord cameron has said he is working to get ukraine and nato, into the best possible "shape by november, ahead of the us election. speaking to the bbc�*s ukrainecast, he also ruled out western boots on the ground in ukraine. what nato is looking at is a nato mission for ukraine, not a nato