ukraine suffers another intense night of russian bombardment, leaving at least five people dead. ukraine s air defence claims 35 drones were shot down. the uk government says it has met a promise to clear a large part of the backlog of asylum claims with more than 112,000 cases processed last year. 0n verified today, has the government cleared the legacy asylum backlog? we ve been looking at the numbers and it s a lot more complicated than ministers have claimed. hello, i m rajini vaidyanathan welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. hello, i m rajini vaidyanathan welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. five japanese coastguard crew have been killed in a collision between their plane and a japan airlines passengerjet at tokyo s haneda airport. dramatic pictures showed the airbus a350 passenger plane ablaze as it travelled at speed down the runway. all 379
doomed to we come on air with some breaking news, a hamas. was killed. three other people were killed. three other people were killed in the attack, the deputy head of hamas political bureau deeply involved in his military affairs. and the founder of its military wing. this took a stronghold of the hezbollah group. you can see there at these pictures just coming into us at the moment. this is of course a developing story, and it s been confirmed by an official from hamas that they are deputy has been killed. in that attack, and these pictures there just coming into us from beirut, and we are, at the moment, awaiting a response from the israeli government and we will have more on that at the moment, just showing you those pictures that are just coming into us of the aftermath of that attack. a statement said more than 200 people have been killed by israeli strikes, israeli forces have stepped up strikes, israeli forces have stepped up their bombardment of khan younis in south
over the last couple of hours in the middle east. middle east hamas says its deputy leader has been killed in an explosion in lebanon. hezbollah says his kidding will not go unanswered . saleh al arouri was deputy chairman of hamas s political bureau but is also known to have been deeply involved in its military affairs. hamas is designated a terrorist organisation by many western governments. this is the aftermath of the explosion thought to be hamas office in beirut. reports six people killed. local media have described this as an israeli drone attack. the bbc hasn t verified that. the israeli military has told the bbc that it will not comment on reports in the foreign media. the un has described the beirut strike as extremely worrying . a spokesperson for the un secretary general. we know that the secretary general urges all parties to exercise maximum restraint and take urgent steps to de escalate tensions in the region. i mean, he was very clear in mentioning that th
are trapped beneath rubble after monday s powerful earthquake. ukraine suffers another intense night of russian bombardment, leaving at least five people dead. ukraine s air defence claims 35 drones were shot down. the uk government says it has met a promise to clear a large part of the backlog of asylum claims with more than 112,000 cases processed last year. 0n terrified today, has the government creo the legacy asylum backlog? we ve been looking at the numbers and it s a lot more complicated than ministers have claimed. hello, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. five japanese coast guard crew have been killed in a collision between their plane and a japan airlines passenger jet at tokyo s haneda airport. dramatic tv pictures showed the airbus a350 passenger plane ablaze as it travelled at speed down the runway. all 379 passengers and crew were evacuated safely, before the plane was completely engulfed in flam
jean mackenzie, bbc news, in noto peninsula, injapan. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let s look at some other stories making news here in the uk. a man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a 46 year old man in sheffield. chris marriott a father of two was hit by a car while trying to help a stranger. hassanjhangur who s 23 was remanded in custody. a target for the number of high powered electric vehicle charge points near motorways has been missed, according to the rac. the government wanted every motorway service station in england to have at least six rapid or ultra rapid chargers by the end of last year. data suggests only four in ten now meet this criteria.