good evening. we start tonight with the escalating legal battle between rishi sunak s government and the independent public inquiry, into the handling of the covid pandemic. government officials in the cabinet office missed a deadline, earlier today, to hand over all of boris johnson s private messages and papers, to the inquiry. what s more, the government is now launching a legal challenge, arguing that some of the material is not relevant to the inquiry s work. the chair of the inquiry, baroness hallett, a formerjudge at the court of appeal, says it s for the inquiry to decide what is or is not relevant. and she s hinted that the inquiry could launch its own legal action against the government. labour has accused the government of undermining the work of the inquiry, as our political correspondent alex forsyth reports. the covid pandemic had a huge and lasting impact. now a public inquiry is examining what happened, the decisions taken in government that affected so many l
it s also struggled for years with pro russian rebels. moldova s president said hosting the summit, just 20km from ukraine s border, was a show of solidarity with kyiv. president zelensky has been at the gathering where he emphasised once again that ukraine should be allowed to join both nato and the eu urgently. every european country that borders russia and that does not want russia to tear it apart, should be a full member of the eu and nato. and there are only two alternatives to this either an open war or creeping russian occupation. our correspondentjenny hill is in chisinau for us. today was largely about symbolism, as is often the case with this kind of summit. it s no accident that those european leaders chose to meet here in moldova. of all of ukraine s neighbours, it arguably has the most reason to feel vulnerable in the wake of vladimir putin s full scale invasion of ukraine. moldova is a former soviet state. it s wedged between ukraine and the eu. for many ye
to the bbc news at one. police investigating the death of a 12 year old girl and a 17 year old boy at bournemouth beach yesterday say there was no physical contact between the children and any vessel on the water. eight other people were treated in hospital after the incident yesterday afternoon. a man in his 40s was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. our correspondent duncan kennedy is in bournemouth this lunchtime. this was a distressing incident that played out across a packed beach. it involved and ended in the tragedy of two young lives being lost in the waters behind me. in the past few minutes, dorset police have been holding a press conference and they have gone into a few more details, saying nojet ski have gone into a few more details, saying no jet ski was involved have gone into a few more details, saying nojet ski was involved in the incident and that nobody had beenjumping off the pier behind me. one officer described this as a devastating incident. for seve
and said that his career was now over, and he had lost everything. in his first broadcast interview since he quit itv, he said the relationship only began several years after his first meeting with the young man, who was then 15. mr schofield strongly denies grooming him, but says he regrets the relationship and lying about it when itv tried to investigate. he also said he believed that homophobia had fuelled the media coverage of events. he s been talking to amol rajan. phillip, come on in. good to see you. thank you. thanks for coming in. you ve had quite the week, how are you? um, ithink. i understand how caroline flack felt. last week, if my daughters hadn t been there. ..then i wouldn t be here. and they ve. .. ..guarded me. it s like a weird. ..numbness. you feel strong enough to do this interview? yeah, i have to. why? why do you want to do this interview? because there is an innocent person here who didn t do anything wrong. ijust have to say, stop with him. ok with m
moldova s president said hosting the summit just 20km from ukraine s border, was a show of solidarity with kyiv. president zelensky has been at the gathering where he emphasised once again that ukraine should be allowed to join both nato and the eu urgently. every european country that borders russia and that does not want russia to tear it apart, should be a full member of the eu and nato. and there are only two alternatives to this either an open war or creeping russian occupation. our correspondentjenny hill is in kishi no for us. today was largely about symbolism, as is often the case with this kind of summit. it s no accident that those european leaders chose to meet here in moldova. of all of ukraine s neighbours, it arguably has the most reason to feel vulnerable in the wake of vladimir putin s full scale invasion of ukraine. moldova is a former soviet state. it s wedged between ukraine and the eu. for many years it s been heavily dependent on moscow for fuel, forf