President zelensky has repeatedly called for permission to use the weapons on targets across the border. He claims it is the only way to end the war. Our political editor, chris mason, has sent this report from the white house. I think the next few weeks and months could be crucial. What does President Biden make of russias threats against the west . I dont think much about that. This is the Blue Room of the white house, the president , the Prime Minister and their team spoke here for about an hour and a half. The war in ukraine dominated the conversation. Afterwards, Sir Keir Starmer wouldnt be drawn on whether he had persuaded the president That Authorising Ukraine To Fire Western Missiles at russia was a good idea. Instead, he said. Theres only One reason were having these discussions and thats because putin has illegally invaded ukraine and the quickest way to resolve this, obviously, lies through what putin actually does. Because its for him to end this, but we are having the disc
Been following the story. It would seem to be in crisis. Without a house for the next two editions. Although they insist there is ongoing dialogue with potential hosts. Prepared to meet all the financial demands of staging such a Big Multisport event has become increasingly difficult. Manchester city boss, pep guardiola, says croatian defender Josko Gvardiol is having a medical and should complete his move from rb leipzig in the next hours. Its the Community Shield on sunday treble winners City Play Arsenal in the friendly at wembley. Arsenal finished second to city last season in the premier league, and guardiola is expecting them to push his side close again this season, and says they wont be the only rivals. Everybody knows that if you start every season send the same, that is my feeling. It is not one or two, there are lots of teams that are going to fight for everything and the challenge is massive for us. How we deal with it mentally and how we go as a Team Football wise and sust
this was the moment he arrived at the prime minister s residence in rome, where he was greeted by italian president sergio mattarella. shortly after this, he met the italian prime minister, giorgia meloni. she s been one of ukraine s more vocal backers, although polls suggest that italian people overall are opposed to sending ukraine more weapons, as are some of her coalition partners. more now from the bbc s sofia bettiza in rome. more than 1000 security officers have been deployed in rome today. this is the first time the president zelensky visits italy since russia invaded ukraine last year. he has had a meeting with his counterpart, the italian president. they had a private meeting that lasted for about 25 minutes and some of the things that they discussed were economic sanctions against russia, the kidnapping of ukrainian children, the need to step up the fight against pro kremlin fake news and ukrainejoining the european union. after the meeting, president zelensky said
nicola bulley issue a new appeal for information, her husband says he ll never give up hope. and the manchester city boss, pep guardiola, says he s convinced the club will be found innocent of breaking financial rules. and coming up in sporstday, later in the hour on the bbc news channel: we ll look ahead to six nations champions, with all eyes on dublin, where favourites ireland take on the grand slam champions france. good evening. five days after the terrible earthquakes in turkey and syria, which have killed more than 22,000 people, hope is fading of finding more survivors. but there are still some astonishing tales of hope. like this eight year old girl, tanem, who was rescued earlier today, in southern turkey, along with her father, after more than 100 hours under the rubble. time, though, is running out. we ll hear from the bbc s teams across the region, including for the first time from the government held city of aleppo in north west syria. it is extremely difficult
0n the second and the third day after the earthquake, they are finding a lot of people. they are hardly finding anyone now, almost no one as friends of missing nicola bulley, issue a new appeal for information, her husband says, he ll never give up hope. and, the manchester city boss, pep guardiola, says he s confident, the club will be found innocent, of breaking financial rules. and coming up on the bbc news channel, we look ahead to the second weekend of the six nations. scotland face wales, hoping to make it two wins from two. good evening. us fighterjets have shot down an unidentified object over alaska. the pentagon says president biden, gave the order, after it was detected yesterday. it s unclear what the object was, but officials say it was the size of a small car. last week, a chinese balloon was shot down, off the coast of south carolina, with beijing saying it was a civilian device, for monitoring the weather. well in the last couple of hours the pentagon, gave th