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ukraine produces enough grain every year to feed 400 million people. along with russia, it exports one third of the worlds entire wheat harvest. or, at least, it should. but russias blockade of ukrainian ports means millions of tonnes of grain are going nowhere, prompting the head of the uns world food programme to call it a "declaration of war on global food security" that could push tens of millions of people into severe food shortages. our economics editor faisal islam reports. acro...

and ask where the emergence of these photos now leaves the prime minister. also on the programme: nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, held in iran for six years, tells the bbc she was forced to sign a false confession before leaving, while a uk official stood by. i was made to sign the false confession — at the airport, in the presence of the british government. i know that that was like a last—minute game. a female health worker at birmingham childrens hospital is arrested, on suspicion ...

a social gathering, that was clearly against the rules at the time. now, borisjohnson knows this and he knew this all along, and hes just trying to lie to the british public, and it seems like hes laughing at them now. any day now, the senior official sue gray will publish her report and its expected more images will be unveiled. well have more on the latest revelations and the new questions for the metropolitan police on the way they decided who should be fined. also tonight... nazani...

And barley using traditional breeding methods for decades. theyre planning to use gene editing because they believe itll keep food on our shelves at affordable prices. when were developing new varieties like these, that you see in the packages here, that takes around 12 years, typically. with precision breeding techniques, we can significantly shorten that timescale and bring new varieties to the market much faster. in 1999, worried protesters trampled gm crops. since then, scientific reviews ha...

Changed their minds. mark linus was there. crops have been in the ground now for a quarter of a century. we know theyre safe, and we also know its a technology that can be very useful for increasing the sustainability of agriculture, to reduce pesticides, to help crops adapt to climate change, to feed a growing world population. but a large proportion of the population still have their doubts, especially that the new gene—edited crops wont be labelled, and they worry that the regulation wont b...