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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 tru...

To political supporters and former aides include three life peerages, one for ex vote leave chief matthew elliott, another for businessmen and conservative donor john moynihan, and thirdly, ruth porter, a long term adviser. There were also damehoods for the writer and maths education campaigner Shirley Conran and the former conservative Ministerjackie Doyle price. Another ex conservative minister Alec Shelbrooke gets a knighthood. Critics have expressed dismay at the list. Remember, liz truss was prime Ministerfor Ao odd days. She and her conservative colleagues pushed the economy off a cliff....

with authorjilly cooper, glastonbury festival founder michael eavis, and england lionesses�* captain millie bright all in line for new titles. they're notjust for famous faces — the majority of honours have been given to people who are not in the public eye. our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba reports. her books have sold in their millions. noinlly cooper has been made a dame for services to literature and charity. i can't quite believe it, it's so lovely. when they told me, i got the letter and i thought, "gosh, this can't be me. me, blockbusterjill?" but it was lovely. ...

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 beir...

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 verifie...