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the world's most advanced economies are meeting injapan, with america signalling it's willingness to back the supply of f—16fighterjets, and the training of ukrainian pilots, in the war with russia. meanwhile, moscow's closest ally in the middle east, syria's bashar al assad, received a warm welcome at a summit of arab leaders in saudi arabia, after years of international isolation. during syria's bloody civil war, it was massive russian military support that allowed assad, condemned by many as a war criminal, to cling onto power. details on that later in the programme — but firs...

leftovers! — this week, i am on canada pacific coast where vancouver lies in the shadow of the mountain range that is the only barrier between the city and one of the worlds most advanced wildernesses. surrounded by water, every year, thousands of people travel here to marvel at the whales as they danced along the whales as they danced along the coastline, returning after a long winter away. british columbia is the most bio diverse territory all of canada. it has seals, and as sea lions and hundreds of other species living in these very waters. it's also home to the biggest port in...

at d—ao minutes. there were just too many technical problems to contend with. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it's newsday. it's 7am in singapore, and 4am in pakistan — where the government says a third of the country is now under water. millions of homes are now destroyed and much of its richest farmland is now flooded. the disaster has killed over 1,100 people and affected 33 million. and the catastrophe isn't over — water is still surging down the indus river, and will flood the low—lying sind province even further over the next few days. latest report...

cheering. time for a look at the weather. here's helen willetts. some beautiful weather watchers last night. as you can see from the skies, these are from highlands scotland but it's a strong our rowrah at the moment so if we get clear skies we may see it. towards the north we have that coming in to parts of scotland and perhaps a bit further south as well. we do have cloudier skies here, you see at the moment, on that weather front. lots of showers and still the remnants of the overnight rain, pacific oceany rain in the south. between it, sow good spells of sunshine and we have lost...

the bomb maker responsible for the murder of more than 200 people nearly 20 years ago in bali could walk free from prison this year. apple has released an urgent security update for its iphones, ipads and macs — after two serious vulnerabilities were found that could allow attackers to gain access to someone�*s device. hello, and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. a series of explosions have been reported at two russian military installations. in sevastopol, in russian—occupied crimea, the governor claimed a ukrainian drone was shot down by anti—aircraf...