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:01:12. > :01:14.It's been a day of claim and counter-claim over who did what

:01:15. > :01:16.after Russia denied attacking schools and hospitals

:01:17. > :01:18.in Syria's Idlib province in the town of Maarat al-Numan,

:01:19. > :01:21.leaving at least 50 people dead and many more wounded.

:01:22. > :01:24.The UN Secretary General said the strikes

:01:25. > :01:25.were a violation of international law.

:01:26. > :01:28.Medicins Sans Frontieres put it more bluntly - calling them a war crime.

:01:29. > :01:30.And while the Turkish Foreign Ministry blames Russia,

:01:31. > :01:33.has accused US planes of carrying out bombings.

:01:34. > :01:36.The United Nations special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura,

:01:37. > :01:38.has been meeting the Syrian Foreign Minister in Damascus

:01:39. > :01:40.in an effort to restart peace talks next week.

:01:41. > :01:42.Our Diplomatic Correspondent Bridget Kendall reports.

:01:43. > :01:45.What looks like a Russian fighter jet in the skies

:01:46. > :01:57.Imagine being in one those buildings.

:01:58. > :02:05.Apparently north of the city of Aleppo yesterday.

:02:06. > :02:08.And this is the sort of damage being caused from footage supplied

:02:09. > :02:18.The strikes are widely blamed on Russian and Syrian forces.

:02:19. > :02:22.And after yesterday's direct hits on hospitals and a school,

:02:23. > :02:24.where they are still looking for victims,

:02:25. > :02:29.and today, Britain's Foreign Secretary added his voice to those

:02:30. > :02:32.who say that it could amount to a war crime.

:02:33. > :02:36.There is mounting alarm across the rest of Europe.

:02:37. > :02:41.The Russian bombing in Syria leaves us with little hope.

:02:42. > :02:45.The Assad regime is strengthened and the moderate Syrian opposition

:02:46. > :02:53.is weakened and Europe is flooded with a new wave of refugees.

:02:54. > :02:56.The Syrian army, with its Russian and Iranian backers,

:02:57. > :02:59.insists they are advancing into northern Syria

:03:00. > :03:02.and that this will liberate areas from terrorists.

:03:03. > :03:06.Today, Russia angrily denied it had bombed hospitals.

:03:07. > :03:09.In Moscow, the Syrian ambassador went on Russian TV to cast blame

:03:10. > :03:16.There is no excuse for targeting innocent civilians,

:03:17. > :03:24.but at the same time the battlefield around Aleppo is very complex.

:03:25. > :03:26.Not only so-called moderate rebels backed by the West

:03:27. > :03:37.more extremist fighters from one group

:03:38. > :03:41.who are linked to Al-Qaeda and designated a terrorist group

:03:42. > :03:44.And that's why Russia and Syria insist

:03:45. > :03:48.Meanwhile, in Damascus the United Nations special envoy was urging the

:03:49. > :03:50.Syrian government to agree to local truces to allow food drops into

:03:51. > :03:57.But a wider ceasefire looks further away than ever.

:03:58. > :04:14.Ukraine's Prime Minister is facing a vote of no confidence,

:04:15. > :04:16.Ukraine's Prime Minister has survived a vote of no

:04:17. > :04:18.after the country's president called on him to resign

:04:19. > :04:20.and parliament rated his government "unsatisfactory".

:04:21. > :04:22.Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk was updating the country's parliament

:04:23. > :04:23.on his government's performance in 2015.

:04:24. > :04:26.have resigned from the government in recent days

:04:27. > :04:28.and there is frustration at a perceived lack of progress

:04:29. > :04:31.The Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said

:04:32. > :04:34.that the Prime Minister and his cabinet have lost public trust.

:04:35. > :04:36.Later, Mr Yatsenyuk lost a vote on his government's record,

:04:37. > :04:39.but survived a no confidence measure by just over 30 votes.

:04:40. > :04:45.With me now is Irena Taranyuk from the BBC Ukranian Service.

:04:46. > :04:51.They got through in the last hour or so, but where does this leave the

:04:52. > :04:55.Government, are they actually much safer or not? They will be no saved,

:04:56. > :05:00.because no other no-confidence motion can be tabled in Parliament

:05:01. > :05:05.during the current session -- they will be now saved. That is until

:05:06. > :05:10.that least autumn and Arseniy Yatsenyuk has the chance to be the

:05:11. > :05:14.first pro-Mac Phillips postindependence Prime Minister to

:05:15. > :05:19.be in his post for two years in a row -- the first postindependence

:05:20. > :05:22.promise. It was a day full of drama and horsemanship and it is obvious

:05:23. > :05:27.there is an element of show, political show there. The address of

:05:28. > :05:31.the president, calling on the Prime Minister to resign. The Prime

:05:32. > :05:39.Minister jokingly imploring the MPs to give him five minutes because it

:05:40. > :05:44.might be my last report. It was very playful. The journalists were

:05:45. > :05:48.commenting on the fact that Petro Poroshenko, his political foe, was

:05:49. > :05:55.sporting a new hairstyle and wearing a new dress in anticipation of the

:05:56. > :06:03.event, because she cannot forgive Yatsenyuk's former betrayal. So 30

:06:04. > :06:07.votes in parliament is what saved Yatsenyuk's skin and it will bring

:06:08. > :06:12.huge relief both to the current government and Ukraine's Western

:06:13. > :06:18.backers, because the last thing Ukraine as a country needed now, in

:06:19. > :06:23.the midst of economic crisis, in the midst of still in stability and

:06:24. > :06:28.security challenges in the East, where the security situation has

:06:29. > :06:31.deteriorated somewhat in the last couple of weeks, the last thing

:06:32. > :06:35.Ukraine needed was a deep and acute political crisis and early

:06:36. > :06:40.parliamentary elections, because that is what the opponents of this

:06:41. > :06:43.dismissal of the Government and no-confidence vote were threatening

:06:44. > :06:46.Ukraine with, further instability, further economic losses, further

:06:47. > :06:51.political crisis and early elections. And yet what it does mean

:06:52. > :06:54.when you still have so many votes going against you that all of the

:06:55. > :07:01.concerns about your government are still there. Oh, exactly. The deep

:07:02. > :07:07.unpopularity of his government in society is still a reality for

:07:08. > :07:10.Ukraine, because Ukrainians are frustrated with the fact that their

:07:11. > :07:18.standard of living is falling, that Ukrainian currency is losing its

:07:19. > :07:24.value and the IMF threatened Ukraine with not following up with a bailout

:07:25. > :07:26.programme unless there is real progress on the reforms, unless

:07:27. > :07:32.there is real progress on fighting corruption, something that Ukrainian

:07:33. > :07:34.government hasn't got a good record. Thank you very much.

:07:35. > :07:36.Scientists in America believe they may have found

:07:37. > :07:38.a potentially revolutionary way to treat cancer.

:07:39. > :07:41.They've managed to retrain cells in the body's own immune system

:07:42. > :07:49.In a trial, more than 90% of terminally-ill patients

:07:50. > :07:51.with blood cancers went into complete remission.

:07:52. > :07:56.This is the body's natural defence mechanism at work,

:07:57. > :08:00.an immune cell attacking and neutralising a cancer cell,

:08:01. > :08:04.but when that doesn't function properly, intervention's needed.

:08:05. > :08:07.This new study shows that specially engineered immune cells,

:08:08. > :08:15.injected back into the patient, can suppress a type of blood cancer.

:08:16. > :08:18.The study was published was in the United States and British

:08:19. > :08:20.researchers, working in this field, say it offers exciting potential

:08:21. > :08:25.We know the immune system is incredibly powerful.

:08:26. > :08:28.We know we can harness cells from the immune system,

:08:29. > :08:30.engineer them and give them back to patients.

:08:31. > :08:37.These effects are not just for a few weeks or a couple of months,

:08:38. > :08:39.they're long-lasting affects over many months and potentially

:08:40. > :08:42.So we think the enormous power of the immune system,

:08:43. > :08:45.in these kind of settings, is there to be harnessed actually.

:08:46. > :08:49.A blood sample was taken from the patient and immune cells

:08:50. > :08:55.Each one was modified and transformed into a targeted

:08:56. > :08:59.immune cell to seek out and destroy cancer cells.

:09:00. > :09:03.The cells were then grown in a laboratory and stored.

:09:04. > :09:06.Later, they were returned to the patient's bloodstream,

:09:07. > :09:11.where they were ready to detect and then attack the cancer cells.

:09:12. > :09:14.The patients helped by the therapy had all undergone other forms

:09:15. > :09:16.of treatment which had failed, including chemotherapy

:09:17. > :09:21.But cancer experts say more extensive trials and research

:09:22. > :09:26.So to have these kind of results, which were really being used

:09:27. > :09:32.Now, we've got to figure out how to make them last,

:09:33. > :09:35.how to make them more effective and how to make this treatment

:09:36. > :09:38.There's some caution about the latest study,

:09:39. > :09:40.as the full set of data has not yet been published,

:09:41. > :09:43.but there's agreement this is an important step forward

:09:44. > :09:49.Scientists say the next challenge is to get the technology genetically

:09:50. > :10:01.engineering cells to work on tumours as well as blood cancer.

:10:02. > :10:09.US and Cuban officials will sign a deal in Havana later to reinstate

:10:10. > :10:22.commercial flights between the two for the first time in over 50 years.

:10:23. > :10:25.Although it is still technically illegal for Americans to visit Cuba

:10:26. > :10:30.as tourists. Brazilian scientists

:10:31. > :10:31.have found more evidence linking the Zika virus

:10:32. > :10:35.to birth defects. The mosquito-borne virus is thought

:10:36. > :10:39.to cause microcephaly, when a child has an abnormally

:10:40. > :10:41.small head and brain damage. The World Health Organisation

:10:42. > :10:43.says if the Zika virus the consequences would be

:10:44. > :10:46.staggering. Two ethnic Uighur men have appeared

:10:47. > :10:49.at a military court in Thailand and pleaded not guilty to carrying out a

:10:50. > :10:52.bomb attack on a shrine in Bangkok. 20 people died and more than 100

:10:53. > :10:56.were injured in the blast in August. The defendants say they were forced

:10:57. > :11:03.to confess. A minute's silence has been held at

:11:04. > :11:05.the United Nations Security Council for the former UN Secretary General

:11:06. > :11:07.Boutros Boutros-Ghali, As an Egyptian, he was the first

:11:08. > :11:17.Arab to hold the UN's top post. of civil war in Yugoslavia

:11:18. > :11:22.and Somalia for the UN's failure

:11:23. > :11:27.to stop the Rwandan genocide and Washington was angered

:11:28. > :11:29.by his opposition to Nato's bombing

:11:30. > :11:32.campaign in Bosnia. Joining me from New York

:11:33. > :11:37.is Denis Halliday, who was appointed by

:11:38. > :11:38.Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali to UN Assistant Secretary-General

:11:39. > :11:49.for Human Resources, back in 1994. Thank you very much for talking to

:11:50. > :11:54.us. I wonder if we could just talk about his background first of all,

:11:55. > :11:57.how significant was a view that Boutros Boutros-Ghali was Egyptian,

:11:58. > :12:04.the first Arab to hold the post? -- was it for you which first of all,

:12:05. > :12:07.may I express my condolences to Mrs Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who is an

:12:08. > :12:12.extraordinary person in her own right. Boutros-Ghali came from an

:12:13. > :12:16.ancient Egyptian family, his grandfather was the Prime Minister

:12:17. > :12:19.in the 1930s and worked closely with President said that in the peace

:12:20. > :12:25.arrangements with Israel, so he has a very strong base, educated in

:12:26. > :12:30.Paris. He came to the UN with extraordinary experience and

:12:31. > :12:34.know-how. He appointed you to the posts of assistant general secretary

:12:35. > :12:40.for human resources at the United Nations, what was he like to work

:12:41. > :12:45.with? Very demanding, very hard-working himself, and author of

:12:46. > :12:49.several books, an agenda for peace in his own memoirs. An early-morning

:12:50. > :12:52.type, like myself. And I found him very easy to work with on a

:12:53. > :12:58.one-to-one basis when he called me in connection with human resources

:12:59. > :13:03.or worldwide. But he spoke truth to power and of course, in the context

:13:04. > :13:07.of the Security Council and the P five, I mean, the veto powers,

:13:08. > :13:10.Britain included, and the United States, that made things difficult

:13:11. > :13:17.for him, because truth to power is often difficult to provide. Do you

:13:18. > :13:22.think that indirectly, that was what led to him not serving a second term

:13:23. > :13:27.as Secretary-General? Absolutely, he was simply too outspoken. He didn't

:13:28. > :13:33.let his integrity become damaged. He said exactly what he felt was right,

:13:34. > :13:36.as was his obligation, I would say, under the UN Charter, as

:13:37. > :13:42.Secretary-General, but the member states, and particularly the P5,

:13:43. > :13:47.London and Washington, were not happy with some of the statement and

:13:48. > :13:49.his dedication to peace, or peaceful means or non-violent solutions to

:13:50. > :13:53.problems got him into trouble, clearly. We just mentioned some of

:13:54. > :13:56.the challenges of that period of time. How difficult time was it do

:13:57. > :14:03.you think to be Secretary-General this organisation? Well, he came in

:14:04. > :14:07.1992, the Gulf War had just come to an end, there were sanctions on

:14:08. > :14:12.Iraq. You mentioned Rwanda, which was a nightmare situation. Why he

:14:13. > :14:14.would be blamed for that, I have no idea, because I think Clinton

:14:15. > :14:18.withdrew his troops from Somalia, they could easily have been used,

:14:19. > :14:23.and intervention could have been there and I believe we had 5,000 UN

:14:24. > :14:30.peacekeepers in Rwanda at the time who were not employed to the -- keep

:14:31. > :14:33.people apart and allowed the killing to continue, so I believe it was no

:14:34. > :14:36.way the fault of Blue Cross Kali himself. Thank you very much for

:14:37. > :14:40.joining us. -- of Boutros-Ghali. German prosecutors say human error

:14:41. > :14:43.was to blame for the train crash which killed 11 people in Bavaria

:14:44. > :14:45.last week. More than 80 people were injured

:14:46. > :14:48.after two commuter trains collided on a single-track stretch of

:14:49. > :14:49.railway. With the latest, here's our

:14:50. > :14:51.correspondent in Berlin, Ordinarily, one of those trains

:14:52. > :14:55.would have been held back at signal On the particular day last week,

:14:56. > :15:00.both trains were, we're told, allowed by this controller on

:15:01. > :15:03.that track, travelling towards

:15:04. > :15:06.each other at speed. Now the controller, it is said,

:15:07. > :15:09.delivered some kind of wrong signal, which opened the track to both

:15:10. > :15:13.trains. tried to send a warning to both

:15:14. > :15:18.drivers - that warning, of course, appears to have

:15:19. > :15:21.come too late and resulted in what prosecutors described as

:15:22. > :15:25."catastrophic consequences". Interestingly, they don't believe

:15:26. > :15:28.the man, who is 39 and said to have been pretty experienced, he finished

:15:29. > :15:32.his training at the end of the '90s, they say they don't believe he

:15:33. > :15:35.caused this crash on purpose, but they have now opened a criminal

:15:36. > :15:42.investigation into him. We are told that he faces a charge

:15:43. > :15:46.of involuntary manslaughter, If he is found guilty,

:15:47. > :15:51.it carries a maximum penalty On the day it happened, I spoke to a

:15:52. > :15:57.man in one of the carriages. He described really the most

:15:58. > :15:59.harrowing scenes, which he said to me will stay with him forever,

:16:00. > :16:02.understandably. He said he was sat there, there was

:16:03. > :16:07.a sudden sound like an explosion. He said people were flying through

:16:08. > :16:09.the carriages, I saw the wreckage myself and it was

:16:10. > :16:16.a pretty unpleasant sight. You can only imagine what it must

:16:17. > :16:19.have been like to have been right at the front of the trains

:16:20. > :16:21.when they collided. The death toll has stood at 11

:16:22. > :16:24.people, but this shocked Germany, because Germany is a country with a

:16:25. > :16:27.pretty good safety record There have been fatal crashes

:16:28. > :16:35.before, but it happens rarely. And of course, people put their

:16:36. > :16:38.faith in a modern system, a railway where signals and, for example,

:16:39. > :16:43.pieces of equipment are in place to stop this kind of accident from

:16:44. > :16:48.happening. So I think from the beginning people

:16:49. > :16:50.suspected that human error Today is the first time we have had

:16:51. > :16:54.that officially confirmed by The band Eagles of Death Metal

:16:55. > :17:02.return to Paris today to play a concert, just three

:17:03. > :17:05.months after the Paris attacks. They were the band performing

:17:06. > :17:08.at the Bataclan music hall when it was attacked by terrorists

:17:09. > :17:10.in November. The band joined U2 on stage in Paris

:17:11. > :17:15.shortly after the attacks but this is their first solo performance

:17:16. > :17:19.in the city since November. In what is sure to be an emotional

:17:20. > :17:22.evening, the band will perform in front of an audience of hundreds

:17:23. > :17:25.of survivors of the attacks. The concert will be held at the

:17:26. > :17:29.Olympia Theatre in Paris. The Bataclan music hall

:17:30. > :17:33.remains closed. has been speaking

:17:34. > :17:37.to French television. He said that the events

:17:38. > :17:39.of last November had confirmed his

:17:40. > :17:42.pro-gun views - saying that it was only the armed

:17:43. > :17:44.security forces who were able He also described how he is still

:17:45. > :17:49.haunted by the events of that night I can't really control it and I

:17:50. > :18:06.don't know where it's coming from That's one of the things that the

:18:07. > :18:10.strangest about this. I haven't had any nightmares and

:18:11. > :18:14.I've slept fine, but when I'm awake is when I see things that are

:18:15. > :18:16.nightmares, you know? And I thought that talking about it

:18:17. > :18:19.would make it easier. Expelling it from inside of me

:18:20. > :18:26.would make me less like this, There's really no frame of reference

:18:27. > :18:29.for this at all. On the streets of Paris today,

:18:30. > :18:36.one of the fans who survived the November attack talked about

:18:37. > :18:42.this evening's concert. TRANSLATION: It's lots of feelings,

:18:43. > :18:45.since the date of the concert Since we heard they were coming back

:18:46. > :18:50.and they were going to play here at the Olympia, we have been preparing

:18:51. > :18:52.ourselves psychologically. We have been wondering what it's

:18:53. > :18:54.going to be like. We have moments of joy because we

:18:55. > :18:59.are really happy to be here because we think of the people who

:19:00. > :19:04.are not here at the same time. I have a real physical need to

:19:05. > :19:07.attend this concert tonight. It's part of the reconstruction

:19:08. > :19:11.process. Colin Paterson is at the

:19:12. > :19:24.Olympia Theatre in Paris. All the survivors of the Bataclan

:19:25. > :19:29.show have been invited tonight and in fact, they have been allowed into

:19:30. > :19:31.the gig early. The band are fully aware that for

:19:32. > :19:35.many of them, this will be the first time they have gone to a concert

:19:36. > :19:39.since that night. So the band invited those fans into

:19:40. > :19:42.the gig an hour ago. Part of the reason was just to let

:19:43. > :19:46.them get acclimatise to the venue. We believe the band may actually

:19:47. > :19:49.come out and meet those fans early and also there are psychologists on

:19:50. > :19:52.hand tonight in case people do feel panic attacks, want to talk to

:19:53. > :19:55.someone about the experience, so it And what the band said since those

:19:56. > :20:10.that I have ever been to before. And what the band said since those

:20:11. > :20:14.terrible events on that night in November about what happened? The

:20:15. > :20:18.band started this tour on Saturday night in Sweden and moved to Norway.

:20:19. > :20:21.They had yesterday off to prepare for this and gave some interviews in

:20:22. > :20:25.the French press where they have spoken about how they are still

:20:26. > :20:28.traumatised, the front man Jesse Hughes says every time he wakes up,

:20:29. > :20:32.it is the first thing he thinks about. He has also made some

:20:33. > :20:36.comments about his belief that the right to bear arms should be given

:20:37. > :20:41.to all. He says he does not believe the attack would have been a bad if

:20:42. > :20:45.people -- as bad if people had the right to bear arms at the concert,

:20:46. > :20:49.quite controversial views, but they say tonight is a continuation of

:20:50. > :20:53.what they see as an interrupted night back in November. They want to

:20:54. > :20:56.show that this is about standing up to terrorism, that rock 'n' roll and

:20:57. > :21:00.music will continue despite the events of that night. They also say

:21:01. > :21:05.that despite the Bataclan not being yet open, they will go back and play

:21:06. > :21:06.that venue before the lead when it does reopen, possibly before the end

:21:07. > :21:08.of the year. They're the directors behind some of

:21:09. > :21:11.the most memorable movies to No Country for Old Men

:21:12. > :21:15.and True Grit, the Coen Brothers are famous for

:21:16. > :21:19.working across a huge range of plots Now they're tackling Hollywood -

:21:20. > :21:22.1950s Hollywood - with a comedy in which George Clooney

:21:23. > :21:25.plays an incompetent actor Our Arts Editor Will Gompertz has

:21:26. > :21:33.been talking to the pair. Hail, Caesar! is a classic Coen

:21:34. > :21:40.Brothers movie insomuch as it's a stylised, surreal comic

:21:41. > :21:53.tale, undercut with a little menace. The original sort

:21:54. > :21:55.of idea for the movie, when we first started

:21:56. > :21:56.thinking about it was, OK, 24 hours in the life

:21:57. > :21:59.of Eddie Mannix, as a sort

:22:00. > :22:01.of architecture through a movie. as a sort

:22:02. > :22:02.of architecture for a movie. Marriage doesn't have to last

:22:03. > :22:05.forever but in the end, having a child without

:22:06. > :22:07.a father would create a public relations

:22:08. > :22:08.problem for the studio. The aquatic pictures

:22:09. > :22:10.do very nicely for us. a legendary 1950s Hollywood

:22:11. > :22:13.fixer. Where does the idea start

:22:14. > :22:16.and what does it look like and then how do you,

:22:17. > :22:19.between you, evolve it? The scripts kind of develop

:22:20. > :22:22.out of essentially

:22:23. > :22:28.just a long conversation and so then the conversation gets

:22:29. > :22:32.more and more creative. and so then the conversation gets

:22:33. > :22:34.more and more concrete. Do you disagree?

:22:35. > :22:36."I don't like that sentence, "I don't like that word,"

:22:37. > :22:38.or whatever? Well, yeah, I mean that's just

:22:39. > :22:40.the nature of movie-making, It's all about collaboration and the

:22:41. > :22:45.good collaborations are the ones where...not where you always know

:22:46. > :22:51.what's right, but when you know when the other

:22:52. > :22:56.person's right. Gather $100,000 and await

:22:57. > :23:00.further instructions. Gather $100,000 and await

:23:01. > :23:01.instructions. There are so many familiar

:23:02. > :23:07.structural devices we see Do you ever worry about

:23:08. > :23:11.repeating yourselves? I think when we were shooting Fargo

:23:12. > :23:15.and we were out on the street, shooting with the approaching car

:23:16. > :23:17.coming down and I literally turned to Ethan and

:23:18. > :23:19.said, "Haven't we shot this

:23:20. > :23:22.exact same thing before?" And you realise, to a certain

:23:23. > :23:25.extent, you keep reverting to the same shots or

:23:26. > :23:30.tropes or plot ideas. What would happen

:23:31. > :23:39.if one of you said, "Look, I don't want to do it

:23:40. > :23:41.anymore?" You have me there, sir,

:23:42. > :23:44.I haven't thought about that. Well, we did talk about it

:23:45. > :23:49.at one point, we said we will make

:23:50. > :23:52.ten movies and then quit. It gets too alarming

:23:53. > :23:56.thinking about that and even ways

:23:57. > :24:00.you are not aware of that you are repeating

:24:01. > :24:01.yourself, just on the road because

:24:02. > :24:05.he doesn't know anything else and he is just doing

:24:06. > :24:24.an oldies show. Lots more on that on the website.

:24:25. > :24:28.Let's go back to the two main stories we have been focusing on

:24:29. > :24:31.this hour, one in the last hour or so developing because Ukraine's

:24:32. > :24:36.embattled Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has survived a

:24:37. > :24:42.Parliamentary no-confidence vote in his government. It is only hours

:24:43. > :24:47.after the president asked him to stand down, despite criticising the

:24:48. > :24:50.Government's record, only 194 MPs voted in support of the

:24:51. > :24:56.no-confidence motion, but it was short of the 226 vote required for

:24:57. > :25:01.its approval. The president, Petro Poroshenko, earlier called on

:25:02. > :25:05.Arseniy Yatsenyuk to resign, saying he had lost public trust in his

:25:06. > :25:10.ability to fight corruption and overcome Ukraine's deep economic

:25:11. > :25:20.crisis. And in Syria, the other story we are focusing on, the United

:25:21. > :25:23.Nations special envoy says the Syrian government has a special duty

:25:24. > :25:28.to deliver aid to whoever needs it. After meeting the Syrian Foreign

:25:29. > :25:31.Minister in Damascus, Staffan de Mistura said this commitment would

:25:32. > :25:35.be tested tomorrow. A UN spokesman says the Syrian government has

:25:36. > :25:44.approved access to seven besieged areas, including in the east and

:25:45. > :25:50.near Damascus. Several other towns and villages that recently received

:25:51. > :25:55.aid where residents face starvation, such as Madaya, are on the list.

:25:56. > :25:58.Plenty more the website and you can get in touch with us via Twitter.

:25:59. > :26:00.That is it from the programme, from me and the rest of the team,

:26:01. > :26:10.goodbye. Hello, good evening, some changes in

:26:11. > :26:12.the next few days as a spell of rain, sleet and snow moves down from