|
BBC News with Roisin Hastie.
Ukraine says Russia has carried out what it called "a vile terrorist strike" on a school being used as an aid center in the Zaporizhzhia region close to the front line. The local authorities say 26 people are now known to have died. Dan Johnson is in Kyiv. President Zelenskyy has posted an update. He says a school that was being used to distribute humanitarian aid was hit in a Russian double tap strike. That's where one missile hits and then shortly after there is another round of attacks. He called it "utterly horrific" and said the Russians must have known what that building was being used for that people were regularly queuing up there for aid distribution. He said the fact that they'd attacked that sort of target showed what Russia's real intentions were. President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff has said working level negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, mediated by the United States, will take place next week in Abu Dhabi. He said the discussion scheduled for the 10th and 11th of November would focus on post-war security arrangements, de-escalation, humanitarian efforts and steps towards peace. President Trump has tried to rally support for Republicans ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections where Democrats are hoping to win control of both houses of the U.S. Congress. Speaking beside the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, he branded Democrat candidates as "dangerous." But our North America editor, Sarah Smith, says the president spent much of the speech focused on his building projects. This is an election where voters are laser focused on one issue and that is the cost of living and the way prices have gone up, they say, because of the war in Iran. And yet here he is not addressing how he's going to try and drive prices down or making a justification for starting the war with Iran, but instead talking about the ways in which he's beautifying the nation's capital. I mean not only is it off topic, quite a few voters I've spoken to around the country have brought up these building projects that he has, saying why is he spending so much time worrying about his ballroom or the reflecting pool when we need him to be paying attention to the things that matter in our lives. The U.S. Supreme Court has refused the Trump administration's application to block California from counting mail-in ballots received from more than 20,000 registered voters. The government alleges these voters are not U.S. citizens, but California said that to interfere at this late stage would cause chaos. A constitutional challenge to Australia's social media ban for under-16s is getting underway today at the country's High Court. The case has been brought by a digital rights advocacy group who argue that legislation unlawfully restricts young people's freedom of communication. The court is also hearing a separate challenge brought by the platform Reddit. BBC News. North Korea has hit back at allegations by the U.S. that it was behind what's believed to be the biggest crypto heist in history. More than $6 billion of digital assets were stolen from the Binance platform. Pyongyang's described the claim as a "grave political provocation." The British Interior Minister Shabana Mahmood has scrapped a plan that would have forced immigrant care workers already in the U.K. to wait 15 years before applying for permanent residency. Now, those who arrived before May last year and earn at least $33,000 remain eligible for indefinite leave to remain after five years. Here's Daniel Sandford. Despite the watering down of their plans, these are still some of the most significant changes in a generation to what's known as indefinite leave to remain - the right to settle permanently in the U.K. One of the reasons for the changes was what's known as the Boriswave - a big surge in the net migration figures after the pandemic as the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson relaxed the immigration rules to allow in people like care workers to help the country recover. It meant that the number of people who qualified to settle in the U.K. was also going to surge over the next five years. The EU's food commissioner says the repeated cyberattacks on supermarkets in a number of European countries are a deliberate attempt to undermine food supply chains. Christophe Hansen said the bloc was taking them very seriously. His condemnation comes after cyber attacks hit freezers and fridges in dozens of supermarkets across seven countries remotely raising temperatures. The governing body of world football says key documents relating to its president Gianni Infantino's failed plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup will be made available to members of its council. The announcement came hours before a deadline set by European football's governing body, UEFA. BBC News. |