us investigators — recover the data recorder — from the ship, which crashed into a bridge in baltimore. these are live pictures, you can see conditions in baltimore are hampering the efforts to search for the six women workers who are presumed that. israel responds after a un human rights expert says she believes the country has committed "acts of genocide" in gaza. we have no interest in harming gazans, we are after hamas. check your passport — the message to millions of britons planning a trip to europe to avoid being caught out by a ten—year rule. we'll explain. and bruce springsteen is given one of the most coveted awards in songwriting — the fellowship of the ivor novello academy.

hello, i'm matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live. investigators in the us — have recovered the data recorder — from the ship that crashed into the baltimore bridge, causing it to collapse. these are the live pictures from the scene — it's foggy , but you can see part of the collapsed bridge. the cargo ship is under there — with the tangled remain of the bridge over its bow. it's hoped the data recorder will throw light, onto why the container vessel lost power and crashed — soon after leaving port. six missing construction workers, who were on the bridge at the time, are now presumed dead. the disaster has forced the indefinite closure of baltimore port — one of the busiest on america's,

eastern seaboard. our correspondent tom bateman is in baltimore. i have been talking to him about what has happened on the ground and the focus of the salvage operation. more detail has been emerging over night about those men who were on the bridge when it fell. the workers, eight of them that we know about, two, of course, were rescued yesterday, one remains in a serious condition in hospital. but it is those other six whose family members are waiting for news last night. we were outside the transportation authority here in maryland when some of the relatives and family members were brought in and were being briefed and given information. it was shortly after that that the coastguard announced that they were effectively ending the rescue part of this operation. they said due to the amount of time that had passed, and critically, because of the temperature of the water, it was extremely cold all day yesterday, temperatures have been

dipping again today. and so, that is why they said they were turning this into a recovery phase of the operation. at the same time, we know that divers were due back in the water this morning, as you can see, the weather is pretty bad and they were having problems with currents yesterday, pretty tough currents that were making it hard for the divers. also because of the danger that was being posed by the wreckage itself from the collapsed bridge. so, a lot to work through for those teams. at the same time, there has been more detail from the national safety board of transport officials about the recovery of the data recorder from the vessel itself. so, we can now get an update on all the latest from my colleague, graeme satchell.

as the sun rose in baltimore, this tragedy moved into a new phase. after searching the icy waters of the patapsco river for more than 14 hours, emergency services are now in a recovery mission looking for bodies. a team of construction workers were on the bridge at the time of the collision. two were rescued, but six are missing — feared dead. one of them has been named as miguel luna. originally from el salvador, he had three children. his wife said, "we are devastated, our heart is broken." a second man has been named as maynor suazo. local officials have now met all the families of the missing. we had the chance to pray with them. we had a chance to pray for them. and we want to let them know that we are going to keep on praying for them. and notjust us, but they have got 6.3 million people and they have a whole country and a whole world who's praying for their peace.

we now have a clearer picture of the timeline that led to this tragedy. at 1.24am in the morning, the container ship the dali is heading towards the bridge when the lights go out. the ship has lost propulsion. a minute later, the lights briefly return and the pilot issues a mayday call. at 1.28am, black smoke is seen coming from the ship's chimney and you can see work vehicles still on the bridge. just seconds later, the moment of impact. the whole bridge just fell down. start, whoever, everybody, the whole bridge just collapsed. investigators have now boarded the vessel and recovered the data recorder. it should help piece together exactly what went wrong. for now, the focus is on recovering the dead before the huge task of clearing the debris and reconstruction can begin. graeme satchell, bbc news

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let's bring you some new pictures from ukraine. president zelensky has visited front line positions in the country's east. his office released these images. it comes as official in ukriane's second city, kharkiv, say russian guided bombs have hit a school and a residential area, killing one person and injuring at least 16. police say it's the first time russia has used aerial bombs against kharkiv since 2022. reacting to the attack, president zelensky urged the west to speed up deliveries of fighter planes and air defence systems. those pictures just coming those picturesjust coming into those pictures just coming into us here at the bbc. turning to gaza now — and the un special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied palestinian territories says she believes the threshold for genocide has been met. speaking to the un human rights council, francesca albanese — an outspoken critic of israel's conduct in the war —

urged the international communitiy to impose an arms embargo, and sanctions, on the country. the monstrosity unfolding is accompanied by a pervasive anti—palestinian narrative and dehumanisation emanating from the uppermost layers of israeli society, including high—ranking officials with command authority and frequently reflected in soldiers' actions on the ground. this reflects the intent of dolus specialis to destroy in whole or in part, which is what distinguishes genocide from other atrocity crimes. in the case of gaza, there exists a chilling clarity of this purpose. the systematic eradication of an entire people, or at least a significant part thereof. one of the key findings is that israel's executive and military leadership and soldiers have intentionally distorted jus in bellow principles, subverted their production functions

in an attempt to legitimise genocidal violence against the palestinian people. the only reasonable inference that can be drawn from the unveiling of this policy is an israeli state policy of genocidal violence toward the palestinian people in gaza. david mencer is a spokesman for the israeli government. i asked him for his reaction to francesca albanese's statement. truth is about francesca albanese is that she's not an impartial someone that looks at this whole conflict impartially. she's got a record as long as your arm — just in 2020 to the congress, from people from congressmen just in 2022 the congress, from people from congressmen from both sides of the house said that she wasn't she should resign because she has a ridiculous hatred of my nation state. she doesn't even believe that israel should exist. she's made that clear again and again and again. so, look, it is a terrible conflict

which is going on in gaza. it's a war. it's a terrible war which we didn't want, we didn't ask for. and it is terrible when civilians are killed. but the truth of the matter is, is that the combat ratio right now, while it's very unpleasant, is one to one. that means one terrorist to one civilian. that's what the prime minister has made clear. so these ridiculous remarks by francesca albanese, they really shouldn't be given any credence because she is unfortunately got a long, long record of hatred for my country. david mencer talking to me earlier, just a quick update on this story will brought you about 45 minutes earlier reports that benjamin netanyahu is reconsidering sending that delegation back to the white house, you remember after the un security council passed that a solution where

un avenue fury from israel, they pulled out a delegation to go to washington to discuss the prospects for an attack on rafa, whether that delegation was pulled and we are now here and perhaps that would be rescheduled, so we will talk to our correspondent injerusalem on that emergent nine here in the moment or two. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

your life with bbc news. a new bbc investigation tells for the first time the story of a lost american documentary, filmed inside the irish republican army in 1972, the bloodiest year of the conflict known as the troubles. ira leaders and rank—and—file members were filmed planning, preparing and carrying out bomb and gun attacks. the ira hoped the film would boost their support in america. but almost as soon as it was made, the film disappeared — as darragh macintyre now reports.

the uncredited star of a strange lost film. this is 21—year—old ira leader martin mcguinness handling guns. before he died in 2017, he became one of the most important figures in northern ireland's peace process. thank you very much. but here he is in 1972, helping to make a car bomb that would wreck the centre of his hometown. as we dug into how and why this film was made, the story only became more mysterious — like how it disappeared for almost 50 years. look at the rust on that. but inside, this looks ok. all our operations are carried out from inside the bogside and creggan. the american crew was able to film alongside the ira, openly carrying out attacks — here, firing on british

soldiers in londonderry. ira members who took part in the film hoped it would be a propaganda triumph. do you remember that day, tony? ido, sure. what actually happened was ten or 12 of our creggan volunteers had set up an ambush behind these houses. how did the camera crew behave? no matter where we went, they were there. these seasoned guerrillas who relied so much on secrecy, went before the cameras and, in effect, put their heads on the block. it will explode. the ira thought they were in control of the film, even threatening the crew to prevent potentially incriminating pictures from going astray. they said if any separate parts of the film were attempted to be taken separately to america that we would be all

shot at the airport — we're going to kill you. thompson submachine gun. in fact, it's now clear that the ira left themselves exposed to intelligence agencies. cia, top secret, department of defence — top secret again. a bunch of teenagers in the bogside — mossad, the cia, m15. that's alljames bond kind of stuff. despite all the risks the ira took, the film was only ever seen by a handful of private audiences, which raises the question more than 50 years later — why was it ever made in the first place? darragh macintyre, bbc news. let's cross to belfast to speak tojohn o'kane, who produced the documentary. welcome to the programme, the footage is jaw—dropping, tell me a bit more about how it came to light.

it was discovered about six years ago by a bbc researcher, one of those amazing stories. it is like a treasure trove, a video tape was handed to the researcher, told be something useful on it, the bbc team started to look at it and examine the footage. the footage seemed too incredible to be true, people were saying is it reconstruction? or what is it? then, everyone realised it was real, they recognise a few characters in it, so the bbc in belfast at that time, did a short future piece on it, included in other series, future piece on it, included in otherseries, but future piece on it, included in other series, but there were so many questions left unanswered, so the bbc decided to have a more extensive look at it and we started looking into it. we had no idea where it was going to take us but we actually started to discover things that completely changed our perspective

as we went through. it was a mystery. these were like small jigsaw pieces as we started to unpick them and one thing led to another, but we never had the whole picture until very late on. it another, but we never had the whole picture until very late on.— picture until very late on. it begs the question. — picture until very late on. it begs the question, why _ picture until very late on. it begs the question, why did _ picture until very late on. it begs the question, why did the - picture until very late on. it begs the question, why did the ira . picture until very late on. it begs i the question, why did the ira grant that sort of access? it is so incredible to see both the leadership and others unmask, being filmed, going through everything we see there in the footage was stop unmet. . , ~ see there in the footage was stop unmet. ., , ,, ., unmet. unmask indeed and we were able to identify _ unmet. unmask indeed and we were able to identify so _ unmet. unmask indeed and we were able to identify so many _ unmet. unmask indeed and we were able to identify so many of them, i able to identify so many of them, and we saw tony to there, the passenger in a car there, took part and did some extensive interviews for us and took us back the scenes where there were filmed at a time, but asking the question, how was it made, why was it made, why did the ira agree to such a thing? we went to arizona and find the composer of the film in his early 90s at the

time, he is a music composer and started to tell us that he was in belfast and in derry and at the scene of bombings and so forth. we said" hold on, you are the composer, why would you be on location? " said" hold on, you are the composer, why would you be on location? and it was then the whole thing unraveled, and he told us there was a secret deal between the ira and the producers of the film that the ira would let, would be allowed to see the funds and control out of it. so this was a very complicated story, and as we unraveled it it just became clearer and clearer that this was really something quite extraordinary and important piece of history that has an one of those dynamite projects to unpick. it dynamite projects to unpick. it really is, it is conjugated but absolutely fascinating as well, thank you for taking time to speak to us. this appointer. that

documentary is now available on the iplayer. there are reports in us media israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's office has told the white house it wants to reschedule a cancelled meeting on a planned israeli military operation in the southern gaza city of rafah, that's according to nbc news. let's speak to our middle east correspondent in jerusalem, hugo bachega. this is a very interesting, because this was dramatically pulled a few days ago i know it potentially looks like it is back on the agenda. tell us more. ., . ~ ., us more. so, let me go back to what ha--ened us more. so, let me go back to what happened on — us more. so, let me go back to what happened on monday, _ us more. so, let me go back to what happened on monday, because i us more. so, let me go back to what happened on monday, because that| us more. so, let me go back to what. happened on monday, because that is when the security council at the united nations approved, for the first time, the resolution calling for a cease—fire in gaza, which only happens because the us abstained in the votes leading to a strong

reaction from prime minister netanyahu, accusing the americans of abandoning their initial position, then he decides to cancel this visit by this high level of dedication of israeli officials the washington that was shed as happened this week. they were try to explain to american officials the plans of the is really military for this offensive into a rafa, and we know the americans are very concerned about the possible invocations of this offensive, especially because of the humanitarian situation in rafa, where more than1 million palestinians are seeking shelter. so suggestions know that prime minister netanyahu has decided the visit will go ahead, possibly next week and it was a decision criticised by the americans. they thought it was exaggerated, i know it seems that this visit is indeed going ahead. hugo bachega there injerusalem, thank you for that update.

it's the highest honour at the ivor novello awards and one of the most coveted prizes in songwriting — the fellowship of the ivors academy. only 26 people have ever received the fellowship, including sir eltonjohn, sir paul mccartney and kate bush. the award recognises writing that has enriched the cultural fabric of the uk. and now, there's a new name on the list — bruce springsteen, whose albums have sold millions of copies around the world. the boss, as he's known, is the first american musician to make the cut. here's our music correspondent mark savage. this is the elite of songwriters. and up until now, ever since the ivor novello was were established in 1956, it has only given the fellowship to british songwriters. bruce springsteen is not only the first american but the first international writer to be given the honour. he said he was proud and he thanked his british fans. it's always been his second home. his big concerts here in hammersmith in the 1970s were a huge launch pad

for his international career. and so getting this award in may, the night after he plays sunderland's stadium of light, i think it's going to feel a little bit like a homecoming for him. well, i mean, obviously, they said it's in recognition of the catalogue that he has produced over the last 51 years since his debut album, greetings from asbury park. and bruce springsteen has been kind of the poet of the blue collar working class over those last five decades, you know, hits like my home town, born to run badlands. they're all eulogising the working men and women and the struggles they have, the circumstances they want to escape. and it's a contribution to the american song. but i think also to the global song book. you know, nobody writes lyrics the way he does, but also no one delivers them the way that bruce springsteen does, that gravelly growl

in his voice and those epic 3 to 4 hour long concerts that he puts on. i saw him in hyde park last summer and he had more energy than i do. i'm half his age. mark savage talking to me earlier. for before we break, back to the life pictures from baltimore, there you see the cargo ship still marooned exactly where it went into that bridge, bringing the whole of the bridge down, and of course the salvage operation, still they wait, because their focus is on trying to actually retrieve the six missing construction workers. i want to point you to the bbc website, because we just playing the fascinating audio from the first responders to the police in the moments before the bridge actually collapsed, so had to the website and you will hear that fascinating audio we were listening to a short while ago. i am we were listening to a short while ago. iam back we were listening to a short while ago. i am back with more of the headlines here injust a moment or

two. hello there. it's going to stay very unsettled as we head into the easter weekend. and today was certainly very mixed weather. we had some sunshine and some brief warmth of 12 degrees in eastern england before we saw that spell of rain. but it was in scotland where the rain hung around for much longer and that really kept the temperatures much lower as well. it's so very unsettled because we've got low pressure sitting close to us and this one is going to strengthen the winds into thursday. we've got this weather front here bringing rain back up from france, in across england and wales. there may even be a bit of sleet and snow over exmoor and into the cotswolds, more particularly over the hills of wales. further north, there'll be some showers for a while, but it may well turn drier and it will also get colder with a frost likely in some parts of scotland. let's head to the south of england, though, where it's going to get windy through the day on thursday, particularly so along these coastal areas, gales are likely large waves, maybe even some travel disruption as well. and together with those

strengthening winds, it's going to get wetter from the south west. this is the overnight rain, though, moving into northern england. some heavier rain again, unfortunately for northern ireland. it'll turn more showery, i think in scotland, so not as wet as today was, but we will see these showers or longer spells of rain developing more widely across england and wales as the winds pick up and that will prevent the temperatures rising too high. although nine degrees will be better in the central belt than it was today. still got low pressure around as we head into good friday. the wind is not going to be quite as strong across southern areas by this stage, but we're still in this sort of showery air stream. there will be some sunshine at times and that will give us a little bit of warmth, sufficient to trigger more showers, mind you. and these are going to be turning heavy and thundery, particularly across the western side of the uk. we've got a top temperature of 13 or 1a degrees on good friday. now the really warm air, if you are travelling further afield into europe, it's going to be across eastern europe and the eastern mediterranean could make the mid 20s. for western areas of europe,

we've got this cooler air and this is where it's going to be a wetter as well. with the heavier rain more likely across iberia heading into the south of france, we've got the low pressure to the west of the uk and so it's not going to be a wash—out over the easter weekend. will feel warm when the sun is out, but the showers are never too far away, particularly in the west.

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