narrowly missing a hospital. the us says it will "rush" patriot air defence missiles and ammunition to ukraine as part of its new military aid package. bbc learns that british troops could be used to deliver aid via a sea route and it is understood that this evil so be task to do this when a caller opens next month. —— that the troops will be tasked to do this. scotland's first minister humza yousaf is seeksing to save his political career, inviting leaders of other parties to talks and hope to change their plans to oust him in the coming confidence vote. he insists he won't quit. wildlife in antarctica is being exposed to potentially damaging levels of ultraviolet light, because of a hole in the ozone layer caused in part by australian bushfires. scientists say animals and plants

are at risk from the rays. welcome to bbc news. president zelensky has renewed his appeal for allies to provide ukraine with more air defences, after another night of russian bombardment caused serious damage to energy infrastructure. he called for decisive action, saying the world could shoot down every missile and drone launched by, what he called, �*russian terrorists�*. four power plants were hit in three regions, and gas infrastructure was also struck. an oil refinery in occupied slavyansk was damaged. reports indicate a second oil refinery was also hit, and video has emerged of destruction at an airbase. a little earlier i spoke to victoria vdovychenko — programme directorfor security studies at the centre for defence strategies, a ukrainian security think tank. the most important is the time space and that is very important also, our allies understand

that the shortage of the weapons on the ground, in the field, on the ukrainian battlefield in particular, therefore, it was so timely, specifically the aid that was announced a couple of days ago, and the us aid that was today and yesterday by lloyd austin. the most important is, of course, that our partners and allies understand that sometimes we know that the production of the military support is something that takes time and the procurement, but the most important, we are taking everything possible, we are saving democracy and security for our people and also for europeans. for us, it is basically, it's very important that the so—called announced aid by all of the partners, we're talking germany, ukraine, united states and of course we are talking about the congressman senate votes, extra military

aid that was announced a couple of days ago, something that will be timely to deliver to ukraine. we are exoecting it to be on the ground already. can you talk us through, we had more bombardments from russia overnight. energy infrastructure continues to be hit. what is your understanding of what the russian tactics are now? what are they trying to achieve at the moment? most importantly, they are trying to achieve civilians being harmed, the critical infrastructure, specifically, the energy infrastructure, to cause alarm in the civilians, so that ukrainian cities and villages and communities will become dangerous to live there. it is not something that the ukrainians are thinking about. yes, definitely, we have an energy infrastructure and something that we will recover, also thanks to british support in the sense, and their

allies and partners. the most important, it is not the reason why the ukrainians are so resilient, definitely the message that you receive in the british media and western media, something that ukrainians should or code panic which is not the case. thank you very much for coming on the programme. to scotland where the first minister has invited other leaders of other parties to talk and attempt to find common ground. he reportedly wrote leaders on friday night and he won't resign despite the wiki has had. let's speak to a reporter in glasgow. hello, talk us through what is happening there. this glasgow. hello, talk us through what is happening there.— is happening there. this all started when humza _ is happening there. this all started when humza yousaf— is happening there. this all started when humza yousaf ended - is happening there. this all started when humza yousaf ended the - when humza yousaf ended the agreement with the greens on thursday and a lot has happened since then. without that scottish greens and government, he leads a minority government and potentially

faces two votes of no confidence next week. one on himself and one in his government. the arithmetic is very tight and he will need the support of at least one of the opposition msb if he is to survive. but of course means he needs his own members and the snp as well. he has listened to all of the party leaders, asking them for talks on where they can find common ground. humza yousaf called for constructive contributions while acknowledging the strong feelings remain in the lead up to next week's votes. responses are to come in and first, let's look at the prounion parties who it is very unlikely that the snp will be able to get a deal with, douglas ross who is the leader of the scottish conservatives, tabled the scottish conservatives, tabled the motion of no confidence in humza yousaf and he has written back to him. he he said that he has prior prioritised his campaign for

independence are above the real concerns of the scottish public and he should accept that his time in office is over and he should resign as first minister. definitely no deal there. scottish labour tabled the no—confidence motion in scottish government today and they said that the letter they received from humza yousaf is an act of desperation and the government is chaotic and incompetent. the case of not when but if he goes. they want a general election at holyrood. the liberal democrats said they would set out their position tomorrow. of the pro—independence parties, somewhat ironically, humza yousaf is reaching out to the green party that he dumped. they are sore and they cannot trust him, they said. their position has not changed since receiving the letter. he said yesterday that he did not mean to upset or anger the scottish green party and that there are a lot of issues where they share common ground for top his only other potential lifeline is the snp at reagan. that's the party that is led

by the former first minister alex salmond, mr reagan stood for the leader of the snp against mr yusuf before leaving to stop she set out a number of conditions but if humza yousaf makes concessions to her could have that rock the boat elsewhere? if humza yousaf lifts the boat himself he is not legally bound to resign but you can imagine the political pressure he will be under and we heard from an ms np in his own party today saying he would have to step down if you lost the vote. humza yousaf is trying to reclaim the narrative we expect a raft of policy announcement this week to try and shore up some support ahead of those votes. ibig and shore up some support ahead of those votes-— those votes. big week next week. thank ou those votes. big week next week. thank you very — those votes. big week next week. thank you very much _ those votes. big week next week. thank you very much for - those votes. big week next week. thank you very much for that. - itv news said the presenter ragan omar is receiving medical care as he became unwell live on air. he was presenting the news at ten programme on friday when he appeared to struggle to read the bulletin.

rageh omaar was presenting the flagship bulletin on itv, the ten o'clock news, and he was visibly unwell, he seemed to be struggling to read the autocue and during the programme, viewers were contacting actively on social media to ask if everything was ok. rageh omaar neish the programme, but that programme has been taken of catch—up services and also not being repeated like it was meant to be repeated. there was an issue, itv has said he did fall unwell while presenting the programme and is receiving medical care and they acknowledge that many viewers were concerned about his health, and they say that he expresses his thanks to the many people that have wished him well. he is one of the uk's best—known and best respected journalist. he has reported from iraq, afghanistan, he was at the bbc, aljazeera, he is the foreign affairs editor for itv and present regularly. he has received thousands of messages from concerned people on

social media and messages of support from his colleagues. thank you very much. a british man has been seriously injured after he was attacked by a shark in the caribbean. the 64—year—old from hertfordshire was attacked off the north coast of tobago. he suffered multiple injuries and has had surgery to reattach some of his fingers. officials on the island say the man is stable and expected to recover. elon musk�*s social media platform x has defended publishing posts showing a bishop in australia being stabbed during a sermon. the app, formerly known as twitter, rejected a regulator's order to take down the content because of its violent and offensive nature. in a post on friday, x's "global government affairs" account said: first, we believe that these posts should not have been banned in australia at all. the content within the posts does not encourage or provoke violence... it also said, the content can be reasonably considered (ani)as

part of public discussion or debate —— under australian law. the order to take down the video has sparked heated public exchanges between mr musk and australian government officials. they claim that police have fears the video is being used to encourage people to join terror groups. dan svantesson is a professor specialising in internet law —— he explained how big a story this is in australia. this has dominated the news in the week that has been and the more heated debates gets more people exercising their free speech on this matter and temperatures have really risen. calls ranging from mask being jailed two politicians... risen. calls ranging from mask being jailed two politicians. . ._ jailed two politicians... comments have been made. _ jailed two politicians... comments have been made. what _ jailed two politicians... comments have been made. what is - jailed two politicians... comments have been made. what is the - jailed two politicians... comments| have been made. what is the legal position on this particular issue? the starting point here, i think, every responsible and mature platform should be deleting this

sort of content voluntarily. other platforms, you know, the big ones that we are used to, have already done so but x have decided to battle a free—speech fight on issue. the problem i think is that there is no real free—speech value in the content of the question so to frame it as a free speech issue is a bit misguided. the real issue is the impact of the global take—down orders has of the internet as a whole. ~ ., ., orders has of the internet as a whole. ~ . ., ,, orders has of the internet as a whole. ~ . ., , ., whole. what are your personal thou~hts whole. what are your personal thoughts and _ whole. what are your personal thoughts and is _ whole. what are your personal thoughts and is this _ whole. what are your personal thoughts and is this a - whole. what are your personal thoughts and is this a case - whole. what are your personal thoughts and is this a case of. whole. what are your personal. thoughts and is this a case of free speech? i thoughts and is this a case of free seech? ., �* ~' , speech? i don't think there is unease free-speech - speech? i don't think there is unease free-speech value - speech? i don't think there is unease free-speech value in | speech? i don't think there is i unease free-speech value in the unease free—speech value in the content so x should remove it from the start. the unfortunate situation that we are in now is that safety commissioners have had to step in and it is going to court and so on. then things, in my view, have gone wrong direction but the order called for is global removal of this

content. x have volunteered to use this technology to made these might make this accessible to australians but the safety commissioner did not cease like this. saw as insufficient and requested a global take—down but you can imagine how quick this escalates and if every country can ask every platform can remove everything that is unlawful in a given country. in the us, pro—palestinian protests are continuing at major universities. several have called police in — leading to hundreds of arrests. at columbia university in new york — the center of the demonstrations — a student leader has been barred from the campus over comments he previously made. another day and another encampment has propped up in the us in this one of the year students were outside. we will not back down.—

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hundreds of arrests with students accused of trespassing. the protests started here by columbia university students more than one week ago. tensions have been fraught between those who are pro—palestinian and those who are pro—palestinian and those who are pro—israeli. both accusing each other of hate speech. one student has since apologised for prior remark saying that zionists don't deserve to live. hermione james has now been barred from the protest site. it is much calmer here today at columbia university but the students in the encampment behind me aren't budging on their demands. they and other students who are protesting across the country are calling on their universities to essentially cut economic and academic ties with israeli institutions. all of our demands have to be achieved through this encampment we are asking for financial transparency, cops of campus and amnesty for all students

that face disciplinary charges. fir that face disciplinary charges. or who have been suspended and arresleu _ who have been suspended and arrested. , , ., ., arrested. this is one of those students- _ arrested. this is one of those students- i — arrested. this is one of those students. i think _ arrested. this is one of those students. i think it _ arrested. this is one of those students. i think it was - arrested. this is one of those students. i think it was very i students. i think it was very jarring to be placed in zip ties and held for that long but i would also say that as a frustrating and scary as it was i was also very proud to be standing in solidarity with my peers. american campuses have long been political battleground, the october seven attacks in israel are the latest flash points with many universities struggling to rein in the protest. donald trump says he is ready to debate joe the protest. donald trump says he is ready to debatejoe biden anytime anyplace anywhere. after biden gave his clearest commitment yet to take on the former president in a televised debate. biden had previously said it depended on that tramp's behaviour. he has been asked many times but president biden has been tight—lipped on a presidential debate until now. i been tight-lipped on a presidential debate until now.— debate until now. i don't know if ou're debate until now. i don't know if you're going _ debate until now. i don't know if you're going to _ debate until now. i don't know if you're going to debate _ debate until now. i don't know if you're going to debate your - you're going to debate your opponent. i you're going to debate your opponent-— you're going to debate your opponent. you're going to debate your o- onent. ., ,., you're going to debate your

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is not until september. thank you to courtney for that. here the government is being urged to stop unpaid carers unwittingly rack up stop unpaid carers unwittingly rack up thousands of pounds of debt. carers can receive nearly £82 a week in benefits — but only if they earn less than £151 in net—pay from other work. as a result, many end up owing thousands of pounds if they go above that threshold. dan whitworth reports. thank you. unpaid carers who look after a loved one do an incrediblejob, often 2a hours a day, seven days a week with very few breaks, their lives dedicated to caring for someone else. of the nearly 6 million carers across the uk, just under a million receive carer�*s allowance. that's worth around £80 per week. 175,000 of them also have a job. but there's an earnings limit of £151, take home, pay a week, go above that limit even byjust a few pence, and you lose the entire allowance. that's what happened to karina, who cares for her daughter, amber,

who has complex needs and requires round the clock care. karina unknowingly earns slightly above the limit at her part time supermarketjob because the occasional hour or two of overtime but wasn't told by the department for work and pensions for three and a half years, so is now in the middle of slowly paying back £11,000. they need to stop the cliff edge so that if you earn over 50 ppi “ earn over —— earn over 50p too much... too much, that you maybe they take that away, not take all of it because they're pushing people into poverty. labour mp stephen timms, who chairs parliament's work and pensions committee, is urging the government to act quicker to warn carers who have exceeded the earnings limit. most of those notifications seem - to be completely ignored, so people carrying on carry on receiving - the benefit even though they're not entitled to it. and even though the department has been notified about that, we end - up with these enormous accidental

overpayments which should neverl have been allowed. the dwp says overpayments account for 2.1% of its £3.3 billion annual spend on carer�*s allowance. that works out at just over £2,000 worth of debt for each of the 311,000 carers with overpayments in the last year. it needs a fundamental review and that will take time. in the short term, what we need are for those overpayments to just be written off by this government in order to stop penalising the very lowest paid unpaid carers who are looking after our most vulnerable in society. in a statement, the dwp said carers across the uk are unsung heroes who make a huge difference but have a responsibility to inform them of any changes in their circumstances that could impact their reward to ensure fairness in the welfare system. with growing political and public pressure on this issue, campaigners will be hoping it stays that way

in the weeks and months to come. dan whitworth, bbc news. a hole in the ozone layer over antarctica — fuelled by smoke from bushfires in australia — is exposing wildlife to protentially damaging levels of uv light. scientists from the university of wollongong say animals and plants are having to put more energy into avoiding the rays. here's our science correspondent, victoria gill. the ozone layer that protects us from the sun's most harmful rays is healing, gradually, but in antarctica, in cold, high—atmospheric clouds, a hole in that layer still appears every year. that ozone thinning, or loss, used to peak in september or october, when animals and plants are tucked under winter snow and marine animals are protected by sea ice. but it's now lingering until december, well into the antarctic summer, when wildlife is much more vulnerable. researchers say that has been driven in part by smoke from the australian

wildfires in 2019 and 2020, which were fuelled by climate change. the researchers found evidence that antarctic plants might have to put more energy into producing their own protective sunscreen compounds, and krill, the marine crustaceans that are the foundation of the food chain in antarctica, move deeper into the ocean to avoid ultraviolet rays, while penguins and seals are protected by protective feathers and fur, scientists say exposure to damaging rays could harm their eyesight. the researchers say we can no longer take the recovery of the ozone layer for granted. it is more evidence, they point out, that carbon emissions have to be reduced quickly so that more bushfires don't put extra pressure on a vital shield in our atmosphere. victoria gill, bbc news. were going to head—butt to one of london's famous landmark. a team of window cleaners with a head for

height has been abseiling from the tower�*s walkways. dangling from ropes off the famous london landmark are a team of abseilers reaching the parts that others can't reach. what i'm doing now is i'm protecting the ropes as we go underneath, as humans don't do too well when they fall from heights. so what we've done is we've put platforms underneath. what the team will do is they will abseil over the platform as works positioning, clip into the steel beams underneath, and that way they can safely traverse and carry out the cleaning of the glazing. it's all right there. the walkways have glass floors for spectacular views of the bridge below, but now they've become a bit grimy and they've been clean for the first time. years of grime coming out of there, vince. look at that! beautiful. look at that. what we're doing is we're

cleaning with a nylon brush. we're using purified water, which doesn't leave any imperfections. so when you use it on the glass it's like this, it dries spot free, which means we haven't got to squeegee it off and get rid of any excess water, just a good rinse like that does the job. the bridge had to be closed through the night for the work to take place was but, of course, river traffic was flowing as normal. have you ever done anything like this before? we have done it on smaller bridges, but nothing quite of this stature nor of this prestige as well. so it's a huge honour, a huge privilege as well. the cost of this extreme window cleaning won't be picked by the taxpayer, it will be picked up by an ancient charity called the city bridge foundation. is there a lot of grime up there? there's not a lot, because it's on the underside the bridge, the dirt doesn't get there, the rain doesn't get there particularly much, but it is now needed,

particularly as you can see on the shelves and the steel work you can see the dirt on the tracks accumulating there. yeah, you can see years ofjust coming out there, it rinses off. lovely as well. though it's essentially only a matter of cleaning windows, this is a job that luke and his team will rememberfor a long time to come. that was vince rogers reporting. ijust want i just want to ijust want to bring you a quick update — a british man has been seriously injured when he was attacked by a shark in the caribbean. 64—year—old peter smith from hertfordshire was attacked off the north coast of tobago, close to the shore in courland bay. he suffered multiple injuries and has had surgery to reattach some of his fingers. officials on the island say the man is stable and expected to recover.

seven beaches were closed to allow the coast guard to investigate. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear. hello there. there's certainly going to be winners and losers with the weather story for the rest of the day. the best of the sunshine so far has been in the far north and west, but most of us under this influence of low pressure, and this weather front ahead of the main low, well, that has brought some outbreaks of rain. it's weakening all the time as it drift its way steadily northwards, a band of cloud and drizzle. so the best of the sunshine certainly has been in north—west scotland, just take a look at the western isles early on this morning. for scotland, for northern ireland and northern england as we go through the afternoon, it's a case of sunny spells and scattered showers, but we keep that cloud and drizzle across the midlands and into north wales. slowly brightening up south of the m4 corridor, but that in turn could trigger off one or two sharp, thundery downpours. temperatures today generally across the country a little below par for the time of year, so still that disappointing feel 9—11; degrees. but it will turn a little milder at the weekend continues. but it will also turn wetter through the evening and overnight as we see more rain spilling its way up from the channel and spreading

across eastern england. here we'll see temperatures holding up, but to the far north and west under those clearing skies, low enough once again for a touch of frost. but it's this low pressure that will bring some wet and increasingly windy weather, but it's also bringing some milder weather with it as well as the wind direction changes to more of a southerly or south—easterly. so a spell of heavy rain which will linger across north—east england and eastern scotland. west will be best through the afternoon. it'll be windy with the cloud and rain, and as a consequence, the temperatures really disappointing once again, 7—10 degrees, highest values of 13, possibly 1a. now, as we move into monday, not a bad start, and with that wind direction still coming from the south, some sunshine and some warmth. yes, it will turn cloudier and wetter from the west as we go through the day, but in that sunshine we could see temperatures peaking at 16, and it should feel quite pleasant, particularly in comparison to of late. warmer still as we go to the middle part of the week.

this area of low pressure will bring outbreaks of rain at times, but we're tapping into a south—easterly wind direction, and that will continue to drive in some warmer air, so temperatures just a little above where they should be for this time of year, but don't expect anything too dry, settled or sunny.

live from london. this is bbc news.

as a russian missile narrowly misses a kharkiv hospital, the pentagon says it will �*rush' air defence missiles to ukraine. british troops could be used to help deliver aid to gaza via a new sea route. the scottish government is on the edge after a week of turmoil. first minister humza yousaf is looking to shore up his position, seeking talks with other party leaders. south africa celebrates freedom day — thirty years since the end of apartheid and its first democratic elections. a great heaviness lifted from our shoulders. our shackles had been cast off. hello, i'm lewis vaughanjones. ukraine's president zelensky has renewed his appealfor allies to provide his country with more air defences, after another night

of russian bombardment caused serious damage to energy infrastructure.