Six O'Clock News
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21/04/2022 Boris Johnson is to face a Parliamentary committee inquiry into claims that he misled the House of Commons
April 21, 2022 17:38 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBBoris Johnson is to face a Parliamentary committee inquiry into claims that he misled the House of Commons after MPs approved the move this afternoon.
20/04/2022 Ukrainian Forces in Mariupol Close to Defeat
April 20, 2022 17:50 - 30 minutes - 28 MBA Ukrainian commander in Mariupol said forces there were facing their final days. And all Russian and Belorussian tennis players have been banned from this year's Wimbledon.
19/04/2022 PM apologises to MPs over lockdown parties
April 19, 2022 17:33 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBMPs to decide if Boris Johnson should be investigated over lockdown party statements
18/04/2022 Russia expands its air-strikes across Ukraine
April 18, 2022 17:37 - 30 minutes - 28 MBRussia further expands its air-strikes across Ukraine.
17/04/2022 Archbishop attacks government's asylum policy
April 17, 2022 17:38 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBJustin Welby says sending refugees to Rwanda would be "the opposite of the nature of God". Ukraine says its soldiers, resisting Russian forces in Mariupol, will fight to the end.
16/04/2022 Russia targets military factories in Ukraine
April 16, 2022 17:34 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBMoscow's attacks look like a shift in focus since the sinking of flagship vessel Moskva. Civil service unions say a plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda is inhumane.
15/04/2022 Russia hits weapons factory in Kyiv
April 15, 2022 17:38 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBPlant makes the type of missiles which Ukraine claims sank Russian flagship Moskva. UK government insists its plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda will save tax-payers money.
14/04/2022 UK unveils Rwanda asylum plan
April 14, 2022 18:03 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBThe government agrees multi-million pound deal to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.
13/04/2022 Inflation at 30-year high
April 13, 2022 17:43 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBInflation has risen to 7 per cent - its highest level for thirty years.
12/04/2022 PM receives lockdown party fine
April 12, 2022 17:47 - 30 minutes - 28 MBBoris Johnson is fined for attending a lockdown party in breach of his own rules.
11/04/2022 Sir David Amess' Killer is Convicted of Murder
April 11, 2022 17:44 - 30 minutes - 28 MBThe man who killed the Conservative MP, Sir David Amess, has been convicted of murder. And Ukraine's president says tens of thousands of people may have died in Mariupol.
10/04/2022 Tight Race Expected In French Elections
April 10, 2022 17:44 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBClose contest between President Macron and Marine Le Pen is expected in first round.
08/04/2022 At least fifty civilians are believed to have been killed in a missile attack on a Ukranian railway station.
April 08, 2022 17:39 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBThere has been international condemnation after dozens of people died in an apparent Russian missile attack on a railway station, packed with families trying to flee the fighting.
08/04/2022
April 08, 2022 17:39 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBThere has been international condemnation after dozens of people died in an apparent Russian missile attack on a railway station, packed with families trying to flee the fighting.
07/04/2022 Government Energy Strategy Criticised
April 07, 2022 18:02 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBThe Prime Minister has defended the strategy, which aims to increase UK energy independence, and includes plans to boost nuclear, wind and hydrogen power.
06/04/2022 Russian troops accused of using Ukrainian civilians as human shields
April 06, 2022 18:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBUK and Washington announce more sanctions against Russia as evidence grows of alleged war crimes by Moscow's troops
05/04/2022 Ukraine's President Addresses UN Security Council
April 05, 2022 17:59 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBUkraine's president Zelensky addresses the United Nations Security Council
04/04/2022 Ukraine's President visits town where Russian atrocities are reported
April 04, 2022 17:50 - 30 minutes - 28 MBHe accuses Russia of committing genocide but Moscow says evidence from Bucha is fake
03/04/2022 World fury at civilian murders in Bucha
April 03, 2022 17:24 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBBoris Johnson says the deaths are further evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine
02/04/2022 Reports from Ukraine say at least 20 civilians have been killed by Russian troops retreating from the town of Bucha
April 02, 2022 17:28 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBReports from Ukraine say at least 20 civilians have been killed by Russian troops retreating from the town of Bucha
01/04/2022 UK Covid levels reach record high
April 01, 2022 17:58 - 30 minutes - 28 MBOffice for National Statistics figures are released on day free Covid-19 tests end for most people in England
31/03/2022 Rotherham child sex abuse scandal
March 31, 2022 19:29 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBNo police officers will lose their jobs over the child sex abuse scandal in Rotherham.
30/03/2022 Repeated failures at Shrewsbury hospital trust may have led to deaths of 200 babies
March 30, 2022 18:10 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBA report has been published looking at maternity care at Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust, which found errors that may have led to the deaths of more than 200 babies.
29/03/2022 Russia says it will reduce combat operations around Kyiv.
March 29, 2022 17:40 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBRussia has said it will drastically reduce its combat operations around Kyiv. The Met is to issue fixed penalty fines for Downing Street lockdown parties.
28/03/2022 Ukraine has closed humanitarian corridors for civilians to leave besieged towns because it fears Russian attacks
March 28, 2022 17:36 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBUkraine has closed humanitarian corridors for civilians to leave besieged towns and cities because it fears Russian attacks
27/03/2022 Fears of Ukraine split
March 27, 2022 17:28 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBUkrainian intelligence chief warns Russia may seek to divide the country.
26/03/2022 The US President calls Vladimir Putin a 'butcher'
March 26, 2022 18:41 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBRussia says Mr Biden's words diminish the chance of mending relations between Moscow and Washington
Moscow says it's changing its strategy in Ukraine, to focus on two Russian-backed separatist areas
March 25, 2022 18:36 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBMoscow says the focus of its campaign in Ukraine will now be on the Donbas region, including Russian-backed separatist areas
Moscow says it's changing it's strategy in Ukraine, to focus on two Russian-backed separatist areas
March 25, 2022 18:36 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBMoscow says the focus of its campaign in Ukraine will now be on the Donbas region, including Russian-backed separatist areas
Nato to deploy thousands more troops to Eastern Europe because of 'a new security reality'
March 24, 2022 18:37 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBNATO approves deployment of thousands more troops to eastern Europe. Ukraine claims to have destroyed massive Russian warship. P&O boss admits breaking the law over mass sackings
23/03/2022 Chancellor Delivers Spring Statement
March 23, 2022 20:06 - 30 minutes - 28 MBRishi Sunak has set out measures to soften the impact of rising prices. And a senior adviser to President Putin has resigned.
22/03/2022 Volodymyr Zelensky describes Ukraine as teetering on the 'brink of survival'
March 22, 2022 18:59 - 30 minutes - 28 MBHe calls for western nations to impose even tougher sanctions on Russia whose relentless shelling, he says, means there is now 'nothing left' in Mariupol
21/03/2022 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says government was too slow to secure her release
March 21, 2022 19:03 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has questioned why it's taken six years and five foreign secretaries to secure her release.
20/03/2022 Mariupol School Bombed
March 20, 2022 18:35 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBThe authorities in the Ukrainian city say the art school was sheltering around 400 people.
19/03/2022 Ukrainian forces in the southern port of Mariupol are continuing to fight fierce street battles.
March 19, 2022 18:47 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBUkrainian forces in the southern port of Mariupol are continuing to fight fierce street battles to prevent Russian troops gaining control.
18/03/2022 Dozens feared dead in missile attack on southern Ukraine
March 18, 2022 18:35 - 30 minutes - 28 MBAn army barracks was targeted in the southern city of Mykolaiv
17/03/2022 P&O Ferries sack eight hundred staff with immediate effect
March 17, 2022 18:41 - 30 minutes - 28 MBRussian forces in Ukraine continue to pound civilian targets.
16/03/2022 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is Freed
March 16, 2022 18:42 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been freed after six years detention in Iran. And Russian forces are continuing their bombardment of civilian buildings in Ukraine.
15/03/2022 A 35 hour curfew begins in Kyiv
March 15, 2022 18:54 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBThe mayor warns that the Ukrainian capital is facing "a difficult and dangerous moment".
14/03/2022 More flee beseiged Ukrainian city
March 14, 2022 18:36 - 30 minutes - 28 MBCivilian convoy leaves Mariupol ... as Russia and Ukraine hold more talks
13/03/2022 An attack on a military base in western Ukraine has prompted warnings the war is closer than ever to NATO territory.
March 13, 2022 18:46 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBA Russian missile attack on a military base in western Ukraine has prompted warnings that the war is closer than ever to NATO territory.
12/03/2022 Melitopol Mayor Taken by Russians
March 12, 2022 18:31 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBThe Ukrainian president has demanded the release of the mayor of Melitopol. And Poland passes a new law to settle refugees.
11/03/2022 Russia Attacks New Targets
March 11, 2022 18:44 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBRussian forces have launched attacks on several new fronts in Ukraine. The invaders have made significant gains in the south of the country.
10/03/2022 Ukraine Peace Talks Fail
March 10, 2022 18:55 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBMeeting between Russian and Ukrainian ministers ends without progress. Situation in besieged port of Mariupol is worsening; with food and water supplies dangerously low.
09/03/2022 Russia bombs maternity hospital in Ukrainian city of Mariupol
March 09, 2022 19:55 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBUkraine says children have been buried under the rubble of the destroyed hospital.
08/03/2022 Ukrainians scramble to flee fighting through humanitarian corridors
March 08, 2022 20:37 - 30 minutes - 28 MBUkrainians are escaping fighting after Russia agreed to humanitarian corridors.
07/03/2022 Ukraine: Russian shelling prevents evacuations
March 07, 2022 18:40 - 30 minutes - 28 MBRussia is bombarding key Ukrainian cities despite offering escape routes, Ukraine says.
06/03/2022 Heavy bombardment north of Kyiv
March 06, 2022 18:33 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBFamilies trying to flee caught in the line of fire. Evacuation of civilians from Mariupol fails again. Nearly 4,000 people arrested during anti-war protests across Russia.
05/03/2022 Evacuation from beseiged cities postponed
March 05, 2022 18:41 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBUkraine and Russia blame each other for failure to evacuate thousands of civilians. Ukraine's president issues fresh appeal for no-fly zone, but Russian leader warns against it.
04/03/2022 World condemns Russia over nuclear site bombing
March 04, 2022 18:47 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBMoscow faces worldwide condemnation for attacking a nuclear power station in Ukraine. One of the greatest cricketers of all time -- Shane Warne -- has died at the age of 52.