Revealed:
The plot to assassinate two TV news anchors on the streets of London.
A double agent describes how he was hired by Iran to carry out the attack at a business park in Chiswick.
The presenters only learned they were targets a year later, when contacted by ITV News.
I’m in a bunker beneath the silent streets of Kyiv. Around 30 people are here - kids drawing, teenagers on smart phones, parents wondering what tonight will bring - so are we. Some people raced down just before curfew, some won’t bother going back up until they absolutely have to
An Australian senator who sparked outrage for blaming the New Zealand mosque shootings on Muslim immigration punches a child who hit him on the head with an egg.
Stabbing in Stanwell, Surrey declared a terrorist incident. Police responded to reports of a man acting aggressively and shouting racist comments whilst carrying a baseball bat and a knife. “...hallmarks of a terror event, inspired by the far right” say counter-terrorism police
This morning I told Shamima Begum that she had been stripped of her British citizenship - and showed her the letter that had been sent to her family. “It’s kind of heartbreaking to read” she told me. “It’s kind of hard to swallow”
It's 43 days since our former ITV News colleague in Zimbabwe, Hopewell Chin’ono, was detained shortly after exposing government corruption. Now there are fears for his health not just his case. Today he was brought to court despite fears he has Covid-19. He spoke to News at Ten.
ITV News filmmaker whose “extraordinary eyewitness journalism” from Ghouta is nominated for one of the industry’s top awards, is barred from the UK so can’t attend next week’s ceremony. Officials think there’s a chance he won’t leave (there’s no chance)
One of the largest gathering of Heads of State in recent times is about to begin at Buckingham Palace. Joe Biden can use his armoured limo ‘The Beast’ to get there - but others just arrived on a fleet of buses. Some irritated foreign diplomats call the arrangements “undignified”
Dozens of metal balls close to the spot where a Russian drone was shot down by Ukrainian forces in central Kyiv this morning. Police say they were packed into the device to cause maximum damage. All this in a busy residential area.
‘Disaster Girl’ - also known as Zoë Roth - is now a college senior. She became the face of a meme, made $500,000 and plans to pay off student debts and donate to charity
Spent the day in Irpin, 16 miles from Kyiv. Thousands of civilians have fled over rubble, a river, then under a blown-up bridge to escape Russian bombardment. Met an elderly woman… alone, using a walking stick, clutching railings for support. She said she had escaped “hell”
We’ve been in Jamaica asking people about the Coronation. Widespread disinterest. Most people we spoke to were more interested in the English Premier League this week than the British Royal Family - and feel only one of these U.K. institutions welcomes Black people.
Those who say booze/boredom/the topping of a statue are the simple explanations for the disorder in London might have missed something. The rising confidence of Britain’s extreme right wing - the normalising of some of its language - didn’t begin when the pubs closed for lockdown
Nadezhda survived WW2. She still feels the pain in her foot from the injury she sustained escaping into the woods as a child in the 40s. Today she is hiding from conflict again - from the Russian army. Last night was her fourth in an underground bunker
New allegations against Russian troops who took Kyiv suburb:
They’re alleged to have raped, held hostage a girl whose mother died during detention
Soldiers accused of shooting dead two elderly men who dared to leave their homes
Irpin resident says evacuee coaches were shot at
Russian troops are alleged to have raped and held hostage a teenage girl whose mum died while she was being detained against her will, ITV News has been told
@RohitKachrooITV
spoke to the volunteer who rescued the girl and relayed the horrifying details
Evacuation from Mariupol postponed. Russia declared a ceasefire - officials say they’ve ignored it. Echoes of Syria where Russian approach to ceasefires and humanitarian corridors has been: ignore and regroup.
‘Jihadi Jack’ - Jack Letts - is stripped of his British citizenship. He was a dual British-Canadian national. Mail on Sunday reports there has been a furious response from Canadian government
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@RohitKachrooITV
I thought I'd read somewhere he's type 1 diabetic and it looked like he was having a diabetic hypo. Hope someone gets his sugar level up!
Signing off from Kyiv with huge respect and admiration for our Ukrainian colleagues who don’t have the option to just duck out for a while in the way visiting journalists can.
Kseniia Kozhushko, Grigory Kuznetsov, Maxym Olshyn and many others.
We pieced together what happened inside a hospital in Mariupol after the invasion. Russian forces killed as many as 50 patients who resisted attempts to forcibly deport them - “revenge for disobedience” the city’s mayor says
For a second day Russian forces are taking a familiar approach to the ceasefire in Mariupol: declare it then ignore it, attack then regroup. Yesterday in Ukraine, previously in Syria.
New details from AFP here. Sri Lanka's police chief issued an intelligence alert 10 days ago, warning that suicide bombers planned to hit "prominent churches" and Indian High Commission. The warning followed a tip off from a foreign intelligence agency
Two applications submitted, ITV News promised to book return flights and accompany him during the short visit... even provided evidence that he had been offered a job in Turkey, and that his wife is at university there
Met Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu says the “terrible news has only served to strengthen our resolve to identify and bring to justice the person or persons responsible for what I can only describe as an outrageous, reckless and barbaric act.”
The Telegraph reports that UK Foreign Secretary Cameron summoned Iran’s most senior diplomat in the UK on Friday over ITV News revelation that Iranian spies offered a people smuggler $200k to assassinate two news presenters at
@IranIntl
How a Damascus hospital became a secret “slaughterhouse” for anti-Assad Syrians. Doctors and nurses use medical equipment to taunt, torture and kill during check-ups. Images of a nearby mass grave taken two days ago show an open pit ready to take bodies.
Home Office: “..the Home Secretary has clearly stated that his priority is the safety and security of Britain and the people who live here. In order to protect this country, he has the power to deprive someone of their British citizenship where it would not render them stateless”
Sitting next to Meghan Markle’s old drama teacher. She says her former student waved at her and said ‘oh my god’ when she spotted her in the crowd. They’ve not seen each other for twenty years
Riley Williams packed up and left her home in Pennsylvania just before we arrived at her home last night. But there’s been no visit by the FBI. “Well she figures if it’s out there they’ll come to her and ask her about it," her mother told us.
Who is the young woman who appeared to direct rioters during the storming of the US Capitol? ITV News has identified her. Ten days after the siege, her parents say the FBI/law enforcement haven’t been in touch - and she won’t hand herself in. ITV at 2240 and online shortly.
Zimbabwe government spokesman Nick Mangwana blames 'interfering' foreign governments for attempting to influence Hopewell Chin'ono's case. His critique has echoes of the Mugabe era
Helping us assess what Jamaicans are thinking about monarchy was Barbara Blake-Hannah - the first Black woman to be a reporter on U.K. TV. She was a television pioneer in the 1960s but was forced off TV screens because of racism before her story was widely known.
We were among the first people from outside her village that Ludmila was able to speak to for eight months.
She hugged and kissed Ukrainian soldiers when they finally arrived yesterday.
Today she gave them - and us - a bag of the grapes she’s been growing during occupation
UK’s Chief of Defence Intelligence:
“The Kremlin has so far failed to achieve its original objectives”
“Russian operations have changed. Russia is now pursuing a Strategy of Attrition. This will involve the reckless and indiscriminate use of firepower”
We spent a night with Ukrainians taking shelter from bombs beneath Kyiv’s silent streets. As we saw, there was no one way to respond as the troops crept closer. A 90 year old woman remembered escaping bombs in the 1940s, kids drew flags and played games
How does Israel justify its strike against a tower block which houses news organisations like AP and Al Jazeera? We asked Israel Defense Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus
Strong statement. Kenya’s fury at the U.K. government after being added to travel ‘red list’. Says in “seeking to build back better”, U.K. should have shared vaccines with Kenya instead of practising “a form of vaccine nationalism”. Speaks of an international “vaccine apartheid”.
The gym chain David Lloyd Clubs is in talks with the government about converting some of its leisure centres into temporary hospitals to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed during the coronavirus pandemic, ITV News has learned. “A handful” of its health clubs could be used.
NEW: I understand the NEC near Birmingham is being considered as a potential site for a temporary hospital to care for coronavirus patients. Officials are concerned by the rising number of cases in the West Midlands.
An Iranian diplomat has just been given a 20-year sentence for planning a bomb attack against an exiled opposition group at a rally in France. The judge says he was supported by the authorities in Tehran. British MPs and Rudy Giuliani attended the event.
Kyiv overnight: Continuous rocket shelling, gun battles. Huge blasts, red clouds over SW of the city close to a military airfield. Many people raced for bunkers as sirens sounded. Curfew continues until tomorrow AM. Ukrainian forces resisting, city remains under their control.
The town of Balakliya, Kharkiv region, is liberated by Ukrainian troops!
The Commander of Ukrainian Land Forces, Hero of Ukraine, Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi is leading the Ukrainian offensive in this sector.
The Ukrainian flag has been raised in the town centre.
The bar is high for International Criminal Court judges to issue an arrest warrant against a head of state - today they did against Vladimir Putin.
No immunity for a head of state in a case involving war crimes, genocide or crimes against humanity.
New satellite images show Russian convoy moving closer to Kyiv. It is approximately 17 miles from the center of the city and stretches over nearly 17 miles. Hundreds of armoured vehicles, tanks and support vehicles.
Images from
@Maxar
Self-invoked tweet. I’m adding one word and a bit more of the world to my job from tonight. I’ll now be covering more of the issues that shape the world beyond terrorism as Global Security Editor - beginning with the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist on News at Ten.
Shamima Begum seemed dazed when I told her she was no longer a UK citizen. Last week she told The Times that she’d been unfazed by the sight of severed heads. She said the case was ‘unjust’ and asked for the Home Secretary to review. Video on shortly
Scotland Yard confirms the London Bridge terror suspect shot dead this afternoon was 28-year-old Usman Khan, who was convicted in 2012 for terrorism offences and released from prison in December 2018 on licence
Riley Williams has been charged. The FBI is investigating claims she stole a computer from the office of Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker, and attempted to sell it in Russia.
“Enemies are only friends waiting to be made”. A few years ago, shortly after his retirement, I asked Archbishop Desmond Tutu to summarise his career and to reflect on the lessons of his life.
Who is the young woman who appeared to direct rioters during the storming of the US Capitol? ITV News has identified her. Ten days after the siege, her parents say the FBI/law enforcement haven’t been in touch - and she won’t hand herself in. ITV at 2240 and online shortly.
Our Programme Editor Mike Rigby has currently been going up and down in a lift for half an hour with no sign of escape. The bulletin tonight could be sparse without his heavy LIFTing
#upanddown
Our report from Taiz in Yemen’s highlands is a story of separation: where a front line divides Houthis and government soldiers, separates civilians from food, medicine and loved ones… and allows water to be used as a weapon more powerful than any missile
The battle of the bookshelves. Self isolated journalists on TV over Skype taking the opportunity to show everyone how well read they are. A real showcase.
Always strong support of the UK is now impenetrable and ready for challenges. In a conversation with the Prime Minister,
@RishiSunak
, I thanked for the decisions that will not only strengthen us on the battlefield, but also send the right signal to other partners.
Fozia Hanif never got to meet her new-born baby but held a picture of him before she died in hospital with coronavirus. She had just celebrated her 29th birthday when she started to develop symptoms and tested positive, forcing a premature birth of her boy, Ayaan, on April 2.
Western intelligence indicates Russian officials were told by the Chinese government to delay the invasion of Ukraine until after the Winter Olympics, officials have told ITV News. The closing ceremony in Beijing was on 20th Feb. A full scale invasion was launched on 24th Feb.
@Josiensor
@waelo01
Oh dear. In Humam’s case ITV News submitted two applications, they guaranteed they would book return flights AND that they accompany him during his visit... even provided evidence that he had been offered a job in Turkey, and that his wife is at university there