the ukrainian boxer oleksandr usyk has become the first undisputed world heavyweight champion in a quarter of a century. he beat britain's tyson fury in a fiercely competitive contest in the saudi capital, riyadh, which went the entire 12 rounds. the ukrainian won on points. let's start with the big political interview of the day on sunday with laura kuenssberg. she spoke to the defence secretary, grant shapps, covering a wide range of defence issues as well as the infected

putin is bluffing this war by putting his entire economy onto a war footing in a way that isn't sustainable for russia over the years he would have to continue it for. it's important that the west does not blink. when you see what has happened in kharkiv, the second biggest city in ukraine, it is because, i'm afraid, the civilised world took their eyes off the ball just for a little while, we saw how long it took to get that package through the us congress because of internal politics there, and this is the actual upshot, this you are blaming the us, then. i'm not blaming them but the internal politics meant that the money did not flow in the way that in the uk were giving consistent amounts of money, then we increased it again, added an extra half a billion so we are giving them 3 billion this year, plus different packages. it is important that support is consistent because if you stop these are the problems you see. at the moment it is some

villages on the outskirts of kharkiv, and it is very important that the aid flows to ukraine so that they can push that back, and they will, but it does not get into this mess again. you are pointing at hold—ups in america. america and elsewhere. we have given on a consistent basis and we have been very forward leaning. when i speak to my opposite number or president zelensky, they would say that ukraine might not be in this war, had it not been for britain being prepared to be so forward leaning in our supported them. other european countries could be doing more, and we must not have this stop—start. so the uk has been generous... if you go around kyiv, you will see flags which are half ukraine,

half unionjack. we have been a couple of times. as piers is suggesting, there is more that the uk could do, and some of our viewers think this. julie has been in touch to say why isn't the uk giving ukraine what they need to defeat russia, are we scared of upsetting a bully? is it ok to shoot down a missiles heading to israel but not russian ones that are pummelling the life out of ukraine. there was a difference. israel is a democratic country but it is not in nato, and nor is ukraine, of course. ukraine are in a war against russia who are trying to undermine nato. we don't want to be in a direct conflict with russia, but we are determined to supply the weapons, the resources, the training,

65,000 ukrainians trained in britain with partnerships from other countries, so we are doing all of that, but we do not intend to go and fight that war. in israel, different circumstances. iran, whose only interest is keeping themselves in power, theology, attacking a democracy, i think everyone thinks it is right to stop those incoming missiles are reaching a democracy in this situation. there was a question of principle. asjulie, our viewer laid out that principle, and what president zelensky said in recent days, we have 25% of what we need to defend ukraine, just 25%. isn't there more that the uk and its allies should be doing now? if everybody was acting in the way that the united kingdom has, ukraine would clearly have a lot more resource. each year, we have increased the amount of money going to ukraine to fight the war in addition to other assistance, probably about £12.5

billion overall, so far. we are providing more gifting, i have outlined below today of weapons that are coming to the end of our usefulness and we are providing them for ukraine, a lot of land weapons, boots and other things, missile defences, and this country has organised internationally the international fund for ukraine to collect money from others to provide for ukraine. my point is that we are the second biggest spender in nato, by far the biggest military spender in europe, asjens stoltenberg, the nato secretary—general, said to me last week. we want others to match what we are doing and that will help ukraine. there is a question about how they are fighting and how they are allowed to fight. would it be acceptable for ukrainians to use british supplied weaponry to attack inside russia?

we have been very clear with the world and helpful to ukraine. for example, providing permissions for our weapons to be used throughout the whole of ukraine. in russia? that includes crimea, which was taken by putin in 2014. we do not get into how we would allow targeting of our weapons to be used outside of that, but we provide weapons to ukraine, in orderfor them to defend their country. before we get onto, should they be used over borders into russia, there is the question of other countries providing those permissions for the weapons to be used in crimea, because that is a very important, the black sea is a very important... there was a clear request from president zelensky, he believes should not be any ban on how they weapons are used once they are granted. do you, as the british defence secretary, think it should be up to president zelensky to decide how to use those weapons, or up to

the country who has provided them? they are in a war. they need to defend their own territory. i get well you're doing here. i cannot go into the specifics of those private conversations about how they weapons are precisely used, i cannot go into detail, but i can be absolutely clear that those weapons can and should add are, in our case, used in the whole of ukraine including crimea. this is very important because the black sea and crimea was uncontested after putin took it in 2014. since the uk involvement and bringing in other countries, france as america, to support us, that is very much contested. the russian black sea fleet no longer sails in the black sea. that is the first time for probably 250 years that they have not had the freedom of their own navigation there. it is important to let

ukraine prosecute this war. i cannot go into specifics about how the weapons may be used because there are sensitive issues. your colleague david cameron, the foreign secretary, has talked about this before, american politicians have spoken about it, why won't you? it is not something i can go into on air, about those targeting decisions. in terms of general levels of defence spending, rishi sunak recently said the election of keir starmer would make the country less safe because labour wouldn't commit to matching your pledge of defence spending of 2.5% of the size of the economy, but that has only been policy for a couple of weeks. so was rishi sunak a danger, last month? i made a speech at lancaster house in london injanuary saying that it is a more dangerous world, i used the phrase, having moved from post—war, to pre—war, and then we work through because these things cannot happen through wishful

thinking, you have to say how you will pay for it. the answer is that we would reduce the size of the civil service back to where it was before covid, and use that money to help pay for the increase in defence spending. it was borisjohnson�*s policy in 2022 and a couple of weeks ago rishi sunak accused keir starmer of being a danger to the nation for not committing to the same thing thatjust a few weeks ago, you had not committed to. is itjust electioneering? you have to start coming up with plants and if you don't have a route to get that it's wishful thinking to say we want to get there, people will quite rightly question whether that's likely to be the case. why? because keir starmer leads a party where dozens voted against the nuclear deterrent which he now says he is in favour of. he twice supported a leader who wanted to get us out of nato.

isn't this the kind of things that drives our view is round the twist? you are accusing labour of being a dangerfor being in exactly the same position that you were in a matter of weeks ago. the difference is i think we are now getting towards, and we said there will be an election in the second half of the year, we are getting towards the general election in the second half of the year and it's not unreasonable to expect political parties to set up their platform. if they are unable to land it's wishful thinking, we won't swim the size of the civil service as we've said to pay for it, then how are you going to pay for it? those are reasonable questions for us and as the media. the first thing to do is to get us to 2.5%. we need to do this at a speed where we don'tjust sock in imports in defensive equipment from america and elsewhere, we build our own industrial base

and the path we've set to 2.5% allows us to build up our industry to be able to produce that defence equipment and there are about 400,000 people who work in that industry and we want to expand that. i want to speak about gaza, but first i want to ask you about a story this morning that the uk right now has only got one plane to send to the d—day commemorations for a parachute display. it's massively important to commemorate and remember the past otherwise we will end up making the same mistakes in the future. this was only brought to me very recently and i certainly do want to see that properly covered so i've no doubt we will have additional planes there. it is actually the case that the aircraft are being used in operations at the moment, one of the reasons why i had successfully argued to get 75 billion more in cash terms into our armed forces because i think we do need to be doing more. the first batch of aid has been delivered across a temporary peer off the coast of gaza. we can show our viewers

those pictures. we think there are more than a million people in that tiny strip of land without enough food, without enough water, without enough fuel. the world's solution appears to be this floating platform that is shorter than southend pier. do you really think this is going to match up to the scale of the challenge which is potentially famine in for more than a million people? of course it isn't, and it would be ridiculous to suggest otherwise. does that mean we shouldn't be doing it? of course we should be doing it. the uk, without much fanfare, have been delivering aid by sea, air, road and the pier is another way of getting in aid. we are helping to organise the dispatch of that from cyprus. we have the command and patrol ship in rfa cardigan bay in the mediterranean, and we are getting that aid onto the landing gaza. of course it's not the only thing we should be doing, it

would be ridiculous to suggest otherwise. tomorrow we are going to see the publication of the report into the infected blood scandal which affected so many people over such a long time. can you commit to spending the 10 billion on compensation we understand is on the way? i think it's taken far too long to get to this point. this has been going on for decades. i've had constituents, a mother and father who sadly lost their son decades ago. the fact it's taken all this time to get to the truth is heartbreaking. i haven't yet seen the report, the government has already said it will want to respond quickly, so i know that that's what will happen. can you confirm the compensation? i'm not in a position to talk about it but i do know from my own constituents case work it's heartbreaking and it's the system over decades having let down those families.

a 14—year—old boy has died and a 13—year—old boy is in a critical condition after getting into difficulty in the river tyne at 0vingham in northumberland on saturday, the boys went into the water near to 0vingham bridge yesterday afternoon and multiple emergency service crews were deployed to the scene. police have asked the public to stay away from the area. i want to repeat that brighter news, a 14—year—old boy has died and a 13—year—old is in critical condition after they got into difficulties in the river tyne. we will bring you more updates when we have them. we were talking about the infected blood scandal earlier, and we also heard grant shapps speaking to laura kuenssberg, describing the infected blood scandal is heartbreaking. he also said there was a shared responsibility to put it right.

an inquiry into the uk's biggest health scandal will release its final report on monday. the scale of what happened is almost unprecedented in british medical history. more than 30,000 people in britain were infected with hiv and hepatitis c after being given contaminated blood products by the national health service in the 19705, �*80s and �*90s. many have since died, while some unknowingly passed infections on to partners who then died. victims and their families have spent decades fighting for compensation. joining me now is cara mcgoogan, a journalist who has investigated the uk blood scandal for her book, the poison line. and stephen smith who contracted hepatitis c from a contaminated blood transfusion when he was 22. thank you both for your time. cara,

before i bring you in, stephen, i want to understand your story. we mentioned there that you contracted hepatitis a after a contaminated blood transfusion. now, first, when did you first start noticing the symptoms? i did you first start noticing the symptoms?— did you first start noticing the s mtoms? . ., , ., , ,., symptoms? i had a blood transfusion in december— symptoms? i had a blood transfusion in december of _ symptoms? i had a blood transfusion in december of 1985 _ symptoms? i had a blood transfusion in december of 1985 after— symptoms? i had a blood transfusion in december of 1985 after putting - symptoms? i had a blood transfusion in december of 1985 after putting myj in december of 1985 after putting my foot through a glass door, i severed an artery and lost 4.5 pints of blood. i had four transfusions in total, and i would say probably six months after that, so probably 1986, i started to notice that my mood was changing and i was being very lethargic. i did used to do sport backin lethargic. i did used to do sport back in the day, so i didn't realise and it went on for 36 years until i

did find out and it came as a hell of a shock. did find out and it came as a hell of a shock-— of a shock. that is an incredible amount of _ of a shock. that is an incredible amount of time _ of a shock. that is an incredible amount of time to _ of a shock. that is an incredible amount of time to wait - of a shock. that is an incredible amount of time to wait before l of a shock. that is an incredible i amount of time to wait before you found out what went wrong. could you describe the moment you were told? i used to live in essex, and i moved four years ago. whilst i was in essex, i was having conversations with doctors and consultants because of the pain. i moved to cornwall for a better way of life, and luckily i did, because the test i was having in essex were coming up negative,

and when i moved to cornwall it was and when i moved to cornwall it was a little gp in cornwall, and it was during a phone call when he asked about my health in general, so i said the usual, stomach pains, back pains, depressed all the time, tired. he said, what is that all about? i said, tired. he said, what is that all about? isaid, i don't tired. he said, what is that all about? i said, i don't know, so he decided, he was the only one who decided, he was the only one who decided, i will give you a test, and that came back for hepatitis c, and in 2021, around june time, i received a phone call and was told that i have got hepatitis c. what is that? i had heard about it.- that? i had heard about it. there have been _ that? i had heard about it. there have been some _ that? i had heard about it. there have been some spikes - that? i had heard about it. there have been some spikes in - that? i had heard about it. there l have been some spikes in hepatitis that? i had heard about it. there have been some spikes in hepatitis a blood tests now that this is being covered widely, i'm sorry that it took so long for you to find out what happened. ijust want took so long for you to find out what happened. i just want to ask, took so long for you to find out what happened. ijust want to ask, i know this is difficult, reliving it

is difficult, but your wife died from liver cancer, and you have told our producer before this that you were concerned that perhaps your own diagnosis had had something to do with it. that question hasn't been answered, but i wonder, you already have all the difficulty of what you have all the difficulty of what you have talked about, about reliving this as well, i appreciate that. how have you come to terms, have you come to terms with the unanswered questions about your wife's death? well, you just mentioned the other person that you have got coming on, cara, and when i first found out about having hepatitis a, i knew very little about it, so i was advised to get in touch with the hepatitis trust, who were very helpful, and i was also advised to

talk to a lady called karen mcgugan, she explained more about the infected blood scandal than anyone. —— cara mcgoogan. i decided to look into it, and the difference between me and the haemophiliacs, who have had a horrendous time, it is all going to come out in the inquiry tomorrow, and they have lived with it for the last 40 years, many have died. myself, i have only found out in the last three years, and one of the things i found out is that you can pass hepatitis c on through sexual intercourse, and my wife died of liver cancer, and hepatitis c is what a taxi or liver, it makes you more prone to cancer, which they tested me for, because i wasn't sure if i had that or not. i am convinced i killed my wife. they say it is a

small percentage, but the more people i speak to now, many of them have passed it on, but i am now convinced that i killed my late wife yvonne, she passed away in 2012. so evenin yvonne, she passed away in 2012. so even in 2012, i still didn't know, it took me until 2021, so we are talking nine or ten years after the event of her passing away, which that in itself was devastating, then to find out, oh, was it possibly killed her? so now i have got to live with that as well, on top of everything else, it is horrendous. stephen, i am so sorry, no—one can imagine stephen, i am so sorry, no-one can imaa-in . stephen, i am so sorry, no-one can ima in ~. . , stephen, i am so sorry, no-one can ima. in ~. ., , ~' stephen, i am so sorry, no-one can imauin . , ~' ., stephen, i am so sorry, no-one can imauin . , ~ ., ., stephen, i am so sorry, no-one can imauin . , ~' ., . . imagine what it is like to have that auestion imagine what it is like to have that question being _ imagine what it is like to have that question being unanswered. - imagine what it is like to have that question being unanswered. colli i question being unanswered. colli cara, i want to bring you in now, what stephenjust cara, i want to bring you in now, what stephen just described is horrific, and your book describes

the moment when people started trying to raise the alarm about this, how would you describe the response once companies and the government started realising that something had gone terribly wrong here? tell us out well, thank you, it is good to hear stephen's story again, we did speak a couple of weeks after he was first diagnosed in 2021, and it was such a shock that people were receiving these diagnoses this light. the mistake started back in the 19705, when factor viii, this new miracle treatment for haemophilia wa5 treatment for haemophilia was licensed. it was clear it could contain hepatiti5, licensed. it was clear it could contain hepatitis, and through the 19705, a new virulent strain of hepatitis, now known as hepatitis c, hepatiti5, now known as hepatitis c, was being established, and they can say that patients with haemophilia were contracting this virus. in the 19805, we have a slow response to the new aid5 cri5i5, three patients

in america had age—related symptoms in america had age—related symptoms in 1982, and it is well into 1983 and 1984 that in the uk we are still slowing our response to that illne55, saying there is no illness, saying there is no conclusive proof that factor viii can transmit aids. people who contracted it were given their diagnoses, but 40 years on we are only now— diagnoses, but 40 years on we are only nowjust getting the results of the inquiry, so it has been a 50 year— the inquiry, so it has been a 50 year span— the inquiry, so it has been a 50 year span of mistakes and cover—ups that have _ year span of mistakes and cover—ups that have led to people with haemophilia and those who have had transfusions having to fight for justice — transfusions having to fight for justice and answers.— transfusions having to fight for justice and answers. listening to cara describe — justice and answers. listening to cara describe that, _ justice and answers. listening to cara describe that, the _ justice and answers. listening to cara describe that, the fact - justice and answers. listening to cara describe that, the fact that| justice and answers. listening to l cara describe that, the fact that it cara de5cribe that, the fact that it has taken so long for us to get a report, some answers, that is going to be tomorrow, and you heard grant

shapp5 earlier today saying that it was heartbreaking and there was a wa5 heartbreaking and there was a shared responsibility to fix and for there to be accountability for what has happened to you, as well as others, what does justice look like to you? others, what does 'ustice look like to ou? �* , ., ., , to you? i've been waiting for this cuestion, to you? i've been waiting for this question, because _ to you? i've been waiting for this question, because cara - to you? i've been waiting for this question, because cara has - to you? i've been waiting for this - question, because cara has answered the same question, i have asked that question by many people. when i first found out i had this, i had a generic answer, you know, we want justice, we want contrition, we want an apology. 0f justice, we want contrition, we want an apology. of course, it goes without saying, but who is going to give this apology? is it the present government? i would give this apology? is it the present government? iwould pre5ume give this apology? is it the present government? i would pre5ume 5o. give this apology? is it the present government? i would pre5ume so. and if it is the present government, we had a victim5 if it is the present government, we had a victims and prisons build go through parliament in december, and the majority of the compact voted against it, it was only because of

the opposition and approximately 20 good conservatives that have got integrity, they voted for it, and it went through about three or four votes. so you listen to grant shapp5 and some of the other politicians that was the inquiry, i mean, you ask grant shapps, will we be getting a5k grant shapps, will we be getting the compensation? it is a yes or no question, and he went round it. yes, he said sorry. so what do i want? what do i want? ye5, he said sorry. so what do i want? what do i want? yes, all of the above, but me, iwant what do i want? yes, all of the above, but me, i want substantial compensation for me and everybody else, i expect us to get at least what the post office scandal people are going, tho5e what the post office scandal people are going, those who lost their liberty, a5 are going, those who lost their liberty, as bad as what that was, i think this is another level. actions speak louder than words. sorry i5 speak louder than words. sorry is not going to cut it for me, but

compensation will help pay off the debts i have incurred, because i had to pack in work. people that lost children, give them a decent headstone and pay off their debts a5 headstone and pay off their debts as well. ye5, headstone and pay off their debts as well. yes, we will take the apology, however meaningful that will be. i would also like to say, finally, people come before the court. we have got certain politicians who were in charge then that have been at the inquiry who knew full well about all of this. the police should go around and investigate these people. one of the politicians that was there that it was bad luck. is that what it was, all of us dying and getting hiv and all that? we know what we are talking about here. that is what i would like to say. stephen, there are no words to describe what you have been through, thank you for sharing your story, cara, thank you for your reporting

and investigations into this. and a reminder, we will have full coverage of the infected blood scandal inquiry conclusion tomorrow here on the bbc news. you will be able follow it live on the bbc news website and app and also on bbc iplayer. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt taylor. hello. a fine sunday for many, but there will be some big weather and temperature contra5t5 across the uk today where we've got some of that lingering fog into the afternoon, particularly around some north sea coast temperatures will probably hold at around 12 cel5ius, but with some longer spell5 of sunshine, a sunnier day than yesterday, some of the warmest weather, 25 degrees, will be found acro55 parts of south england and southeast wale5. here, certainly more 5un5hine than yesterday. we will see a few isolated showers pop up, lots of low clouds lingering towards the north and the east. here's the details for the afternoon, though. mid—afternoon, tho5e lively shower5, quite pokey one5 across some 5outhern counties and south wales, but nowhere near as extensive thunderstorms as we saw through yesterday. that low cloud probably around the coast of yorkshire northwards. a few heavy showers and thunderstorms, though, around the southern uplands and the cumbrian fells, 20 to 23 here down a bit on yesterday,

but always cooler compared with recent days across the far north of scotland. now, into tonight, mi5t, low cloud will roll in more widely across the eastern half of the uk. could come as far west as the midlands, maybe getting into parts of western scotland, too, but some clear skies in the west. but even here the odd fog patch po55ible, temperatures similar to recent mornings. it does make for a bit of a grey and a bit of a slow commute for some of you on monday morning. a lot of that low cloud, though, breaking up quite quickly here in the morning. they will see patchy 5till across some northern areas. a heavy shower to the west of northern ireland into the second half of the day. the highs of the temperatures up to 23 degrees. elsewhere, down a little bit on what we've seen this weekend. a few isolated showers towards the south east later on and a greater risk of showers on tuesday. starting to see the weather change after this warmth of the weekend. showers and thunderstorms more widely, scotland, northern england and across ireland. there'll still be some longer spell5 of sunny weather acro55 part5 of england and wales and still warm in that sunshine, too.

but the big change really comes late tuesday into wednesday, gathering in the near continent, an area of low pressure, more extensive rain, how far north that goes and how quickly it moves across the country. a bit of a question mark at the moment, but it's certainly going to bring windier conditions compared to what we've seen this weekend and into the start of the week where we'll 5till have some 5un5hine quite widely. outbreaks of rain then developing from tuesday onwards, and as i said, it will start to feel a little bit cooler compared to this weekend, too. bye for now. live from london, this is bbc news. joe biden'5 national security adviser hold5 talks with saudi arabia's crown prince in the latest bid to halt the fighting in gaza. a 14—year—old boy dies after getting into difficulty in the river tyne in the northeast of england. a 13—year—old remains in a critical condition. the uk'5 biggest ever health scandal — billions of pounds

of compensation are expected in the infected blood scandal. ukraine's 0leksander u5yk beats the uk'5 tyson fury — to become the first unified world heavyweight boxing champion for a quarter—of—a—century. and judgment day — will it be arsenal or manchester city celebrating as the premier league 5eason comes to a close? hello. i'm azadeh moshiri. president biden'5 national security adviser is due to hold talks with saudi arabia's crown prince in the saudi city of dhahran. it's the latest us diplomatic initiative to try to halt the fighting in gaza. previou5 talks involving israel and hamas have failed to make a significant breakthrough. in the latest violence, at least 28 palestinians are reported to have been killed, most of them in a strike on a house in nu5eirat in the central gaza strip. benny gantz, a member of the war

cabinet has threatened to withdraw his centrist party from the coalition unle55 prime