Alex Thomson , Chief Correspondent

After years of physical and mental stress, languishing in cockroach-ridden jails, toyed with by autocrats who seemed impervious to reason or empathy: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori are on a plane bound for Britain. 

For much of the day, mystery surrounded the whereabouts of the journalist who briefly took over the main Russian TV news programme last night. 

The future of Chelsea football club has been plunged into uncertainty after its owner, Roman Abramovich, was targeted by UK sanctions. 

The Russian parliament has passed a new law imposing jail terms of up to 15 years for spreading what they described as intentionally “fake” news about the military, which could discredit the armed forces.

In Russia, there has been talk of martial law being imposed. 

Many claim that the Russian invasion is not going to plan but few know exactly what that plan is.

The threat of nuclear war rang out from Moscow in Russia today, as Vladimir Putin ordered all his forces to “high combat alert”, following the invasion of Ukraine.

We spoke to Shaun Spearing from the Avon Fire & Rescue Service, and Matt Lenny who is in charge of emergency planning at North Somerset Council.

In the South West, the red weather warning was in place – and that risk-to-life warning, encouraging people to stay at home, was heeded.

Leading figures from large corporations, including oil giant BP, are members of an influential but almost entirely unaccountable group advising the British Museum in secretive meetings, Channel 4 News can reveal. 

How green is my valley? A key part in moving the UK to net zero is to plant trees on a massive scale. But the right trees, in the right places.

At least 20 people have been killed and tens of thousands displaced from their homes after Madagascar was hit by a second powerful storm in two weeks. 

A few months on, a Welsh coal mine has been given permission to expand and Channel 4 News has been told by the company that most of the coal will be used for traditional purposes.

Hunting is a multi-million pound industry. People pay handsomely to hunt grouse, pheasants and other game.

Even while we are still dealing with the Covid pandemic, scientists are already worrying about the next one, especially diseases which could leap from animals to humans.