UK asks EU for Brexit delay until 30 June

The UK prime minister Theresa May has written to the EU council president Donald Tusk asking for another extension. Also on the programme: More demonstrations in Algeria - one protestor tells us they'll settle for nothing less than departure of the entire government; and why a Japanese spacecraft is blowing a hole in a distant asteroid.

(Photo: Prime Minster Theresa May leaves her official London residence in London. Credit: EPA-EFE/NEIL HALL)