Iran and Saudi-Arabia to renew ties

Our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner explains why longtime foes Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations after seven years and will also activate co-operations deals, and hold talks on how to further strengthen their ties.

Britain will increase its payments to France to stop illegal migration in boats across the Channel - including funding for a new detention centre to remove people from the French coast. It comes after the UK announced new legislation to reduce people arriving in small boats. We look at how the UK's approach compares to migration policies elsewhere in Europe and in the US.

We find out about a cartel in Mexico that has apologised for kidnapping four US citizens last week, killing two of them, and has turned over the men it says are responsible.

We hear about the attack in Germany at a Jehovah's Witness meeting hall in Hamburg. Seven people were killed.

(Photo: Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission, Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, and Minister of State and national security adviser of Saudi Arabia Musaad bin Mohammed Al Aiban pose for pictures during a meeting in Beijing, China March 10, 2023. Credit: China Daily via REUTERS)