Найбільше кредитних коштів за цей період отримали за такими напрямами: кредитування у зоні високого воєнного ризику — 15,2 млрд грн; розвиток переробної промисловості — 11,2 млрд грн; інвестиційні проєкти — 6,4 млрд грн.

Найпомітніше зростання за сумою виданих кредитів протягом тижня зафіксовано у кредитах ЗВВР (+1,31 млрд грн). Це 29% усіх нових кредитних коштів, виданих за програмою за минулий тиждень.

Від початку чинності програми (лютий 2020 року) підприємці отримали 144,5 тис. кредитів на суму понад 504,6 млрд грн. З них у період воєнного стану — 109,7 тис. кредитів на 414,9 млрд грн.

До десятка лідерів за кількістю взятих кредитів входять чотири регіони, що належать до зон високого воєнного ризику: Дніпропетровська, Одеська, Київська, Харківська області.

Найбільші обсяги кредитування залучили підприємства в аграрному секторі, гуртовій та роздрібній торгівлі, переробній промисловості, повідомляє Мінекономіки.

By KYLIE STEVENS, SENIOR BREAKING NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA and CANDACE SUTTON, SENIOR NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA and KARLEIGH SMITH IN MELBOURNE FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Updated: 00:38 EDT, 14 April 2026

A campaigner was ‘gob-smacked’ after successfully fighting for the council to protect her village with coastal defences, only to find they don’t cover her home – which will likely be demolished.

Sophie Marple, 55, has lived in Thorpeness, Suffolk, for more than 20 years, and watched as 11 local properties had to be knocked down in January, as they were about to fall into the sea.

She fundraised and lobbied alongside fellow residents for defences, hoping to secure the future of her property and others along the coast.

Villagers themselves paid £250,000 for temporary rock bags along the beach, and East Suffolk Council announced earlier this year that it would contribute £300,000 towards further protection.

But Ms Marple was shocked to learn that the rock barrier stops just short of her and her neighbour, Meg Walker, while covering a plot of empty land.

Ms Marple told the Daily Mail: ‘It is absolutely unjust.

‘We are all facing the same erosion and the same risk so to say that we don’t count and demolition is the only option has left me gob-smacked.

‘I’m not asking for any preferential treatment – the reality is this is a national problem.

‘It is being pushed onto the homeowner. We’ve raised money for our own defences, had our own surveys carried out.

‘The council just say crack on. They haven’t got the money or the people with the expertise to give advice – the only thing they’ve done is offer to cover the cost of demolition.’

Erosion has stolen 27 metres of cliff in the past year in Thorpeness, with the fence at the back of Ms Marple’s property now just three metres from the cliff edge.

The mum-of-two rebuilt her dream home 12 years ago following a significant erosion event, during which the council and community worked together to install defences.

Ms Marple said that gave her hope the property would be protected over time, and she even convened villagers as the years went on to fight for more support.

She said: ‘Thorpeness is a very beautiful, historic and magical place.

‘There’s always a risk when you buy a house that’s sea-facing, but it was an absolute dream of mine.

‘After the erosion event, we had the hope we would be able to work together with the council again.

‘We made the decision to invest our time, energy, and emotion into building this house.’

Rock bags have been laid along around 100 metres of coastline being rapidly eroded, but Ms Marple and her neighbour’s properties do not fall within that.

The protection scheme costs £550,000 in total – a combination of £300,000 from the council’s budget and £250,000 raised by villagers and the owners of threatened homes.

Ms Marple doesn’t know how long her property will last before needing to be knocked down, but said she would be alerted by the council’s demolition firm once it had reached a ‘trigger point’.

With a staggering eight metres of coastline lost six weeks ago in a ‘shocking acceleration’, that time could be closer than ever predicted.

She said: ‘The three phases of defences are a knotted mess. If we don’t defend our road, the houses behind it and further down will be affected.

‘They’ve used the £300,000 to defend a site where six properties have been demolished.

‘We’ve all contributed in good faith to the defences and then they say “You don’t count, you should demolish.”‘

Ms Marple also explained that a storm in March had pushed shingle from the beach onto rock bags that were being stored by the council at the bottom of her cliff.

After the storm, the bags were removed – which Ms Marple said left her property ‘vulnerable’.

Around ten homes behind Ms Marple’s along North End Avenue could also be at risk if the coastline continues to erode.

Her neighbour, Meg, runs the five-bedroom seaside holiday cottage Shore Cote, built in 1892, with prices around £1,275 per week.

Ms Walker also faces demolition if the coast continues to erode, because her property will not be covered by the sea defences.

She said: ‘We do feel like we’re being treated slightly unfairly.

‘We both contributed to erosion funds ten years ago and I’ve already lost my beach. Every tide matters.

‘I tried to get Shore Cote listed building permission but I was told even though I could, it was likely going to be demolished.

‘It’s the oldest holiday home in Thorpeness and there’s very few on the beach here.

‘It’s made of wood but it’s been a very successful holiday home over the years.

‘In 1911, they had really high tides and storms, the house fell off the cliff and onto the beach.

‘They were able to roll it intact to where it is now, even back then.

‘But today, we’re being left behind.’

An East Suffolk Council spokeswoman said legislation meant it cannot carry out work to areas of known risk where the safe demolition of property is possible.

She said: ‘We have been engaging with all affected residents in the North End Avenue area, including Sophie Marple, since last spring about their erosion risk following publication of the Environment Agency’s national erosion risk maps

‘Whilst we are sympathetic to Sophie’s situation, we have a duty to use taxpayers funds responsibly and seek the best outcome possible for the maximum number of properties.

‘Extending the rock bags northwards would not be strategically, technically, environmentally or financially feasible, as an extension would cost a minimum of £300,000 in an attempt to slow erosion to only two homes, for a short period of time, where the risk is already known and plans are already in place for safe removal of properties when necessary.

‘We understand this is a distressing time for all affected residents and we are continuing to support homeowners, including Sophie Marple, to whom we have also offered support and direct financial assistance, to help safely remove her property should it become necessary.’

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Published: 15:31 EDT, 13 April 2026 | Updated: 16:33 EDT, 13 April 2026

Two brothers attacked an armed police officer in an airport brawl using a ‘high level of violence’, a court heard on Monday.

Mohammed Fahir Amaaz,21, and his elder brother Muhammad Amaad, 26, rained ‘repeated blows’ on PC Zachary Marsden as he tried to arrest Amaaz in the parking payment area at Terminal Two in Manchester airport.

Amaaz also acted ‘in a cowardly manner’ when he struck unarmed officer PC Lydia Ward by punching her in the face, breaking her nose and also hit PC Ellie Cook, an armed officer with ‘a flurry of blows’.

The fracas in July 2024 was caught on CCTV and the jury was shown the footage yesterday by prosecutor Paul Greaney KC.

The CCTV sequence showed how violence flared when the officers tried to arrest Amaaz and showed the punch that broke PC Ward’s nose.

Jurors also saw Amaaz being wrestled to the floor after aiming punches at PC Cook and a kick aimed by PC Marsden at the head of Amaaz when the defendant was on the floor.

Mr Greaney said that in response to having been assaulted, PC Marsden kicked Amaaz to the face and then brought his foot down towards the top of his head ‘in what looks like a stamping motion.’

He told the jury: ‘Those actions look rather shocking in the cold light of day, but we suggest they need to be judged in the context of the very serious level of threat posed by the defendants to an officer who was concerned that his firearm might be taken from him at an international airport.

‘In any event, those actions all occurred after the violence of the defendants. The position of the prosecution is that they are logically entirely irrelevant to the lawfulness of the conduct of Amaaz and Amaad.’

The court heard on Monday that Amaaz was found guilty at a trial last year of assaulting the two women police officers.

He was also found guilty of an assault on Qatari citizen Abdulkareem Ismaeil in a Starbucks cafe minutes before the incident in the parking payment area.

The jury heard that the brothers had gone to the airport to meet their mother on a flight from Pakistan via Qatar and ‘something had happened’ between the mother and Mr Ismaeil which had made her unhappy.

It was when the mother pointed out Mr Ismaeil in the cafe that Amaaz had confronted him and headbutted him in the face and struck further blows.

The jury heard that the assaults on PCs Cook and Ward and the alleged assault on PC Marsden happened after they tried to arrest Amaaz for the attack on Mr Ismaeil.

The jury heard that Amaaz still believes the jury in the first trial was wrong to convict him and claims he was acting in lawful self-defence.

The jury in the first trial was unable to reach a verdict on both brothers over the alleged assault on PC Marsden.

At a retrial Monday, Amaaz also claimed that he was acting in self-defence when he struck PC Marsden.

Muhammad Amaad claims he was acting in defence of his brother and both men, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, pleaded not guilty to assaulting PC Marsden, causing him actual bodily harm.

Paul Greaney KC, prosecuting, told the jury: ‘This is not a complicated case. The events were captured on CCTV and body-worn cameras of the police officers.

‘You will be able to see with your own eyes what happened. What occurred is plain to see beyond any sensible argument.

‘The defendants say the violence they used against PC Marsden was lawful because they were acting in self-defence or in defence of each other.

‘Indeed, Amaaz goes further and claims that he was acting lawfully throughout and that the jury in the first trial was wrong.

‘You have to decide whether you are sure that it may be they were acting in self-defence when they delivered repeated blows to PC Marsden.

‘Our prediction is that you will readily conclude that the defendants were not acting in lawful self-defence and that their conduct was unlawful.’

Mr Greaney told the jury that the two brothers walked from Starbucks to the pay station, a journey of just two minutes.

The three police officers went to the parking pay station to arrest Amaaz and ‘violence erupted quickly,’ he said.

The jury heard that PC Marsden and PC Cook were armed with semi-automatic Glock 17 pistols and entered the pay station area 8.28pm.

Mr Greaney said: ‘Over the course of the next 30 seconds, Amaaz delivered no fewer than 12 blows (a kick, elbow strikes and punches) to the three officers, breaking PC Ward’s nose and causing injuries to the other two.

‘Amaad delivered repeated blows with his fists to PC Marsden and, as you will see, used a high level of violence.’

Mr Greaney said the conviction of Amaaz in the first trial proved that he acted offensively and not defensively.

He added: ‘In the environment of a courtroom, it is difficult to get a sense of how seriously the officers perceived the threat posed by the two defendants to be.

‘From the body-worn camera footage, we get a real sense of how fearful the officers involved in this violence had been.’

The trial continues.

A council has been blasted for blowing half a million pounds on a cycle lane less than a mile long.

The £500,000 project in the seaside town of Gorleston, Norfolk, has been blasted for being a ‘colossal waste of money’ and drawn ire from cyclists themselves.

Locals claim the new lanes have made the street dangerously narrower and more hazardous, while retailers say the loss of parking spaces has harmed trade.

Mobility scooters have been spotted riding up and down the cycle lanes, delivery drivers regularly block them, and cyclists say they’re now forced onto the pavement to stay safe.

Resident Les West, 83, who lives on Middleton Road where the lanes have been installed, said: ‘It is a disgusting, horrendous waste of money. They have made a busy road into a dangerous one.

‘It is a colossal waste of money, and I can’t see the point in it at all.’

Sue Bowman, 53, who works at the Rose Garden florist shop on Middleton Road, said: ‘It has gone from a safe road to a very unsafe, dangerous road. It is awful.

‘I don’t like driving on it now. The lanes you drive on are too narrow, and the road is so narrow because the cycle lanes have been put in. We are still getting people parking in the cycle lanes, and people don’t know where to park.’

Liz Spires, 66, who had come to the florist with her family, said: ‘We think it is bloody stupid. Now you are lucky if you can get two cars parked.

‘We are coming to arrange funeral flowers for my late husband, and it has been a real pain.’

The project had been hailed as Norfolk County Council’s flagship project to encourage cycling.

The scheme, funded by the government’s Active Travel Fund, has seen the creation of a new cycle lane on each side of the road.

New zebra crossings have been introduced, and new reflective wands have been added to separate the road from the cycle lanes.

Since work has been completed, locals say issues have emerged with cars stopping in the cycle lanes and vehicles blocking them off while making deliveries.

Julie Hall, 64, who lives on Middleton Road and uses her bicycle, said: ‘If someone is parked on the cycle lane, you have to ride on the pavement.

‘I cycle to the James Paget to get to work, and binmen get the waste bins that are parked in the cycle lanes.’

Anthony Hollis, 64 and another bicycle user, said: ‘I think it is a lot of money for what it is. If they had widened the pavement, they wouldn’t have had to do any of this. They could have just made the pavement wider.’

Norfolk County Council told Metro in a statement: ‘As with all road improvements, the changes take time to bed in and for people to get used to them.

‘These upgrades will provide safer cycle access between South and North Gorleston, serving the local college and town amenities. We have also improved the safety of crossings for those travelling on foot.’

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.

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British travellers are fuming at new EU border checks that have left some stranded abroad due to chaotic queues so long people began ‘passing out’. 

The new Entry/Exit System (EES) requires travellers from third-party countries, including the UK, to have their fingerprints and photographs taken as they enter the Schengen area. 

Passengers travelling across Europe were hit by delays and cancellations over the weekend, with long queues at passport checks at several destinations including Geneva, Lisbon and Malta. 

Disruption continued today, with passengers waiting for passport control at Brussels Airport and Schiphol in Amsterdam taking to social media to report delays of up to two hours.

One passenger in Amsterdam described ‘elderly people and parents with toddlers’ waiting in line for passport gates, ‘hardly any’ of which were open. The airport’s website confirmed there were ‘long delays’. 

It comes after airline passengers were left vomiting and passing out after becoming stranded in Milan last night.

Around 100 easyJet customers were abandoned at Linate airport while waiting to board a flight to Manchester on Sunday with three-hour queues plaguing travellers as new EU border rules come into force. 

EasyJet said the situation was ‘outside of our control’ and issues with the EU’s new border scheme had caused the delays, adding that the hold-ups were ‘unacceptable’. 

Aviation expert Sally Gethin said the rollout of EES ‘wasn’t going well’. 

‘It’s proving a bumpy ride and a massive headache for travellers,’ she told the Daily Mail. 

‘This is going to rumble on for a few weeks and even when it’s fully bedded down there could be some sporadic issues. 

‘But you can expect that. There are always teething problems when new technology is rolled out. 

‘When you bring into the mix all this bureaucracy and people having to implement it you’re always going to have issues. It’s also incredibly ambitious and across so many countries.’

Ms Gethin said many flyers were ‘confused’ about the scheme and believes the UK government could have done more to educate them. 

‘The UK government has come in for criticism for not raising enough awareness,’ she said. 

‘To the average person travelling it’s quite confusing. You’re going on holiday so will be a bit stressed already 

‘You’re also having frequent flyers who thought they would only have to input their personal data once but are now having to do it multiple times.’

The Mail understands the airline delayed last night’s easyJet flight from Milan by 52 minutes to allow customers extra time but, with the crew approaching the end of their safety-regulated working hours, the flight was forced to head off half empty.

The saga left customers scrambling for alternative means of getting home with some only discovering they had missed their flight once it had left without them. 

One passenger travelling with her boyfriend said only 30 people made it onto the plane, leaving 100 stranded at the airport. 

Kiera, 17, told the BBC: ‘We got here at 7.30am for our flight at 11am so were super early.

‘We got to Border Control and it was a massive queue of people. I wasn’t feeling great anyway because I think I’d got food poisoning.

‘At about 10.50am they brought some water over for people, and when we got to the front of the queue someone asked us if we were going to Manchester, and told us our flight had just gone.’  

The student added she and her boyfriend were in the middle of a 20-hour wait for another flight, leaving today and costing her mother £520.

And to make matters worse, the rearranged flight is set to land at Gatwick instead of Manchester. 

Kiera said easyJet had only offered £12.25 in compensation, roughly the price of a sandwich at the airport. 

Meanwhile, Vicky Chapman, 26, from Wirral, was left abandoned in the Italian city along with her son Fredrik, five, her partner Adam Hoijord, mother Lynne Chapman and brother Dan Chapman.

She told Liverpool Echo:  ‘We got to the airport with more than enough time, and got to our gate at 9.30am, but we were totally refused entry through passport control. 

‘We were then told that we are a ‘no show’ on our flight because we did not get to the gate on time, even though passport control had issues and they would not let us through.

‘We were passed from pillar to post for three hours and no-one helped us. It was so hot in the airport, people were vomiting, people were almost passing out. We’re being told that Tuesday is the earliest we can get back, and that we have to fly to Gatwick. We’ve had to pay out of pocket for an Airbnb.’

Adam Lomas, 33, was holidaying in Milan with his wife Katy, 33, and their baby daughter when they got stranded. 

He said he attempted to contact the airline but could not get through to a human operator – only chatbots who ‘hung up’ on him after ‘five or 10 minutes’ because there were ‘audio issues and they couldn’t hear me’.  

The father said his family were now trying to a find a hotel and book new flights back to London where they would then have to get the two-and-a-half-hour train to Manchester.  

He added that easyJet and the airport had ‘spent hours arguing with each other about who is to blame’. 

The airline said it informed customers of the new system and advised them to check their travel documents, allow extra time at airports, be ready for biometric checks, and factor in extra waiting time when planning onward travel. 

Travellers are also being encouraged to arrive early, clear security as soon as possible and head to the gate when called.

An easyJet spokesperson told the Daily Mail: ‘We are aware that some passengers departing from Milan Linate today experienced longer than usual waiting times at passport control and we advised customers due to fly to allow additional time to make their way through the airport.

‘We have been doing all possible to minimise the impact of the airport queues, holding flights to allow customers extra time and providing free flight transfers for any customers who may have missed their flight including EJU5420 to Manchester.

‘We continue to urge border authorities to ensure they make full and effective use of the permitted flexibilities for as long as needed while EES is implemented, to avoid these unacceptable border delays for our customers.

‘While this is outside of our control, we are sorry for any inconvenience caused.’

It comes after tourists reported chaotic scenes and lengthy delays at airports across Europe earlier this week as the new digital border controls came into effect – with exasperated travellers saying they had been forced to wait ‘for hours’ at terminals, including in Lisbon, Milan and Paris, to clear immigration.

Two travellers at Lisbon airport were among those facing a long wait at passport control. 

Ex-UK and EU diplomat Rupert Joy said the new system was in disarray in the Portuguese capital’s major transport hub.  

He wrote on social media platform X: ‘Complete chaos at Lisbon airport. Loads of people missing flights despite arriving hours in advance because of insanely long queues to passport control. 

‘No one seems to be in control or to have any idea what to do.’

Another traveller said he had experienced a similar scenario, writing: ‘Having the machines at the start of the queue before going through passport control just caused a massive queue leaving Lisbon.’ 

In Paris, a parent travelling with a child, believed to be at Charles de Gaulle airport wrote: ‘Absolutely ridiculous queue for passport control. EU passport with a child under 12, I’ve been queuing for over two hours and still there’s at least a hundred people ahead of me.’

At Milan’s Malpensa airport, it was a similar scenario. 

‘Two hours after landing and I’m still an hour from clearing passport control. Good job. Good try,’ another delayed passenger fumed.

Controversial Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary this month accused the EU of punishing British holidaymakers over Brexit by subjecting them to hours-long passport control queues.

The chief executive, who backed Remain in the referendum, claimed the bloc was ‘undoubtedly’ forcing Britons to endure longer waits at airports as payback for leaving the EU in 2020.

UK holidaymakers jetting off to Europe have been warned of up to four-hour delays at airports as countries ramp up the deployment of a new border system. 

Mr O’Leary said there had been ‘significant disruption’ at passport control since the new system was first introduced in October last year.

The system is being introduced in stages, with full operation expected from April, but has already caused backlogs and increased waiting times for passengers.

‘We are beginning to see significant disruption. That’s the next big issue. And EES has just been a s*** show and a shambles,’ the Ryanair CEO told The Times.

The Southport attack ‘would not have occurred’ if the killer’s parents had flagged concerns about his increasingly violent behaviour, a report into the atrocity said today.

In a series of damning conclusions, Sir Adrian Fulford, the High Court judge overseeing the public inquiry into the atrocity, said Axel Rudakubana’s mother and father obstructed officials, were ‘too ready’ to excuse their son’s actions and failed to stand up to his behaviour or set any boundaries.

Warning signs about the risk posed by the 17-year-old were repeatedly flagged to authorities in the weeks and years before he murdered three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in the Merseyside seaside town, in July 2024.

But in his report, published today, Sir Adrian said catastrophic failures by police, social services, mental health teams, youth justice services and other agencies left him free to kill with ‘chilling brutality’.

The atrocity did not come as a ‘bolt out of the blue’, rather Rudakubana’s risk had been ‘signposted’ to the authorities for years and they ‘could and should have prevented’ him from carrying out his murder spree.

Officials also used Rudakubana’s diagnosis of autism to excuse his behaviour and failed to recognise that, in truth, the condition heightened, not lessened the risk he posed, Sir Adrian said.

Rudakubana was just 17 when he murdered Bebe King, six, Elsie Stancombe, seven, and Alice Aguiar, nine, at a holiday club at the start of the summer holidays.

He was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum 52 years behind bars after admitting murder in January last year.

In his 700-page report, Sir Adrian, chairman of the public inquiry examining how the attack was allowed to happen, also said Rudakubana’s parents, Alphonse Rudakubana and Laetitia Muzayire, must also bear responsibility.

They knew, at least a week before the attack, that he had amassed a small arsenal of ‘deadly weapons’ in his bedroom, but did nothing.

Sir Adrian said: ‘If AR’s parents had done what they morally ought to have done, AR would not have been at liberty to conduct the attack and it would not therefore have occurred.’

Instead of taking responsibility for Rudakubana’s case, agencies passed him around on a ‘merry-go-round’ of referrals, assessments and handovers.

‘AR’s trajectory towards grave violence was signposted repeatedly and unambiguously,’ the judge said. 

‘Yet the systems and agencies responsible for safeguarding the public did not act with the cohesion, urgency or clarity required.’

He added: ‘I have no doubt that if appropriate procedures had been in place and if sensible steps had been taken by the agencies and AR’s parents, this dreadful event would not have happened.

‘It could have been and it should have been prevented. History simply would have taken a different course.’

The judge said that ‘over a long period of time’, Rudakubana had become ‘an aggressive, near-total recluse, who bullied and threatened his family and unashamedly lied to officials’.

He managed to order and hoard an arsenal of weapons, including knives, crossbows, bows and arrows, machetes, sledgehammers, as well as the items needed for making multiple Molotov cocktails and ingredients necessary for manufacturing the highly lethal poison, ricin.

But Sir Adrian said that what happened on July 24, 2024, was not a ‘bolt of lightning out of a clear blue sky’.

Rather, Rudakubana’s dangerousness had ‘been clearly, repeatedly and unambiguously signposted over many years’.

On more than one occasion officials who came into contact with him expressed a fear that he would go on to ‘harm and kill’.

But, despite this, Sir Adrian said no ‘coordinated or effective action’ was taken.

He said: ‘One of the most striking conclusions… is the sheer number of missed opportunities over many years to intervene meaningfully, which directly contributed to the failure to avert this disaster.

‘Numerous systems that should have provided oversight, assessment and protection were ineffective or inadequately used. Some failed outright. The consequences were catastrophic.’

Rudakubana was known to the state from October 2019, when the then 13-year-old made several calls to Childline admitting to taking a kitchen knife into school on 10 occasions because he claimed he was being bullied.

Police were called and he was expelled but two months later, he returned, armed with a hockey stick and attacked another pupil, breaking their wrist.

He was sent to a special school, who made three referrals to the Government’s de-radicalisation programme, Prevent, over concerns about what he was consuming online – he had viewed web pages about school shootings in America, made comments about the conflict between Israel and Palestine and also asked to see an image of a severed head.

Rudakubana also had repeated referrals to mental health teams.

But he was reluctant to engage with officials and the most ‘striking missed opportunity,’ Sir Adrian said, came in March 2022, when he went missing from home and was found with a knife on a bus, telling police he wanted to stab someone. He also admitted to thinking about using poison. 

Sir Adrian said that, if officers had had ‘a remotely adequate understanding of AR’s risk history’ he would likely have been arrested and ‘critical information’ about the ricin seeds he had already bought and the terrorist material downloaded on his computer discovered during a search of his home. 

Instead he was treated as a ‘vulnerable’ person and allowed home with only a referral to social services and mental health teams.

Sir Adrian’s report comes after he heard nine weeks of often harrowing ‘phase one’ evidence from victims, survivors, first responders and organisations who interacted with Rudakubana in the lead up to the attack.

Hearings for ‘phase two’, which is expected to consider how agencies address the risk posed by young people fixated on committing acts of extreme violence more generally, are due to begin later this year.

The full video of Meghan Markle ushering Sentebale’s chief away from her husband – alleged to have started the row between Prince Harry and Sophie Chandauka now heading for the libel courts – has been released for the first time today.

Sentebale is facing scrutiny from England’s Charity Commission over its decision to sue the Duke of Sussex for defamation.

The watchdog is asking trustees if taking Harry to the High Court ‘furthers its purposes’ while a source close to the Duke has said: ‘Whether they’re using external or internal funds for the case, that money could still be used to support the charity’s work’.

Harry is being sued by the charity he founded in honour of his late mother, Princess Diana, following a high-profile dispute with its chairman Ms Chandauka. 

The libel and slander lawsuit, against both the Duke of Sussex and his friend and former royal equerry Mark Dyer, was launched on Friday at the High Court.

An awkward exchange between Ms Chandauka and Meghan at a Miami charity polo event in aid of Sentebale in April 2024, where Meghan asked her to move away from Harry, is said to have started the row. 

And today Hello! magazine has released the full excruciating video for the first time.

Meghan, who Dr Chandauka claimed had not initially been due to attend, arrived with her tennis legend friend Serena Williams.

The new Hello! clip shows Meghan being helped on to a trailer to present a polo trophy to her British husband, giving him an affectionate kiss before giving him the silverware.

Dr Sophie Chandauka then arrives on stage.

But the Duchess of Sussex then forced her to duck under the trophy, away from her husband.

Dr Sophie smiled politely and complied with the request.

Nothing was said at the time but a year later Ms Chandauka accused Meghan of having caused ‘disruption’ on a very crowded stage after turning up at short notice.

Dr Chandauka claimed that, prior to the charity polo event, Meghan confirmed she would not be attending – only to turn up with Serena.

Speaking to Sky News’ Trevor Phillips, Dr Chandauka recalled: ‘We would have been really excited had we known ahead of time [Meghan was coming], but we didn’t.

‘And so the choreography went badly on stage because we had too many people on stage. The international press captured this, and there was a lot of talk about the Duchess and the choreography on stage and whether she should have been there and her treatment of me.

‘Prince Harry asked me to issue some sort of a statement in support of the Duchess, and I said I wouldn’t.

‘Not because I didn’t care about the Duchess, but because I knew what would happen if I did so, number one. And number two, because we cannot be an extension of the Sussexes.’

The footage of Meghan and Dr Chandauka with Harry at the Royal Salute Polo Challenge in Miami has been watched millions of times online.

In the footage Dr Chandauka, who was stood on the Duke’s right, was asked twice by Meghan to move to her left side away from Harry, as he kept his arm around his wife.

Others therefore had to shuffle around them to find a place, with Dr Chandauka awkwardly having to duck under the trophy to get into the position Meghan was asking her to stand in.

Dr Chandauka then said something inaudible to her and Meghan appeared to give Harry a look.

Dr Chandauka later cited the video as she accused the duke of being ‘involved’ in a ‘cover-up’ of an investigation about bullying, harassment and misogyny at the organisation and said the ‘toxicity’ of his ‘brand’ had impacted the charity.

She claimed that before the polo event in Miami, Harry insisted on bringing his Netflix camera crew along.

‘About a month before the event was about to take place, Prince Harry called the team and said, ‘I’m doing a Netflix show, and I would love to bring a camera crew so that I can include some footage in this show’,’ she said last year.

‘And so the team called me and told me, ‘Oh, Prince Harry’s made this request, so we’re doing the things’.

‘I said, ‘you can’t be doing the things without seeking consent from the property owners, the sponsors, all the guests. Nobody signed up to being on a Netflix show’.’

She added: ‘We come up with draft agreements and of course, the venue owner says this is now a commercial undertaking.

‘So here are my terms. We couldn’t afford it. So now we lost the venue.’

The Charity Commission has said it has been in contact with Sentebale’s trustees.

The watchdog said it learned of the charity’s intention to sue the Duke of Sussex in February and is seeking to understand from trustees how the legal action would ‘further their charity’s purposes’. 

Harry and his friend and former trustee, Mark Dyer, are being sued in the High Court for ‘defamation — libel and slander’.

Mr Dyer is a former trustee of the charity who has long acted as a mentor and ‘second father’ figure to Harry. The duke was an usher at his wedding in Wales in 2024.

The lawsuit comes after Harry dramatically quit the charity’s board last year following a bitter public feud with Dr Chandauka, whose leadership he described as ‘untenable’.

The charity’s trustees said they had been ‘deeply moved’ by the generosity of donors who have ‘stood firm alongside them’. 

They said the legal action was being paid for ‘entirely by external funding’ and none of the charity’s money was being used.

They added: ‘The board and executive director trust that those who believe in Sentebale’s mission will understand why this legal action, while difficult, was necessary and important, and will continue to stand with us as we focus on the work ahead.’

Sentebale, which means ‘forget-me-not’ in the language of Lesotho, southern Africa, was co-founded by the duke in 2006 to help young people with HIV and Aids in Lesotho and Botswana. It has faced a funding crisis since his departure a year ago.

The row with Dr Chandauka began in 2024 when the Sentebale board challenged her over a £400,000 bill for consultants they said had brought little return.

She was asked to step down but instead complained to the Charity Commission, alleging bullying, misogyny and racism. She accused the duke of trying to ‘eject’ her through ‘bullying’ and ‘harassment’, which he denied.

After a probe, the commission found no evidence of racism or bullying, but said there had been weak governance and criticised all parties for allowing an internal dispute to become public.

In March last year, trustees – including the duke and Mr Dyer – resigned en masse. Harry, 41, and his co-founder, Prince Seeiso of Lesotho, resigned as patrons.

The duke and Mr Dyer ‘categorically reject these offensive and damaging claims’, a spokesman for the pair said.

Donald Trump trashed Pope Leo on Sunday after repeated criticism of the Iran War from the American-born pontiff.

Trump was exiting Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews when he aired a litany of grievances against the head of the Catholic Church.

‘I don’t think he’s doing a very good job. He likes crime I guess,’ Trump told reporters. 

‘We don’t like a pope who says it’s ok to have a nuclear weapon. We don’t want a pope that says crime is ok. I am not a fan of Pope Leo.’ 

Trump’s comments came just moments after a Truth Social post that slammed Pope Leo for meeting with Barack Obama’s campaign manager David Axelrod. 

‘Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social Sunday night. 

The President then referenced Leo’s brother Louis, who has said he’s a supporter of Trump and was feted at the White House last year. 

‘I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn’t!’

Trump then criticized Pope Leo again for suggesting he wanted Iran to have a nuclear weapon. Denuclearization of Iran is one of Trump’s main reasons for striking Tehran.

‘I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon,’ Trump said. 

‘I don’t want a Pope who thinks it’s terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country.’

The President went deeper on his opposition to Pope Leo and the church’s stance on several issues including COVID lockdowns.  

‘He talks about ‘fear’ of the Trump Administration, but doesn’t mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart,’ Trump wrote.

The President then claimed that Pope Leo ‘criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do.’

Trump then went on to even suggest that he is the only reason that Pope Leo became the first American leader of the Catholic Church.

‘Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise. He wasn’t on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump. If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican.’

Trump continued to rip Pope Leo for his meeting with Axelrod, who the President called an ‘Obama sympathizer’ and ‘a LOSER from the Left, who is one of those who wanted churchgoers and clerics to be arrested.’ 

‘Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It’s hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it’s hurting the Catholic Church!’ 

It was an extraordinary broadside against the global leader of the Catholic Church, exacerbating a feud that began over the war in Iran. 

Trump then posted what appeared to be an AI drawing of himself as Jesus Christ healing a sick person, followed by a photoshop of what it would look like if Trump Tower were built on the moon.  

The post followed Leo having denounced over the weekend the ‘delusion of omnipotence’ that is fueling the US-Israel war in Iran and demanded political leaders stop and negotiate peace. 

Leo presided over an evening prayer service in St. Peter’s Basilica on the same day the United States and Iran began face-to-face negotiations in Pakistan during a fragile ceasefire. 

The US-born pope didn’t mention the United States or Trump by name in his prayer. 

But Leo’s tone and message appeared directed at Trump and US officials, who have boasted of US military superiority and justified the war in religious terms.

It came after the pontiff seemed to use his first Easter Sunday address to send a message to Trump as he urged ‘let those who have weapons lay them down’. 

The pope, who has strongly denounced Trump’s war in Iran, deplored to the thousands gathered in St Peter’s Square that people ‘are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it and becoming indifferent’.

Speaking from the Vatican balcony, the first US-born pope exclaimed: ‘Let those who have weapons lay them down!

‘Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force but by dialogue.’

Leo, 70, did not specify a conflict within his message, known as the Urbi et Orbi blessing – translated as ‘to the city and the world’. 

The papal address was unusually short and lasted around 15 minutes. It is normally around double the length in time.

Leo also reflected on the biblical story of Easter – in which Jesus rises from the dead three days after peacefully accepting his death by crucifixion – to highlight the ‘entirely nonviolent’ nature of Christ. 

He added the peace Jesus gives ‘is not merely the silence of weapons’, and urged: ‘On this day of celebration, let us abandon every desire for conflict, domination and power, and implore the Lord to grant his peace to a world ravaged by wars.’

Before the ceasefire, when Trump warned of mass strikes against Iranian power plants and other infrastructure and that ‘an entire civilization will die tonight,’ Leo described such sentiments as ‘truly unacceptable.’ 

Leo is scheduled to leave Monday for an 11-day trip to Africa.

Leo noted there is a ‘globalization of indifference’, including to the ‘deaths of thousands of people’, the ‘repercussions of hatred’ and the ‘social and economic repercussions’ wars produce. 

The pontiff continued: ‘The cross of Christ always reminds us of the suffering and pain that surround death and the agony it entails. 

‘We are all afraid of death and out of fear, we turn away preferring not to look. We cannot continue to be indifferent. We cannot resign ourselves to evil.’

Leo’s Easter Sunday address follows his public cries calling for the end of global conflicts, including a significant step up in his criticism of the Iran war.

Popes do not typically mention world leaders by name, yet an exception was made last week when he publicly referred to Trump. 

He told reporters on Tuesday: ‘I’m told that President Trump has recently stated that he would like to end the war…I hope he is looking for an off-ramp.’

Leo, who was born in Chicago, added: ‘We constantly make the call for peace but unfortunately, many people want to promote hatred, violence and war.’

His comments contradicted those made by the US secretary Pete Hegseth – who deemed the Iran war as a holy one. 

While in prayer last week, Hegseth asked God for ‘overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy’. 

He added: ‘Let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation.’ 

In what seems to be retaliation the Pope said at St Peter’s on Palm Sunday, God ‘does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them’.

Turning to the Bible, he said: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.’ 

The seemingly back-and-forth row between the Trump administration and Pope Leo XIV started last year. 

Before he was elected in May last year, Leo scrutinised JD Vance’s claims that the Bible justified caring for one’s family before migrants. 

Following an invite by the US vice-president to the US for Independence Day on July 4 this year, the Pope said he will instead spend the day visiting Lampedusa – an Italian island where migrants land after sailing from Africa. 

This year marks Leo’s first Easter as Pope after the death of Pope Francis, aged 88, on Easter Monday last year. 

The Urbi et Orbi is the most solemn form of blessing in the Catholic Church, reserved for occasions including Easter and Christmas. 

In the 2024 election, Trump won 55 percent of Catholic voters, according to AP VoteCast, an extensive survey of the electorate. 

But Trump’s administration also has close ties to conservative evangelical Protestant leaders and has claimed heavenly endorsement for the war on Iran.