Evening briefing: Today's essential headlines

       Migrant flights | Tens of thousands of illegal Channel migrants could be taken to Rwanda, Boris Johnson has announced, as he admitted the new plan will be challenged in the courts. Speaking in Kent, the Prime Minister said anyone entering the UK illegally or who had arrived since January 1 could now be relocated to Rwanda where they could be resettled. Read on for details while Camilla Turner goes inside the Rwanda hostel where Channel migrants will be kept for processing.

       Imran Ahmad Khan | Disgraced MP vows to resign after conviction NHS response | Stroke victims face hour-long wait for an ambulance Married GP struck off | Sex-for-sleeping-tablets affair with patient, 22 Easter break | Check luggage in a day early, Stansted tells passengers Royals | Queen expected to miss Easter Sunday service in Windsor The big story: British fighter in Ukraine captured

       Russian forces claim to have captured a British man who fought against them in the besieged city of Mariupol.

       Aiden Aslin, who joined Ukraine’s military as a marine in 2018, appears to have been photographed restrained in handcuffs after surrendering to Russian troops.

       The man shows signs of being badly beaten in the image, which was posted by a pro-Russian Twitter account.

       The caption read: "Aiden Aslin. Britain, Nottingham.

       An English mercenary who fought on the side of the Nazis in Mariupol. Many lost it, but we found it.

       An interesting interview is coming soon." A friend of Mr Aslin told the Telegraph the picture does look like him and his distinctive tattoos can be seen.

       Watch him being interviewed by the Telegraph earlier in the Ukraine war.

       If there were any need for a reminder of the horrors of the conflict, Danielle Sheridan tells the story of Andrii Dereko.

       He had to stop his inconsolable wife from opening the coffin containing their mutilated daughter after the 23-year-old's "horrific" death at the hands of Russian torturers.

       It comes as Russia has warned that there can be "no more talk of a nuclear-free Baltic" if Sweden and Finland join Nato.

       Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said today that if the two nations were to join the alliance then the "balance must be restored" and Russia would have to strengthen its land, naval and air forces in the region.

       It comes a day after reports indicated that Sweden had already decided to join Nato, and Finland said a decision on whether to join would likely come "within weeks".

       Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has taunted Europe for its inability to wean itself off Russian gas as he said the Kremlin was working to re-direct energy supplies eastwards.

       Russian ship damaged

       The bravado from the Kremlin comes after the county's ministry of defence admitted the flagship of Russia's fleet in the Black Sea was evacuated overnight after a fire caused munitions on board to explode.

       The terse announcement came a few hours after the governor of Ukraine's Odesa region announced that the ship had been hit by two Neptune anti-ship missiles fired by Ukrainian forces.

       Read why the Moskva was so strategic for the Russians and how Moscow's fleet in the region is far more exposed without it.

       Ukrainian forces have been outmanned and outgunned by Russia since the Feb 24 invasion but here is a round up of the country's military achievements to date.

       Today, Moscow accused Ukraine of conducting a helicopter attack in Russia.

       Pro-Ukrainian pranksters

       Over in the US, the Russian embassy in Washington DC has a fa？ade that is mostly large, flat and white.

       It is a design that, however accidentally, gives the building some resemblance to a projector screen.

       That is exactly how it has been used by pro-Ukrainian pranksters.

       A video uploaded to social media today shows Boris Nemtsov Plaza, home of the embassy.

       Watch the comical game of cat and mouse as Russians fail to thwart the image of the Ukrainian flag being beamed onto the embassy.

       Comment and analysis Nigel Farage | Until Brexit is complete, UK won't solve Channel crisis Sam Ashworth-Hayes | Boris Johnson will survive but should he? Matthew Lynn | Sunak must tell Bank of England to start doing its job Con Coughlin | The West is better off without 'Taliban Khan' Jan Masters | Please save me from the Christmas-ification of Easter Around the world: Woman tried to escape relationship

       Murdered British woman Caroline Crouch was trying to escape an abusive relationship with her Greek husband in the months before she was killed, telling a therapist that she was "suffocating", a court in Athens has heard. Ms Crouch, who was born in Liverpool but grew up on the Aegean island of Alonissos, told a therapist that her husband, Babis Anagnostopoulos, 33, was manipulative and controlling. The helicopter pilot confessed to killing his 20-year-old wife at their house outside Athens in May last year but said it was done in a fit of rage because he was afraid that she was about to leave him. Read how he only confessed after initially concocting an elaborate story involving three burglars.

       Thursday big-read

       Revealed: 'Secret society' of tennis umpires living under a 'rule of fear', power abuses and sexual favours

       An exclusive Telegraph investigation has exposed allegations of exploitation going on for decades which have been kept secret

       Read the full story

       Sport briefing: Referee 'to blame for Atletico madness'

       The overspilling tensions during Manchester City's clash with Atletico Madrid have been a huge talking point. Among the flashpoints, Stefan Savic pulled Jack Grealish's hair and also headbutted Raheem Sterling, yet managed to stay on the pitch. Keith Hackett says referee Daniel Siebert lost control and is to blame for the madness. Yet one person who relished the clash was Jamie Carragher, who believes Diego Simeone's snarling belligerence is pure box office. Meanwhile, the brains behind the state of the art Tottenham Hotspur Stadium have been handed the responsibility by Manchester United of redeveloping Old Trafford. Elsewhere, in Formula One, Max Verstappen has been slapped down by the FIA for describing the Aston Martin safety car as a "turtle".

       Editor's choice 10pm the norm | The curious reason why the Spanish eat so absurdly late Is ageism to blame? | 'I've sent out 150 job applications without getting an interview' Exclusive new tour | Why we're opening up our stately home to paying guests Business briefing: Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter

       Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter in a deal that would value the social network at about $43bn (￡33bn). The world's richest person has offered $54.20 a share for the company, saying: "I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe." It comes the week after the SpaceX and Tesla chief executive emerged as Twitter's biggest shareholder and days after he ditched plans to join its board, which would have capped his shareholding and prevented a takeover. Read what he wrote in a letter to Twitter's chairman. In Britain, banks have warned of a surge in homeowners unable to repay their mortgage on time as they begin to cut back on lending amid cost-of-living fears.

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       Operation Mincemeat | Tricking the Nazis into a troop withdrawal from Sicily – just before the Allies mounted the largest amphibious invasion there in history – needed one corpse, planted to save thousands, and an awful lot of head-scratching. This infamous ruse is retold in John Madden's squarely watchable Operation Mincemeat, a cram-it-all-in adaptation of Ben Macintyre's 2010 history book of the same name, which knuckles down to its task with sleeves rolled, upper lips stiffened, and vast sheaves of exposition to whip through. Watch this businesslike account of one the most outrageous military cons ever in cinemas now.

       Three things for you Watch | Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, BritBox, plus tonight's TV Theatre | Sex and drugs create a true Scandal at Mayerling Play | Telegraph Puzzles featuring today's crossword and sudoku And finally... for this evening's downtime

       Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted | A new documentary on Britbox of Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson portrays him as a bad husband and a distant father - but what of his creative genius? Ed Power reviews how the programme is obsessed with Anderson's private troubles, losing sight of the miracles he worked on screen.

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