including addressing the threat posed by the democratic people s republic of korea. warnings from doctors that monkeypox could have a massive impact on access to sexual health services. australia goes to the polls in an election pitting two political veterans for the country s top job. and could this be the first of a record breaking heatwave across europe? hello and welcome if you are watching here in the uk or around the world. relations were already difficult after finland applied tojoin nato prompted by the war in ukraine. now moscow has taken action against its neighbour over energy supplies. russia s energy giant, gazprom has switched off gas deliveries it says finland is refusing to comply with a demand that it pay for energy in roubles. meanwhile, the british foreign secretary has said she wants to see ukraine s neighbour moldova armed with nato standard military equipment, to guard it against potential russian aggression. in ukraine itself, russian forces are int
engagement and working together to take on challenges of regional security including addressing the threat posed by the democratic people s republic of korea. as monkeypox spreads worldwide, uk doctors say it could have a massive impact on access to sexual health services. polls close in parts of australia as two political veterans battle it out for the country s top job. and could this be the first of record breaking heatwaves across europe? hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. relations were already difficult after finland applied to join nato, prompted by the war in ukraine. now moscow has taken action against its neighbour over energy supplies. russia s energy giant, gazprom has switched off gas deliveries it says finland is refusing to comply with a demand that it pay for energy in roubles. meanwhile, the british foreign secretary has said she wants to see ukraine s neighbour moldova armed with nato standard military equipment to guard
to sexual health services. polls close in parts of australia as two political veterans battle it out for the country s top job. and could this be the first of record breaking heatwaves across europe? hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. to australia, where polls have closed in the country s first election since 2019. it sees prime minister scott morrison go up against one of the country s longest serving politicians, labor leader anthony albanese. more than 17 million people were enrolled to vote which is compulsory for over 18s. either party will need to win at least 76 of the 151 seats in the house of representatives where the prime minister sits to form a majority government. let s take a closer look at the two main candidates. scott morrison has been the prime minister since 2018. he has been taking credit for adopting a tough closed borders approach to covid 19, which helped australia achieve one of the lowest death rates globally. an
in the coming days, weeks, months, even elsewhere in the conflict, we have reports of increased shelling in the donbas. this is the eastern region where the ukrainians are holding out or defending in trenches against russian advances. we ve got reports of continued ukrainian counter offenses around kharkiv, the city in the north that they ve recently repelled the russians from. and finally, reports of ukrainian shells destroying an alcohol factory inside russian territory, killing one man, a van driver. and we are seeing increasingly these instances of the war finding itself onto russian territory, something the people there were not really expecting and don t seem to be particularly comfortable with. as we re reporting, russia s energy giant, gazprom has witched off gas deliveries to finland for refusing to comply with a demand that it pay for energy in roubles. i spoke to amelinda lindberg from the stockholm environment institute she told us how this would affect the cost of living i
elsewhere in the conflict we have reports of increased shelling in the donbas, the eastern region where the ukrainians are holding out and defending in trenches against russian advances. we have reports of ukrainian counteroffensive near pat cave and finally reports of ukrainian shells this destroying an alcohol factory in russian territory. we are seeing increasing incidences of russian of the war finding itself on russian territory, something people did not seem to be expecting or finding themselves comfortable with. as we heard, russia s energy giant, gazprom has witched off gas deliveries to finland for refusing to comply with a demand that it pay for energy in roubles. to tell us more, we are joined by amelinda lindberg a research fellow at the stockholm environment institute. thank you forjoining us today. the