this report. distant artillery fire the situation in soledar depends on who you ask. it s under control as of this morning according to this ukrainian commander. they will never break us, says his injured comrade. we are winning. but if you ask these two, wagner are clearing the city, they say. russian, yes, but not from the regular army. they re from a private military group called wagner, a network of mercenaries who do a lot of russia s fighting. its boss, yevgeny prigozhin, has recently recruited convicts from russianjails, and they ve been spearheading the attack on soledar, claiming to now be in full control. we chat to one ukrainian soldier on the front to see if that s the case. don t believe russian propaganda. it s not true. bakhmut and soledar have ukrainian control. kyiv has described the battle for soledar and bakhmut as the bloodiest scenario yet. and that s all we can say with real certainty. small amounts of territory are being fiercely fought over and t
you too. thanks to you at home for being here. we have breaking news tonight, in the investigation into trump s handling of top secret classified government records that wound up at the florida beach club. and the special stay of the special master ruling, judge cannon ruled that she will appoint a special master, an independent third party to review the 11,000 seized records that the fbi retrieved from trump s lome 40 days ago, and in response, the justice department be grudgingly said okay, go ahead and appoint the special master but please exclude the roughly 100 classified documents seized from mar-a-lago because we need to continue the criminal investigation of the classified documents due to special national security interests. also aal second intelligence assessment into the potential risks and harms that may have been caused byat having those t secret classified documents hanging out at trump s club, the justice department argued that thatst assessment could not c
been swept into the sea. violent anti government protests have continued in iran. police have arrested more than 700 people and at least 35 people have been killed. the protests were triggered by the death in custody of a young woman who d been detained for breaching rules on dress code. coming up at 6 o clock, breakfast with ben thompson and victoria fritz. but first on bbc news, the media show. hello. the queen s funeral was the culmination of days of coverage across the british media. the new culture secretary called the bbc s efforts phenomenal and spot on . so, did the media get the tone right? were a range of views about the monarchy represented? and amid the pageantry and commentary, was there room forjournalism? i m joined by marcus ryder, who s head of external consultancies in the lenny henry centre for media diversity, baroness stowell, who s conservative chair of the house of lords communication and digital select committee, lord vaizey, a former culture secret
storms across parts of the uk sunday night and into the early part of next week. the ground is so dry that it could cause flooding issues and there is no guarantee everyone will see it. after a very warm day on sunday, the chance of some storms beyond but it will start to feel cooler by day. beyond but it will start to feel cooler by day- beyond but it will start to feel cooler by day. beyond but it will start to feel coolerb da. ., ~ ~ cooler by day. thank you, matt. and that is the bbc cooler by day. thank you, matt. and that is the bbc news cooler by day. thank you, matt. and that is the bbc news at cooler by day. thank you, matt. and that is the bbc news at six - cooler by day. thank you, matt. and that is the bbc news at six on - that is the bbc news at six on thursday the 11th of august. you can keep up with all the updates on the bbc website. from the team it is goodbye and now it is time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where y