and coming up at half past seven we ll have a round up of the day s action in sportsday. good evening and welcome to bbc news. police in the republic of ireland have named the ten people who were killed by an explosion at a petrol station in a village in county donegal. the victims include a 39 year old woman and her 13 year old son, and 50 year old man and his 5 year old daughter. police also confirmed that a man in his 20s remains in hospital in a critical condition. seven other people who were injured in the explosion are still being treated in hospital and remain in a stable condition. our ireland correspondent, chris page has been at the scene. this has been a day when this community has been contemplating the scale of the losses that occurred here in a split second on friday afternoon. as you could see behind me the petrol station where the explosion happened is less busy, they are now just two police vehicles there, the ambulances and fire engines have gone as the in
welcome thank you for being with us. let us start with the attack on sudbury show, we are seeing these increased attacks on urban areas as ukraine makes evermore successes in gains in the east of the country, do you think we will see this kind of thing escalating as ukraine perhaps increases its successes? this thing escalating as ukraine perhaps increases its successes? increases its successes? this has been a feature increases its successes? this has been a feature of increases its successes? this has been a feature of russia s - increases its successes? this has been a feature of russia s war i been a feature of russia s war strategy at, unfortunately, i would see a russian defeat for example after ukraine counteroffensive in the east or russia s failure to take cities in southern ukraine we see strikes on civilian areas and places desperately far from the front lines. and the ironic thing about the most recent attack is this is an area that putin only last week claim for russi
The Kremlin paved the way Tuesday to annex more of Ukraine and escalate the war by claiming that residents of a large swath overwhelmingly supported joining with Russia in stage-managed referendums the U.S. and its Western allies have dismissed as illegitimate. Pro-Moscow officials said all four occupied regions of Ukraine voted to join Russia. According to Russia-installed election officials, 93 percent of the ballots cast in the Zaporizhzhia region supported annexation, as did 87 percent in the Kherson region, 98 percent in the Luhansk region and 99 percent in Donetsk. Possibly explaining the lower favorable vote in Kherson is that Russian authorities there have faced a strong Ukrainian underground resistance movement whose members have killed Moscow-appointed officials and threatened those who considered voting.
territory. back a, major major offensive underway. how meaningful might that be? because they are moving into the donbas. and while russia had all sorts of names in ukraine they alternately scaled a lot of those back. and i ukrainians are actually into those territories and are on the russian border, ostensibly populated by russian -speaking people who are supposed to support the russian invasion of eastern ukraine. these are great headlines and inspiring headlines and the russian government was planning on having a annexation referendum in the city of kherson in september. which they have now at least temporarily or forever shelves, because of the ukrainian counter offensive. the russians have never taken all of the donbas, but they had taken basically all of the hanska new are moving towards taking all of donetsk. now we have seen in the last 24 hours over 1000 square miles of territory retaken as you just
0 to the united kingdom back to scotland. they re also talking to making buckingham palace more of an official place a business rather than a residents. the royal family does not particularly love living there by accounts that we have heard. queen elizabeth, when she became queen or when it was known that she would eventually when they become queen when her father took the throne side according to a governor s at the time, what we have to lift their forever? i don t really want to look at buckingham palace. summit because of a place of official business, and open up more to the public so that they can take tours of. it is not just a slimming down of who is visible and who is leaving this family. but the monuments and the physical structures and been part of this family for so long now. ball morrow could hold on a second, the president at the pentagon right. now he is just arriving for a lane of the wreath at the pentagon memorial. the plane flight 77 days a hit to the pentagon at 9