advancing on the battlefield. we ll have all the latest developments. day two of prince harry in court. he says he found it suspicious, that difficult conversations between him and an ex girlfriend appeared in stories in the daily mirror. the uk prime minister is in washington dc. we ll ask how he s being received and what he s trying to get out of his trip. and the croccodile who got herself pregnant. on her own. we ll find out how. we re going to look at ukraine s military advances in a minute. first the damage by the attack on the dam. look at this. this is the scene in the city of kherson. not streets but rooftops. many people spending night on rooftop waiting for rescue. 29 towns and villages tens of thousands of people at risk. remember the size of the area impacted. dnipro river, kherson. these are satellite pictures. you could see just two days apart, you can see the difference of the flood water. our correspondentjames water. our correspondent james waterhouse is wat
around the world, i m becky anderson live for you at buckingham palace in london with cnn s special coverage, continuing coverage of the death of queen elizabeth ii. an hour from now britain s late queen is scheduled to embark on her final journey, leaving her beloved country home in scotland for the last time. the hearse expected to depart from balmoral castle for a 175 mile, six-hour trip to edinburgh. there she will be taken to the official royal residence, the palace of holyroodhouse. the king and queen consort will attend a church service in edinburgh for the queen on monday. on the following day quinn ses ann will accompany the queen s casket on a flight to london. the queen will lie in state at westminster hall for four days as the public pays its final respects to britain s longest reigning monarch. her state funeral is september 19th at westminster abbey followed by internment at windsor castle. pomp and ceremony as her son charles iii was officially proclaimed the n
certainly he had the boos there. earlier this year police fined johnson for attending his birthday party in 2020 when fe fellow brittains were stuck at home under lockdown. cnn s bianca is there and staff writer for the atlantic is in london. bianca, i m going to start with you. first just lay out the process for us and the likelihood that boris johnson can survive this. reporter: victor, so it s started with letters from 54 of boris johnson s own mps to a committee that expressed they had no confidence in the prime minister. 15% had to be met, it could well have exceeded that number. this evening, right now, his own mps are voting whether or not they want boris johnson to remain on as prime minister or oust him. it requires a simple majority to stay on. even if he only needs 180 of his mps to vote for him to remain prime minister and live in the building behind me, he ll actually need more, decisively more, if he wants to continue with my semblance of political power and
we re going to talk about donetsk. and bakhmut. the deputy defence minister says. ukraine has switched from being defensive to offensive. think troops are advancing. saying troops are advancing. one example here. this is claimed to be two assault operations near bakhmut. footage released by the ukrainian armed forces. not been verified by the bbc. russia said it had defeated ukrainian attacks near the city. we have not independently verified that. we have not independently verified that. here s our correspondent quentin sommerville on the ukrainian military strategy. for months in this war, we ve been talking about incremental gains. we ve been talking about street one here, buildings taken there, maybe 100 metres lost somewhere else. well, now the ukrainians, particularly in donetsk, seem to be making far bigger gains, five, ten kilometres. and it s notjust the fact they re moving forward, it s how they re moving forward. they re using armour, they re using tanks,
thing to understand about a video poker festival. it s a small town in pre war population of around 30,000. so less than half of mahmoud it s about 50 miles to the south of mahmoud that the interesting thing about it is it sits just west of the old contact line before february 24th last year, the just west of the land that was controlled before this invasion by russian back separatists of it has been on the front lines of this conflict for a very long time. we are hearing now about a significant uptick in fighting. officials there, telling cnn on wednesday that the number of assault operations on the city was had grown many times over. he said the situation there was changing fast as to why this city will look, it s further south. it could possibly provide some kind of assistance as if russia tries to advance back to its sort of stalled offensive on lidar, the south of the city of done yet it also could potentially be a way to draw ukrainian forces away from mahmoud, where heavy fighti