control of the eastern city to moscow s army. the battle for bakhmut has been the longest and bloodiest of the war. this aerialfootage taken earlier this month shows intense shelling in a residential area. most people fled before fighting broke out. bakhmut is of little strategic value, but its capture would be a symbolic victory for russia. the battle for bakhmut began last august. ukraine says its forces still control part of it. our bbc verify team has been looking at images that show the extent of the destruction there during these months of fighting. this is bakhmut before russia invaded ukraine. once famous for its sparkling wine and thousands of rose bushes. this is bakhmut now reduced to a landscape of ruin and death. but not defeated, the ukrainian army told us. ukrainian troops stay in south western part of bakhmut. ukrainian army keep pushing the enemy from site of the city. 70,000 people used to live here before russia s full scale invasion of ukraine. i was her
and professor steve h hanke from johns hopkins university. he served on president reagan s council of economic advisers. we will bring you up to date in the case of the first american journalist to face espionage charges in russia since the soviet era. evan gershkovich has had an appeal against his pre trial detention rejected. and we will look at why encrypted messaging services like whatsapp are urging the uk government to make changes to the online safety bill. but first, our top story on the programme, the dominion versus fox trial. it s been variously described as explosive a bombshell trial, and today it got under way in the us. a company that makes voting machines dominion suing the conservative fox news network for defamation. and in the last few minutes, we have heard it has settled. you will remember that it was due to start yesterday. there were delays for 2h hours. the case had got under way, but we understand it has now settled. our correspondent michelle f
the frontlines, the ukrainian president volodymr zelensky made a surprise commencement speech for graduates atjohns hopkins university. he spoke virtually to the graduates. let s listen to some of what he had to say. i m proud that ukraine is not losing a single day in its defence against russian terror. every day, we do everything to become stronger, to give more protection to people, to save more lives. the united states has also not lost a single day to help ukraine repel the russian aggression. well, joining us is pulitzer prize winning historian anne applebaum and a senior fellow atjohns hopkins who introduced president zelensky s address. tell us how it is a about. it was tell us how it is a about. it was the idea of the president of the university. he asked me
risk that they would be exposed to, and in terms, by the way, sarah, of this false news and so forth, i have experienced this rather recently in the covid period, because in covid, remember, the beauty and efficacy of lockdowns was repeated over and over again in the press. it turns out that i along with two colleagues did a study atjohns hopkins, a meta analysis of all the studies that had been done on lockdowns, and just how effective they were, and we looked at almost 20,000 studies, and out of those 20,000. looked at almost 20,000 studies, and out of those 20,000. . . out of those 20,000. .. professor, i am sorry. out of those 20,000. .. professor, i am sorry. we out of those 20,000. .. professor, i am sorry. we are out of those 20,000. .. professor, i am sorry, we are just out of those 20,000. .. professor, i am sorry, we are just going - out of those 20,000. .. professor, i am sorry, we are just going to - out of those 20,000. .. professor, i am sorry, we are just going
day, according to data collected by johns hopkins university. the us food and drug administration has now expanded vaccine booster eligibility to allow 12 to 15 year olds to receive a third shot of the pfizer biontech vaccine. for the latest on how the omicron variant is affecting cases across the country, i ve been speaking to elizabeth stuart, associate dean for education atjohns hopkins bloomberg school of public health like we ve seen in many other countries, we are seeing some decoupling of cases with hospitalisations and deaths. all are very high and higher than we would want them to be, but we are seeing some of that decoupling here. decoupling here. elizabeth, i know there decoupling here. elizabeth, i know there is decoupling here. elizabeth, i know there is some - decoupling here. elizabeth, i know there is some debate, | decoupling here. elizabeth, i. know there is some debate, as there is in many other countries, about whether children should be going back to school i