in the last few weeks and water levels have dropped alarmingly. spain has also suffered from the drought. now on bbc news, ukraine: a year on the frontlines. over the past 30 years or so, i ve covered conflicts in the middle east, in the balkans and in africa, but this is unlike anything that i have ever known. this is a war that we did not expect to see in europe in ourtime. there was a sense that the security architecture that we knew, the safety, the security that we thought we had since the end of the cold war, that was gone. i was here injanuary and february of last year, counting down to the invasion. i was sure it would come, but it turned out to be even worse than i expected. we were in mariupol, which is a port city in the east. it s only 30 miles from the russian border. but inside the city, there was this surreal atmosphere of calm. and i remember we went to film in a supermarket. there was no panic buying. the shelves were full. we met a lady called tatiana, who w
tonight at ten. the rise in albanians crossing the channel in small boats, lured by higher wages and gangs recruiting them for the drugs trade. the numbers have gone up sharply this year we report from albania on what s behind it. locals in this neighbourhood say 70% of the community has already left, and many of those living here now are thinking ofjoining them. also on the programme tonight. staff at twitter find out if they ve been sacked, as the firm s new owner, elon musk, drastically cuts costs. a series of rail strikes due to start tomorrow has been suspended, but the late notice means services tomorrow will be extremely limited. a major shift in money for the arts. the english national opera will move out of london, as blackpool illuminations wins funding for the first time. and the facial recognition technology that s helping to identify photos of holocaust victims and its survivors. on bbc london, the growing numbers of child trafficking victims disappearing from
line. today we return to our ongoing series focusing on the specific states in races where the outcome could put people in power who went up and the crucial american ideal of free and fair elections. today s edition takes us to pennsylvania, where the republican nominee for governor was at the capitol on january six, and he s openly declared his role in, as if elected, to interfere with election outcomes in his state. pennsylvania s attorney general and democratic nominee for governor, josh shapiro, joins me to talk about what s of stake in pennsylvania. i always fighting this battle, and why he will not share originate stage with his opponent. meanwhile, her dedication to truth and democracy is costing her a seat in congress. now, republican leader cheney, a republican contender, so she will campaign for democrats this year if that s what it takes to keep the election deniers from her own party. then, the numbers are scary. inflation is over a percent, the biggest interest r
plus an explosion kills the daughter of a key ally of vladimir putin. raising questions about whether the ally himself was the target. in confusion reigns as florida school year starts with the don t say gay bill in full force. we will have a live report ahead. next hour, the two democratic candidates hoping to unseat governor ron desantis. the man behind that bill, it will join me live. nikki frieden charlie crist ahead of their tuesday showdown. you don t want to miss this. we re going to begin in georgia this hour way circuit court of appeals. a short time ago, temporarily blocked senator lindsey graham from having to testify before a fulton county special grand jury on tuesday. this blocking comes just two days after a judge had denied graham s attempt to delay the testimony. fulton county district attorney fani willis whose investigating possible election interference in georgia during the 2020 race wants to question graham about the calls he made to georgia secretary of
the decline of the bewick s is being blamed in part on their wetland habitat being destroyed. climate change is also altering their migration routes. longer summers in the russian arctic and warmer european autumns mean the swans don t have to come as far as slimbridge to find winter feeding grounds. it s just one lake and a single species, but chronicled over 60 years the bewick s fate is a telling snapshot of our rapidly changing planet. jonah fisher, bbc news, at slimbridge. time for a look at the weather. here s louise lear. great weather for webbed feet, i think, is the best description. it s really trying our patients at the moment. it seems to have been relentless. a lot of the countryside looking like this, fairly flooded.