solo headliner, at the age of 80. hello and welcome to bbc news. russian forces are now said to be fully occupying the ukrainian city of severodonetsk, a key location in the war, in the east of the country. weeks of heavy shelling have reduced the city to ruins and ukraine s army has now pulled its troops out. saturday also saw an upsurge in russian missile strikes across ukraine. in his nightly address, president zelensky said the war had entered an emotionally difficult stage, and that air defence systems held in storage in allied nations were needed more than ever. shelley phelps has the latest. ukraine says its retreat is a tactical withdrawal as severodonetsk falls, ukraine says this is a technical withdrawal. it is to fight from higher ground in neighbouring lysychasnk, which has also come under heavy bombardment. elena hasjust arrived from there. it was a horror, the last week. we could not take it anymore. thank you to the soldiers who evacuated us from there, otherwi
first up today were the women following on from their victory at lea valley in london yesterday, ellie rayer put them ahead in the first quarter. that had been against the run of play and two goals in three minutes saw england lose 2 1 this afternoon. they re fifth in the pro league table. netherlands are second. after that, there was also disappointment for england s men. they lost 3 0 to the netherlands yesterday, and were thumped 6 3 today. england remain fifth, netherlands go top. before we go, let s get the latest from the cardiff city stadium as wales look to end their 64 year wait to appear at a world cup. just a matter of minutes left there in cardiff, and it is still 1 0 to wales. as things stand, as the clock ticks down, it says wales wales there are, it is of course wales ukraine. as it stands, wales will be going to the world cup in qatar. a nervy finalfew going to the world cup in qatar. a nervy final few minutes there. you can follow all the latest from a
she gasps see, i could see you flinching. yeah, i shivered in that little bit! but i think that s great because i think what that means is that the film is achieving that kind of fairy tale ambience. i mean, obviously, you know, apple trees, there s the spectre of the green man. there s all these male characters played by the same person, which tells us something which is either that she is seeing all men as the same person or that all men are basically the same, which is essentially, you know, the message at the centre of the movie. the reason i liked it is this firstly, i like the idea about adult fairy tales. i mean, the best fairy tales are scary. they are creepy. you know, when we were kids, we read fairy tales because we liked that. this is an adult tale, but it is creepy. second thing is, jessie buckley is terrific. she always is. i ve never seen a film in which she s bad. rory kinnear playing all the different men does manage to inject each one with a different ambi
the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week s cinema releases is mark kermode. what have you got for us this week, mark? a very exciting week. we have men, which is a horror inflected fairy tale. we have major, which is inspired by a true story of heroism. and bergman island can life and art ever be separated? men, the clip of this gives me the creeps so much that i don t think i could bring myself to watch it! and you say it s some kind of fantasy horror? yes. let me try and sell it to you. so it s by alex garland, who wrote and directed ex machina and annihilation. i think it s like a playfully twisted fairy tale about gender. jessie buckley is harper. she s come out of an abusive relationship. she decides to go off to a country retreat to what she calls the dream country house with the emphasis on dream, because everything about what we re looking at tells us, you know, there s an apple tree outside from which apples