don t know how we are going to live without a glaciers. and the defending women s us open champion, emma raducanu, has been knocked out of this year s tournament in the first round. hello and welcome. mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union, has died at the age of 91. he made it his mission to push for perestroika political and economic reforms to kick start the russian economy, and set the goal for glasnost more openness and transparency in the policies of the state and judicial system. he oversaw enormous changes, namely the break up of the soviet union in 1991, and the end of the cold war. russian president vladimir putin who had a sharply divergent view of how things should be done has expressed his deep sympathies . our russia editor steve rosenberg looks back at an historic life. he was the kind of russian leader the world had never seen. mikhail gorbachev smiled, he was relaxed. in the west, he acquired almost pop star status for helping to end
but is the boom sustainble? and could it be last orders for britain s pubs? we take a look at warnings from owners that rising energy bills could devastate the industry. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. i m victoria fritz. we start in europe, where the continent is facing yet more pressure from russia as it halts gas supplies through the major gas pipeline nord stream 1. gas deliveries are expected to be interupted for three days due to maintenance,’ according to the russian energy firm gazprom. this will be particularly difficult for germany, who depend heavily on supplies to power their factories. the pipeline was already