politics in the uk at the moment, do you still have confidence in the prime minister, is he the right person to lead the uk? i have absolute confidence in the prime minister. he s doing a fantasticjob. he has led on. ..delivering on brexit, helping britain recoverfrom covid, we were the first country to fully develop the vaccine and get it rolled out and now he s doing a brilliantjob of supporting ukraine in the appalling war against russia. and the conservatives have just lost two important by elections. should he be considering his position? his role? incumbent governments do tend to lose by elections. that s not a predictor of the future. what we are making sure is that we are getting the economy going, we re helping the economy grow so people have more opportunities, morejobs in the future and that is what will help us secure the next election. and the migrants deal, which has been signed between the uk and the rwandan government has come under a lot of scrutiny, even her
to have fallen into russian hands since mariupol. a third day of strike action disrupt services on the uk s rail network. rmt general secretary mick lynch says further industrial action hasn t been ruled out. borisjohnson has insisted that questions over his leadership have been settled and that he will lead the conservative party into the next general election. his comments follow the tories defeat in two by elections this week. speaking to the bbc from rwanda, where he s attending a commonwealth meeting, he said people were heartily sick of questions about his conduct and that a psychological transformation of his character would not happen. this report from alex forsyth in the rwandan capital kigali, contains some flash photography. diplomacy has been at the forefront of this commonwealth summit, but for the prime minister this morning, issues closer to home were dominant. evening, sir. last night, he attended an official dinner with his wife, carriejohnson, mingling with
norway cancels this year s oslo pride parade, after a deadly shooting at a gay nightclub, which police are treating as an act of islamist terrorism . and sir paul mccartney the star of glastonbury on stage in front of a massive crowd. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. watching in the uk in a breakthrough for president putin, russian forces have taken control of severodonetsk. the city occupies a key location in the east of ukraine. kyiv pulled out forces after ferocious russian attacks. weeks of heavy shelling have reduced the city to ruins. here s the mayor of severodonetsk announcing that the city had fallen into russian hands. the city has been fully occupied by the russian federation. as far as i know, they re trying to impose their rules and appoint some sort of commandant two is in charge. our ukraine correspondent joe inwood has the latest from the capital kyiv it isa it is a significant moment, maybe not as surprising when given
deadly attack on a series of oslo bars and nightclubs as islamist terrorism. and sir paul mccartney the star of glastonbury on stage in front of a massive crowd. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. audiences in the uk we begin in ukraine, where in a breakthrough for president putin, russian forces have taken control of severodonetsk. the city occupies a key location in the east of ukraine. kyiv pulled out forces after ferocious russian attacks. weeks of heavy shelling have reduced the city to ruins. here s the mayor of severodonetsk announcing that the city had fallen into russian hands. translation: the city has been fully occupied by the russian federation. as far as i know, they re trying to impose their rules and appoint some sort of commandant who is in charge. our ukraine correspondent joe inwood has the latest from the capital kyiv. it s a significant moment, maybe not as surprising when given the ukrainians said they were withdrawing
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. as severodonetsk falls, civilians have been fleeing the area, including elena, now boarding a train for the west of the country. translation: it was a horror the last week. yesterday we could not take it any more. thank you to the soldiers who evacuated us from there, otherwise this would have been it. i already told my husband if i die, please bury me behind the house. you need to understand, there is much shelling, so many ruined houses. it is