guns that you can hear. also on tonight s programme. having your say on your neighbours home extension ministers announce new planning proposals. there could be street votes to determine what gets built but critics say the plans will make the housing shortage even worse than it already is. i understand the need for housing. i mean, it would change my outlook on it obviously if it was built right on my doorstep, but that s probably a bit selfish. the hidden curse of chronic pain up to a quarter of people in uk suffer in silence, and many end up on opioid drugs that aren t the answer. the one time friends who are now facing off in court rebekah vardy admits she asked her agent to monitor coleen rooney s instagram account. and coming up on sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel. the scottish premiership title could be celtic s tonight. theyjust need to avoid defeat at dundee united. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six, live from the ukrainian ca
our army and passers by that we were tv. there was the first shot. returned and found her on the ground. borisjohnson signed a new host security deal with amanda swindon. both countries are considering joining the nato military alliance. ukrainian forces are advancing against russian troops just north of the country s second largest city, kharkiv. kharkiv is just 30 miles from the border and the operation may pose a wider threat to russia s war in the east. you can see in purple in this map the ukrainian counter attacks, which have taken a number of towns and pushed russian artillery back towards the border. the ukrainian military says it has recaptured four villages near kharkiv in recent days. he air raid sirens. the spectre of russian victory once haunted this city. but no more. for months, the invaders were at the city gates, but kharkiv has cast doubt vladimir putin s foot but kharkiv has cast out vladimir putin s foot soldiers, forcing them back towards the border. this
of a key supreme court ruling. shanghai residents face more covid 19 restrictions as china tries to crush an outbreak. millions have now been locked in their homes for seven weeks we are restricted on the food we can get over the next few days. no commercial deliveries, no group buys just government approved food deliveries. there s also further restrictions on access to the hospitals. and a passenger with no idea how to fly is given instructions to land a plane in florida, after the pilot fell ill. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. ukrainian forces have been retaking a number of towns and villages, pushing russian infantry and artillery back towards the border. the fighting, which has led to a dramatic fall in russian shelling of kharkiv, has been slow and costly but ukrainian forces, say they now have the upper hand. kharkiv is just a0 kilometres from the russian border, and the russians retreat coul
there is now a full-court press to abolish the legislative filibuster in the united states senate. they want to blow through the norms of his country and they want to bypass what the founders envisioned. brian: straight to a fox news alert. but first this, a man arrested after eight people killed in a string of shootings in atlanta spas. police say the shootings happened last night at three different massage parlors and all in the span of one hour. ainsley: police tracked down the suspect, he s 21 years old and his name is robert long. they tracked them down through surveillance footage capturing his car near each of these crime scenes, lawrence. lawrence: police say he was arrested after taking office on a car chase that ended in a crash. police are investigating the motive for the shooting and we will continue to follow this story with new developments throughout the morning. brian: meanwhile, good morning everyone. happy st. patrick s day. ainsley: lawrence, look at lawr
Inspired the foundation of the National Trust. And ben has the weekend weather. Good morning. The weather does not particularly look inspiring this weekend. There will be some rain at times and it will be blustery as well. All the details in 15 minutes. All the details in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Motorists should think long and hard before buying a diesel car, thats the message from the Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling. Hes Urging Drivers to consider a less polluting vehicle instead. Four in ten cars on britains roads are diesel. Under labour they had been billed as the clean alternative to petrol with reduced fuel taxes. Now theyre said to be one of the reasons for increasing levels of Air Pollution. Lets get more on this with our correspondent Nick Quraishi whos in central london. Chris grayling is using these comments in the daily mail to distance himself from what labour did when it was in power. In 2001, gordon brown as chancellor cut the tax on low sulp