Welcome to bbc news. i m david eades. our top stories: russian attacks resume on mariupol s steel works, despite hundreds of ukrainian civilians remaining trapped inside. those who ve escaped tell their story. translation: for a month we were eating - over a0 of us six food tins. we boiled two buckets of soup out of them, and that was it for the whole day. a special report from the balkans on beijing s big european investment push, with accusations some chinese firms are treating workers like slaves. an alarming rise in executions in iran since the hardline cleric ebrahim raisi was elected president. and broadway is back with its busiest season in more than a decade, but covid is still
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Pop up vaccination centres have opened across england this this is bbc news. our main headlines: protests have been taking place in brazil against the president s handling of the pandemic as the country passes 500,000 covid deaths. the us says it will continue negotiating with iran to revive the international nuclear deal following the election of the hardline cleric ebrahim raisi as the next iranian president. the legendary indian athlete milkha singh has died at the age of 91. popularly known as the flying sikh because of how fast he ran, mr singh had a remarkable life, from being a refugee after the partition of india to being an olympic sprinter. from mumbai, the bbc s india correspondent yogita limaye reports. with each run, milkha singh pushed a newborn india to dream bigger.
George washington liked to breed foxhounds for hunting. john adams, the first president to be actually in the white house, had two dogs, juno and satan i don t know why his dog was named satan. lewis chuckles. this is something that has been ongoing. we have only had a few presidents with no pets, including president trump. president trump did not have any pets that was a rarity. that s interesting that it is a rarity do not have them, isn t it? so what does it mean? what does it represent, these pets, usually dogs, i presume, in the white house, and going back such a long way? i think it is just the fact that americans are very dog loving people. i ve seen studies that as high as two thirds of american homes have dogs and i think that, you know, it s a way to connect with the voters but it s also partially because our presidents come from our society and then, they rejust common people well, you know, to a certain extent like the rest of us so if two thirds of american homes h
This is bbc news, the headlines: thousands of people in cities across brazil have been protesting against the government of president jair bolsonaro, demanding that the covid vaccination programme be speeded up. it comes as brazil passes the mark of half a million covid deaths, with the country entering a third wave of the pandemic. the us says it will continue negotiating with iran to revive the international nuclear deal, following the election of the hardline cleric ebrahim raisi as the next iranian president. his victory following a tightly controlled election in which reformists were barred from standing. a gay-pride rally has taken place in poland s capital at least one man has been killed after a pickup truck slammed into a pride parade in florida. it happened near fort lauderdale. now on bbc news, click takes in the world s largest