To. Rob a bride al jazeera hong kong. Plenty more still ahead on the news hour including a spiritual pensacolas more than 2000000. 00 gather for one of the Worlds Largest pilgrimages. Once a World Heritage site city and is being damaged by pollution. And this was news of a record breaking defeat for the all zealand news you know all blacks details coming up and. Now tens of thousands of russians have taken to the streets in the 4th consecutive weekend of protests demanding free and Fair Elections set over to Felicity Barr now in our european Broadcast Center for more on that felicity. Thank you simon yes monitoring groups in fact say 50000 people attended the rally in moscow and more than 200 have been arrested the activists are demanding that opposition candidates be allowed to run in local elections next month they also want those detained during recent protests to be released when a government crackdown on the demonstrations which started in july has seen stiles arrested on saturday
A truce for the festive period after his forces launched an offense to the capital tripoli in april hundreds of people have been killed in the fighting. Still to come here. An outcry in the u. S. After a disgraced american francis found dead in jail for an apparent suicide and take a look at whats at stake in guatemala as upcoming president ial election. At home speaking is looking out stoppable ahead of the austere austrian from the details coming up later its. More than 50000 opposition protesters of ramadan russias capital the biggest demonstration of its kind in years they were protesting against the exclusion of some candidates from next months local elections more than 200 people were arrested stuff awesome reports now from moscow. This huge turnout shows that the governments crackdown is not working despite massive arrests. In the past weeks more people have gathered to demand that and to Police Violence and asked those detained to be released what started as a local election pr
then next week there is temperatures high teens across the north and west, 21 and 22 across east anglia, then next week this ridge of high pressure moves in closer, milder air comes off the atlantic and although it will probably be quite cloudy for scotland and northern ireland, england and wales given the brakes on cloud and sunshine, it is set to get warmer with temperatures climbing on friday in london to reach highs of 22 degrees so summer has not gone away yet. and that s bbc news at six. i will be back with the news at ten but it s now time hello and welcome to sportsday. i m chethan partak. all come along to wimbledon this friday night. coming up on the programme. heatherwatson programme. heather watson continues to programme. heatherwatson continues to wow, as she secured her place in the fourth round of this year s championships. it meant so much to get over the line there at the end and i was just really proud of myself and just grateful for the sport out there. sti
it will come to an end sooner or later. plenty more that we ve been hearing from putin. yet again of putin questioned ukraine s very identity by that ukrainians and russians were one people. he questioned ukraine s territorial integrity, claiming that huge swathes of south eastern ukraine actually belonged to russia. he painted a very rosy picture of how things were going for his forces and said that the situation was improving for them and for ukraine he described the situation as a tragedy. he also hinted at difficulties experienced in terms of logistics supplying his troops in ukraine and he said not everything was being delivered on time and he also hinted that russia was successful in circumventing western sanctions saying that some of the war supplies were being purchased from abroad privately. he is sounding as defiant as ever, saying russia s goals in ukraine remained unchanged, those are the same goals that he announced before the start of the invasion last year with