The bombing is relentless. Explosion. Shallow trenches offer the barest of protection from russian fire. Come on this way. Down. Down, down, down, down. Get in, get down. We follow closely in their daily life and death struggle to halt their enemy. Outgunned and outmanned, they refuse to give ground. Explosion. They are the defenders of donbas. First light on the Eastern Front. And the opening battle of the day for Ukrainian Forces heading forward. Is with the mud. War has left donbas ploughed and churned. This is their Second Spring since russia invaded, their Second Season of muck and misery and their second year in their struggle to keep their country free. Ukraines Eastern Front stretches for nearly 1,000 kilometres, mostly across the luhansk and donetsk regions that make up donbas. Capturing here is now russias principal war aim. We met up with ukraines 1st Tank Brigade on the zero line just outside velyka novosilka. Few know how to handle this heavily contested ground better than
It comes five days after a Ukrainian Drone attack in the same area. Now on bbc news, defenders of donbas. Theyre one of ukraines most decorated brigades in a daily battle to hold back russia on the Eastern Front. For the 1st Tank Brigade, its the fight of their lives. Under constant attack from airand ground. Come, quickly. They gave us unprecedented access to their front lines. While they fight to keep russia out from a town under constant attack. Dog barks explosion the bombing is relentless. Explosion shallow trenches offer the barest of protection from russian fire. Come on this way. Down. Down, down, down, down. Get in, get down. We follow closely in their daily life and death struggle to halt their enemy. Outgunned and outmanned, they refuse to give ground. Explosion they are the defenders of donbas. First light on the Eastern Front. And the opening battle of the day for Ukrainian Forces heading forward. Is with the mud. War has left donbas ploughed and churned. This is their Sec
also in this edition a special report from ukraine. explosion. a report from just 700m from russian lines in eastern ukraine, where soldiers are engaged in brutal trench warfare. get in, get down. two russian shells are get in, get down. two russian shells are coming. get in, get down. two russian shells are coming. i get in, get down. two russian shells are coming. i think- get in, get down. two russian shells are coming. i think it i shells are coming. i think it is time for. anger in israel after the country s parliament passes a new law preventing the removal of the prime minister. voice-over: live from our studio in singapore, - this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 9:00 in the morning in singapore and 9pm in washington, dc, where the boss of tiktok has been in the hot seat as he defends the social media app to the us congress. around the globe, an estimated 1.5 billion people use tiktok every day and more than 150 million of them are in america. several govern
in brutal trench warfare. get in here and get down. those two russian shells that have just come in, i think it s tank fire. and tier gas and dozens of arrests in paris as protests across france against plans to raise the pension age continue into a ninth day. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 8am in singapore, and 8pm in washington, dc where the boss of tiktok has been in the hot seat, defending the social media app during a us congressional hearing. around the globe, an estimated 1.5 billion people use tiktok every day and more than a 150 million of them are in america. several governments and even big companies have advised their staff to take care when using it. shou zi chew insisted data would never be given to the chinese communist party, but did accept that data is currently accessible to staff in china. it led to some angy exchanges on capitol hill as nomia iqbal reports. even before he arrived shou zi chew was on tikto
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. in ukraine, soldiers are engaged in brutal trench warfare reminiscent of battles in another war, more than a century ago. the fighting around the key city of bakhmut is some of the bloodiest, with neither side gaining a significant advantage. our correspondent quentin sommerville, and camera operator darren conway, have been to the frontline where some of the fiercest fighting of the war has taken place. into a crater of no man s land, where even tank armour can be breached. up close and in range, serhii s tank crew releases everything it s got against russian targets. explosions the enemy is just 500m away across this field. watch serhii s round hit, top right. gunfire the orders are get in, get out, and take cover. we are right behind them. quickly! go to position. go, quickly. go, quickly! 0pen ground is their enemy s friend. explosion translation: our tank worked successfully on the target, - so the enemy arti