the mood here and, indeed, across ukraine is one notjust of grief, but exhaustion, the fear that this long war has barely even begun and that the work of body collectors like denys will be needed here for months, if not for years, to come. andrew harding, bbc news, ukraine. in pakistan, at least a0 people have died after a bus plunged off a bridge. the accident happened in the south west of the country. officials said the vehicle hit a bridge pillar before losing control and bursting into flames. separately, at least ten children have died in a boat accident in the north west of pakistan. the boat capsized on tanda dam lake in kohat district. caroline davies reports. still dripping water, carried to the ambulances. this was the fear and panic after a boat capsized on a lake in northwest pakistan.
the world nonstop. this is newsday on the bbc. i m karishma vaswani in singapore. let s return to ukraine now, because among those killed in the east of the country last week was denys sossnenko. he died while carrying out the dangerous task of retrieving the bodies of civilians and soldiers. he was buried by friends and family this weekend. my colleague andrew harding has more now on his story. and i just want to warn you, you might find some of andrew s report distressing. fresh snow and a funeral in the donbas this morning. this time, for a man who was not quite a soldier and not quite a civilian either. 21 year old denys was a body collector.
brought to his home town cemetery. the mood here and, indeed, across ukraine is one notjust of grief, but exhaustion. the fear that this long war has barely even begun, and that the work of body collectors like denys will be needed here for months, if not for years, to come. andrew harding, bbc news, ukraine. we look at the us now, where the us house speaker kevin mccarthy is set to sit down with presidentjoe biden in the white house on wednesday. a spokesperson says the conversation would cover a range of issues , but it comes as the us has hit the debt ceiling, with the treasury department now having to put measures in place to stop it defaulting on that debt. the white house says the president plans to ask mccarthy how he s going to reduce the defecit and grow the economy. but speaker mccarthy told cbs face the nation that he also wants to talk about controlling
the dead up limb by limb. but today, his team mates talk of his dedication. translation: he did so much with his short life. he brought back so many dead people. and we must carry on with that work, because there are families still waiting for the dead to come home. so many of those unclaimed bodies are here in the northern donbas a blasted landscape, littered with russian corpses. but the kremlin s forces are learning from their mistakes and slowly seizing more ground. russia are learning every day and they change their strategy, and it s very hard for us, and i think we need to learn fast. faster? than russia, yeah. in the meantime, denys s coffin is
his mother is led towards his open coffin. she sobs last year, we met denys, standing in the background here. he was with his team of volunteers, close to the front lines. a grim and dangerousjob. scouring ukraine s battlefields forabandoned bodies, ukrainian and russian soldiers alike. and now, he s being buried, a few days after driving over an anti tank mine. he always told us, i have to do this work. if not me, then who?” , says his mother, lyudmyla. she sobs last october, another bbc team caught up with denys, collecting more russian bodies, after checking they weren t booby trapped, as they often are. denys spoke then of the horrors of the work, of picking