wrexham fans. could they be promoted back to the football league? interested in that because of the whole hollywood connection thing. michael will be giving us more details on that in sport. you ve probably heard of mountain bikes, bmxs and road bikes, but have you heard of gravel bikes? they re off road bikes kind of like a mountain bike but designed for long journeys with plenty of dirt tracks. they are becoming more popular and one of the largest gravel bike challenges in europe takes place today in northumberland, as alison freeman reports. the wide open spaces of the northumberland landscape, where people get to enjoy all it has to offer in peaceful and often empty surroundings. but this weekend hundreds of cyclists will descend on kielder to participate in the dirty reiver gravel bike event. thea;r
thank you for joining us. i know you were on the front lines reporting on the fighting there in bakhmut. how sustainable is the current level of battle? well, thank you. it s a very, very tough battle there. you have several brigades inside the city of bakhmut. you have the forces of wagner trying to circle the city. right now there are no roads that are passable for forces so they ll have to use dirt tracks that are basically mud right now. so vehicles get stuck, they get shelled. it s going to be harder and harder every day to supply the ukrainian defenders of bakhmut. what do you make of these conflicting views militarily? you have the pentagon saying this would not be a strategic loss for ukraine if they retreated. there you heard from president zelenskyy saying that it would be, it is of tactical
battle that has onlien intensified the last few weeks and there are, by ukrainian estimates, some 45,000 californians left at the latest count and they are trying to get them out as best they can. we dead thasked the deputy mayo was left. what we re talking about are the elderly, infirm and those that are least well off. they are the ones stuck after this seven-month-long siege and now they are finding it increasingly hard to get out. down to five to ten evacuations a day because they are using dirt tracks to get out of the town given the damage done and the shelling going on of the supply routes. so a dreadful picture. but ukrainian soldiers, ukrainian military saying that they are holding on because, of course, every hour gained is an important degradation further of russia s war machine and, of course, that includes its
we ve just actually learned this morning, that according to our teams on the ground have spoken to local police, the last remaining supply route in and out of bakhmut for the ukrainians was a bridge, a key bridge, that was actually taken out by the russians overnight. ukrainians still have access in and out of the town through some dirt tracks and some field, it s not nearly as direct, not nearly as efficient as this previous wrote. this bridge. the ukrainians are under immense pressure right there. and we ll, of course, in the coming months, they are getting tanks from western allies, they ve also asked for fighter jets, this aid package coming from the united states is expected to be announced today, is likely to have neither of those things. in fact, it is likely to focus on the basics of what the ukrainians need right now. listen. the focus on munitions, on ammunition, the kinds of things that they need for these long