with incidents in the weeks leading up to her death. and one month since the devastating earthquakes killed more than 50,000 people in turkey and syria conditions are still desperate. we begin with the war in ukraine. the country s president, volodymyr zelensky, says military commanders support digging in further, and continuing to defend the eastern city of bakhmut. it follows reports ukrainian troops may have been preparing to withdraw from the city, which russia has been trying to capture for months. fierce fighting is seeing battles happening from street to street. this is where bakhmut is located. the all out assault here by russia has led to the loss of many thousands of men, that s despite the us pentagon saying victory is of little strategic importance. lets dive deeper, here s a detailed picture of the current situation from the think tank, the institute for the study of war. you can see bakhmut in the large circle in the top right of the screen. the red shaded a
we look at divisions over australia s colonial legacy with many young people shunning the holiday. and understanding apes. we look at new evidence that the way we communicate could have come from these animal ancestors. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. meta has announced it will reinstate donald trump s facebook and instagram accounts, two years after he was suspended following the capitol riots. nick clegg, the president of global affairs, has laid out the reasons for the decision on the meta website. he says. the former president has also given his reaction on his own social media platform, truth social, saying. let s bring in our north america correspondent, peter bowes. he s been watching this story very closely. peter, great to get you on the show. just talk us through the backdrop of this. why was donald trump in the first instance taken off the first instance taken off the platform? he the first inst
again. we have a special report from china on the rise of covid again. we have a special report from china on the rise of covid and - china on the rise of covid and related deaths tierney to rise. tyranny. we look at divisions over australia s colonial legacy. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start the show for you today with the latest developments the parent company of facebook and instagram has announced it will end its suspension of the former president donald trump s accounts. this is after a two year ban that was imposed on mr trump in the wake of the january the 6th storming of the us capitol. his claim that the election was stolen was widely disseminated on social media. we can bring in our north america correspondent peter bowes, who s been watching this story very carefully. great to give you on the programme. i imagine you remember the background of life former president trump was susp
at the australian open but defending champion rafael nadal heads home after his dramatic second round exit. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 1am in ukraine where the government says it s suffered its biggest loss of the war, when the three principal figures in the interior ministry were killed after their helicopter crashed in kyiv. interior minister denys monastyrskiy died with his deputy, and the department s state secretary along with the crew when the aircraft came down in bad weather in brovary, a suburb of the capital. the crash set fire to a kindergarten. at least 1a people died, including one child. our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse sent this report from the scene and a warning, you may find some of his report distressing. sobbing even with the backdrop of war, it s been one of ukraine s bleakest days. in the mist of the morning, a helicopter came down next to a childre
contest. president biden s warning that any use of nuclear weapons would lead to armageddon. he s urged russians to stand up against the war. it comes as ukrainian troops continue making steady progress in reclaiming land occupied by russian forces in the east and south of the country. our world affairs editor john simpson has been speaking to president zelensky in kyiv. they begin to prepare their society. that is very dangerous. they are not ready to do it, to use it, but they begin to communicate. what, you mean prepare society for using a nuclear weapon, you think? you know, it s. .. they don t know if they will use or they will not use. i think that it s dangerous even to speak about it. i said, you have to do preventive kicks, not attacks, we are not terrorists, and we don t fight on another territory. even our attitude from our society, attitude to to russians after this invasion, after all these eight years war, eight years blood tragedy, even after this, attitude fro