between liverpool and real madrid. hello, and a warm welcome to bbc news. good to have you with me this hour. we begin with ukraine. it s 100 days since russia began its invasion. president zelensky marked the occasion by praising the country s resistance. but he s admitted russia now controls one fifth of his country, that nearly 1a million people have been forced to flee and that thousands of civilians have been killed. 0n the ground, vladimir putin s focus is now on the donbas region in the east, where his forces continue to make gains. but the governor of the luhansk region says ukrainian troops have recaptured parts of severodonetsk. if confirmed, it would mean russian forces control only half the city. 0ur international correspondent 0rla guerin has been with ukrainian troops near bakhmut, one of the next towns in russia s path. a dirt track that leads to a grinding war. we re in donbas, the key battleground. the russians are two miles down the road. this area, around b
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tonnes of grain it hadn t been able to export. but president putin says russia is ready to guarantee the safe export of ukrainian grain via ports on the azov and black seas it controls. he denied moscow was preventing ukrainian ports from exporting grain. mr putin was speaking after talks in sochi with the head of the african union, who told him that africa was an indirect economic victim because of its reliance on ukrainian and russian cereals and fertiliser. translation: you re quite welcome to export wheat via seaports - under ukrainian control, first of all, the black sea ports 0desa and the nearby ports. we didn t mind the ukrainian ports. it was ukraine. i ve told our colleagues many times let them clear the mines so the ships loaded with wheat can leave these ports. we will guarantee their safe passage with no problems. president putin speaking in sochi a
about a third of all wheat exports, so it was vital that india stepped up so it was vital that india stepped up to the plate, and they were having a great harvest until march, exporting 7 million tonnes, an increase of 250% on the previous year, but they have been hit badly by a heatwave, temperatures of 45 degrees, and they think this is not going away, it will continue until the monsoons, so they expect a shortfall in their crops. 0n the monsoons, so they expect a shortfall in their crops. on top of that, though, the country has also been hit by inflation, hitting its highest levels since 2014 at 7.79%. the reserve bank of india put up interest rates for the first time in four years, which surprised everyone. so they are trying to look after their own domestic market, and this will have a massive impact on poorer countries especially who rely on this wheat. as you say, only a little while ago they were saying, we are here to export wheat. they sent trade delegates out in april to pla