on suspicion of murdering 35 year old zara aleena in england. police say she was the victim of an opportunist stranger attack . scotland s first minister nicola sturgeon will set out her plans to hold a second referendum on scottish independence. and the dogs not playing ball how these pooches were tipped to be wimbledon s ball boys and girls, but failed to get moving. ..without a treat. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. at least 46 people have been found dead in an abandoned lorry on the outskirts of san antonio, texas. officials say a further 16 people, including four children, were taken to hospital suffering from heat stroke and exhaustion. san antonio is around 150 miles from the us mexico border and a major transit route for people traffickers. azadeh moshiri. emergency responders crowd together after dozens of bodies were found in an abandoned lorry. more than a dozen survivors, including children, were rushed to hospital. a worker
solo headliner, at the age of 80. hello and welcome to bbc news. russian forces are now said to be fully occupying the ukrainian city of severodonetsk, a key location in the war, in the east of the country. weeks of heavy shelling have reduced the city to ruins and ukraine s army has now pulled its troops out. saturday also saw an upsurge in russian missile strikes across ukraine. in his nightly address, president zelensky said the war had entered an emotionally difficult stage, and that air defence systems held in storage in allied nations were needed more than ever. shelley phelps has the latest. ukraine says its retreat is a tactical withdrawal as severodonetsk falls, ukraine says this is a technical withdrawal. it is to fight from higher ground in neighbouring lysychasnk, which has also come under heavy bombardment. elena hasjust arrived from there. it was a horror, the last week. we could not take it anymore. thank you to the soldiers who evacuated us from there, otherwi
ruling on abortion calling it a victory for life itself. # when i saw her standing there. # sir paul mccartney absolutely wows glastonbury and brings on surprise guests bruce springsteen and dave grohl. hello and welcome to bbc news. there have been several large explosions in the ukrainian capital, kyiv, after russian missile attacks. the city s mayor says ambulances and rescuers have been sent to the scene. the attacks come hours after president zelensky made another plea for ukraine s allies to provide air defence systems. these are the latest pictures from the scene of the missile attacks taken by our team in kyiv. several apartment blocks have been hit with debris falling onto caras parked below. several people have been injured. it s the first assault on ukraine s capital since earlyjune. kyiv s mayor has called it an attempt to intimidate by russia ahead of international summits. vitali klitschko arrived at the scene of a strike a short time ago, and says peopl
hello, and welcome to bbc news. we begin with some news which has been breaking out of somalia over the last couple of hours, where security forces say they ve ended a siege that had lasted over 30 hours at the hayat hotel in the capital, mogadishu, where islamist gunmen were reported to be holding hostages. there s been no independent verification, and no official statement from the somali government. our reporter emily brown has been following the story and joins me now. emily, what is the latest? we know this first began on friday evening, wendy al shabaab group were known to have detonated at least two bombs outside the hayat hotel in the capital. when the al shabaab. dozens were evacuated from the building, said to be popular with politicians and journalists. we know the siege is said to have lasted 30 hours, with government having held hostages inside. we have some footage in which you can hear the gunshots. frame. this was an intense battle for frame. this was an
was first released. hello and welcome to bbc news. president putin has described the sanctions imposed on russia because of its invasion of ukraine as insane. he said the measures had failed to work, and were impacting the west instead. the british prime minister has announced that the uk will lead a major training operation for ukrainian soldiers with the aim of training up to ten thousand soldiers every four months. and the question of ukraine s candidacy for the eu is expected to be decided at a european council summit next week. azadeh moshiri has this report. the president told his people there was some good news. translation: there was some good news. translation: now we are one ste awa translation: now we are one step away from translation: now we are one step away from the translation: now we are one step away from the beginning l translation: now we are one | step away from the beginning of a full fledged integration into the european union. we have a positive d