toy retailers and other businesses are warning that delays at uk ports will result in shortages this christmas. a lack of care staff in the community is causing major problems for hospitals, with elderly patients unable to be discharged. and a safe return to earth for william shatner, alias captain kirk the oldest person ever to visit space. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. chelsea are away to juventus as they look to pick up their first win in this season s women s champions league. good evening. the european union has tried to break the deadlock on the long running brexit dispute involving northern ireland. it says the new plan would halve the customs paperwork needed. this dispute is all about the northern ireland protocol, which was agreed and signed by the uk and the eu, and came into force at the start of this year. among other things, the protocol requires extra checks and paperwork on products like food and drink imported from britain. because nor
explaining the situation in blunt terms. we don t believe they have overcome the logistics problems, the command and control issues, unit cohesion and organization. all the problems are stilt bedevilling the russian military. they re resupplying, refitting to reinforce the forces in the donbas and we can see it happening now. an internal conversation is reportedly underway within the biden administration whether or not to send a high level government official to ukraine to show support. politico reports it is likely to be a cabinet member to make the trip rather than the president or vice president but president biden was asked about it this afternoon. will you send senior officials to ukraine? we are making that decision now. joining us is ali arouzi once again live from lviv, ukraine. ali, 24 hours ago exactly former adviser to president zelenskyy said the ship was burning. i saw the images several hours later. he was way ahead of the reporting here stateside. tel
direct redefining insurance united states of scandal with jake tapper tomorrow at nine on cnn. closed captioning bronchi by meso book.com mesothelial mom it s all we do with local offices throughout the country and does help you get the compensation you deserve, 800 to eight to 44, 44 that afternoon, i m fredricka whitfield in atlanta alongside my colleague christian amanpour in ukraine, will get to christmas jonathan, mohamed watching two major stories unfolding today, including a pivotal moment on the campaign trail in the us. south carolina, republican voters are racing to the polls today, aiming to pick their next presidential nominee, former governor nikki haley, also casting her ballot in her home state of south carolina. she s hoping to boost momentum on the trail as she challenges donald trump, former president is hoping another landslide victory tonight propels him to the nomination chris john here in kyiv, fredricka officials and people are also watching thi
force entirely focused on al. i the city of bakhmut, in ukraine, now seems to be pretty much entirely in russian hands. capturing it took almost a year and cost thousands of casualties and all for a place that, right from the start, military experts said didn t have any discernible strategic value. but there s no doubt that belatedly, the russians have learned to fight better. and nato s weapons aren t reaching ukraine in sufficient quantities yet. few expected this ceasefire to hold in any way. it was. the bbc correspondent james waterhouse has covered the war from its earliest stages. i caught up with him when he had just arrived in the city of dnipro to report on the fighting in southeastern ukraine. there isn t a single ukrainian city which is untouched by russia s latest tactic, really, and we thought its strategy of targeting ukraine s infrastructure would stop as the weather improved. but it s clear that the kremlin wants to sustain the pressure on both the ukrainian
plans for supermarkets to introduce a cap on the price of basic food items to help tackle the rising cost of living. now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson. hello, and thanks forjoining me here at the bbc s headquarters in central london. is there any sign yet of the much heralded counteroffensive by ukraine? for the west, in ukraine, if they were to go too early ahead of all of that hardware being in place, then we could see the front lines we see now in place for some time to come. after the g7 summit in hiroshima, is a chinese attack on taiwan more likely or less likely? i think for now, xi jinping has made the calculation that he simply can t afford to invade taiwan. and, should we lose sleep at night for fear that artificial intelligence, ai, is going to take over the world? we ll have to have systems in place to police it. - we almost need a new police force entirely focused on al. i the city of bakhmut, in ukraine, now seems to be pretty much entirely in russia