Hroza is located more than 30 kilometres 18 miles from The Front Line town of kupiansk, in an area where Russian Forces have been pushing to recapture territory they lost to ukrainian troops last year. The attack comes as Vladimir Putin has been speaking at a meeting in the black sea resort of sochi. Russias president again blamed the west for his invasion of ukraine. He said russia didnt start the 20 month long war against ukraine and is trying to bring it to an end. Translation since the beginning of the socalled counteroffensive, | this is the latest data. Sincejune fourth alone, the Ukrainian Army has lost over 90,000 men. These are irrecoverable losses. 557 tanks, almost 1900 armoured vehicles including various classes. Is it now convincing we have an understanding, what goes where. We understand what we need to do or what we need to add. We are calmly working to achieve our goals and im sure we will achieve them. Meanwhile president zelensky is at a European Summit in the spanish
Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Temperatures across the world in september were the warmest on record, breaking the previous high by a huge margin, according to the eu climate service. The heat is being driven by ongoing emissions of gases warming the atmosphere, as well as the Weather Event known as el nino. They say 2023 is now on track to be the warmest on record. Our climate editor, justin rowlatt, is here. This sounds very sobering . It is sobering. September was 0. 93 celsius warmer than the average global temperature for the month, so almost a whole degrees celsius, huge margin when you remember it is an average across the whole globe. Normally we would expect variations of a small fraction of a degree between years and it comes after, as you said, the hottest Northern Hemisphere summer on record. July we saw the hottest day, then the hottest week, then the hottest month ever recorded with scientist saying they thought it was almost certainly they thought it w
illnesses in children in the north of the country. beijing has attributed the increase to the lifting of covid restrictions. and hundreds of thousands of arrivals in the uk, a blow to time for a look at the business news now. we start with a stark warning from the international energy agency. in a new report, the global energy watchdog say the gas and oil industry needs to vastly cut its emissions to reach climate goals. the iea say the oill and gas sector will have to cut emissions two)by 60% by 2030 to keep global warming to an increase ofjust 1.5 centigrades, and by 75% to reach the 2050 net zero goal. the report was released ahead of the united nations climate summit, or cop28, which begins in dubai next week. the iea call this a moment of truth for the oil and gas industry. the moment of truth is for the oil and gas companies to decide if they are going to be partners in the fight against climate change or not. and some of the data that we have suggests that, for the mom
global energy watchdog. and it expects that ratio to continue to rise. but here is the thing, unless we begin to reduce our use of fossil fuels and quickly, we simply are not tackling the real problem. justin thank yom one of ukraine s top generals has said that his country s counter offensive against russia is not progressing as quickly as hoped, saying rapid results were practically impossible because of well prepared russian defences. ukraine says that since it launched its counter offensive in earlyjune, it has taken back more than 81 square miles of land, but russia still holds vast swathes of territory following its full scale invasion last february. our defence correspondent, jonathan beale, has been to the front line near bakhmut in eastern ukraine, to see how ukrainian troops are trying to advance. the bloody battle for