a strong resistance to the russian forces, we have a special report from the front line. bin strikes in scotland a further 13 local authorities take action from today. and the newborn endangered baby elephant which is putting hope in the hearts of conservationists and coming up on the bbc news channel: rangers attempt of the champions league for the first time in more danny beck. for the first time in more than a decade. they start the second leg of their play off 2 2 against psv eindhoven. good evening. the chief constable of merseyside police murder of olivia pratt korbel is progressing at pace. the nine year old was shot on monday evening, by a masked attacker who d burst into her home. a 35 year old man, joseph nee, who s thought to have been the intended target of the shooting, has been arrested. the gunman is still at large. our correspondent danny savage is at the scene. it is almost 48 hours since the horrific events in the street, it is still cordoned off but there i
with the latest. also in the programme: in the uk, police in liverpool arrest a man who was targeted by a gunman in a shooting that left a 9 year old girl dead. and we ll be live from florida where democrats have picked charlie crist to take on republican heavyweight ron desantis in the upcoming race for governor. we start in ukraine, which is marking two important dates. six months since the start of the russian invasion and 31 years since its independence, after the fall of the soviet union. this is in the ukrainian capital. while traditionally we d see a military parade today there are ukrainian tanks and seized russian military hardware on display. and we saw the ukrainian president and the first lady laying flowers at the wall of remembrance in kyiv honouring those killed defending the country. here s mr zelensky. translation: we only care about our land, we will fight for it until the end. we have been holding strong for six months. it s tough but we have clenched
a nine year old girl dead. olivia pratt korbel died on monday night after two men, one armed with a gun, ran into her house. joseph nee, a former drug dealer and believed to be the target of the attack, has been arrested. the police are appealing for more information. and a fine of £1,000 faces anyone who breaches a hosepipe ban imposed by thames water in the south of england from today. coming up on the bbc news channel rangers seek to make the group stages of the champions league for the first time in over ten years. good evening. at least 22 people have been killed and around 50 others injured in a russian strike on a railway station in the east of ukraine. it comes exactly six months after russia launched its full scale invasion of the country. the head of the un antonio guterres said it was a sad and tragic milestone . the conflict has had a huge human cost the un says there have been more than 5,500 thousand civilian deaths, but the true number is likely to be far m
be sent back to myanmar. and a helping hand for graduates. president biden cancels $10,000 of student debt for millions of americans. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in ukraine, where the country s president, volodymyr zelensky, says a russian missile strike on a rail station has killed at least 22 people and wounded dozens more. mr zelensky had previously warned that russia might do something cruel to disrupt ukraine s independence day which coincidentally fell on the same day as the six month anniversary of the invasion. this is the current state of play in the country with russia controlling ukrainian territory in the south and east. the southern front, around the occupied city of kherson, is where ukraine says it is planning a counter offensive. from there, our correspondent quentin sommerville sent this report. once more into the line of fire an