as the cost of living crisis deepens, we look at different approaches adopted in some european countries to ease the pain for consumers. we start in ukraine. a team of united nations inspectors has visited the zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which has been under russian control for six months. this is the moment they arrived. it wasn t an easy journey. this area is close to the front line and the inspectors were forced to stop a checkpoint for over three hours. the inspectors are from the un s international atomic energy agency, the iaea. some have already left, including the director general. here s what he said. we are not going anywhere. the iaea is now there, it s at the plant and it s not moving. it s going to stay there. we are going to have a continued presence there at the plant with some of my experts and of course now we have with my team a lot of work in terms of a detailed analysis of some of the more technical aspects of what we saw. this map shows you just how c
is at the plant and is not moving. it s going to stay there. a review into failings at nhs maternity units in nottingham launches, with a call for affected families to come forward. tributes this evening for the star of the breakfast sofa bill turnbull, who s died at the age of 66. good evening. merseyside police have revealed that two guns were used in the shooting that killed nine year old olivia pratt korbel. olivia was shot in her home last week as her mother tried to stop a gunman entering their house. detectives have now released cctv of the gunman running from the scene. a 35 year old man who was the target of the attack and was on parole, is still being treated in hospital and will be sent back to prison when he s discharged. our north of england correspondentjudith moritz reports from liverpool. running away from the horror he caused, this is the man who used two guns to shoot a nine year old child dead. moments after the murder, he disappeared into the darkness. the
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
millions of households are urged to turn off their lights and appliances to tackle an energy crisis. and in central africa, we ve a special report on the race to stop the plunder of rich peatlands releasing damaging carbon dioxide. welcome to bbc news. we begin in russia. one of president vladimir putin s closest advisers, the foreign minister sergei lavrov, has told the bbc that russia has not invaded ukraine and he s repeated the official line from the kremlin that there is no war, but it s a special military operation . mr lavrov has been at the heart of power in russia for over 20 years and represented the country on the international stage for nearly two decades. earlier, he spoke to our russia editor steve rosenberg. hello, thank you. hello. it was the first time sergei lavrov had agreed to meet since moscow launched its offensive in ukraine. russia s government has created a parallel reality. invasion? what invasion? translation: we didn t invade ukraine. - we declare