continue to flock here, where the king charles the third has held meetings with diplomats from the 1a countries that recognise him as head of state. also ahead on the programme. ukraine s military says its forces have tripled the amount of territory it has retaken from russia in a little over 48 hours. and in sweden, voting in the country s general election has ended with an exit poll indicating that the prime minister s party may win slightly more seats than rivals. hello and welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. the coffin of queen elizabeth is being taken on itsjourney to herfinal resting place. it left balmoral, where she died on thursday, and has now arrived in edinburgh. crowds gathered along the route, as the cortege made the 175 mile journey to the palace of holyroodhouse where the coffin will remain overnight. as that was happening, proclamations formally announcing the accession of king charles iii took place in cardiff, edi
the ukrainian soldiers here, to take cover under the trees. the russians are flying over these positions, trying to spot where they are. and novak djokovic reaches another wimbledon final, beating britain s cameron norrie. hello, welcome to the programme. twitter and elon musk are in an extraordinary stand off over his more than $40 billion deal to buy the social media company. the world s richest man wants to pull out of the deal, claiming he s not received the data he asked for about the number of fake or spam accounts on the platform. but twitter s board says it will sue mr musk to enforce the deal. shares of twitter fell 6% in extended trading over the news. here s our north america technology reporter james clayton. elon musk is essentially saying that when he put that offer in, he thought that there were more users that actually used twitter than there actually are. and, to be fair, there are a lot of spam accounts on twitter. twitter actually said yesterday that they d
scotland so here it is quite a bit cooler than yesterday. following on from that it is sunshine and showers but here in yorkshire we have some very high pollen levels today. and across southern scotland the showers could be heavy and thundery likewise in the far north east of england. the highest temperatures towards the eastern side of the uk but cooler thanit eastern side of the uk but cooler than it was yesterday in northern ireland. any showers that develop will decline this evening and we see patchy rain moving away from northern ireland and heading into northern england and north wales but largely dying out. clear skies for more southern parts of the uk but quite a one light with temperatures typically ten or 12i quite a one light with temperatures typically ten or 12 i mentioned high pollen levels today in yorkshire but we will see high levels more widely across england tomorrow as it is the peak of the grass pollen season for the post up some sunshine for more souther
may have to retreat to avoid being captured. now on bbc news, our world. on the 24th of february, russian president vladimir putin ordered a military invasion of neighbouring ukraine. reporter: , , ., ukraine. reporter: russian troops are closin: in reporter: russian troops are closing in on reporter: russian troops are closing in on the reporter: russian troops are closing in on the capital, - reporter: russian troops are closing in on the capital, and l closing in on the capital, and in the last few hours multiple exposures have been reported. the invasion trigger the largest refugee crisis in europe since the second world war, almost 6 million ukrainians have fled the country. more than half of those who have left are now in poland where local people are providing accommodation, food and other support. the population of warsaw is nearly a 20% in just two weeks. the mayor says they can t handle the millions more are expected to come here into poland. we are at capacity,
washington and many states to take the action needed. texas holds the unfortunate record forfour holds the unfortunate record for four of the most devastating tragic mass shootings out of the last ten in this country, so it is really a state where you have terribly weak laws, you have the proliferation of far too many guns and this is the consequence. harell harold but there are more guns than they ever should be and there are more guns and shootings. it strikes me that we did hearfrom the shootings. it strikes me that we did hear from the texas senator ted cruz who described the shooting as truly horrific but he said that gun reforms were not the way to prevent such crimes. he said that restricting the rights of law abiding citizens does not work, it is not effect if and does not prevent crime. effective. does not prevent crime. effective- does not prevent crime. effective. ., ., ., effective. california has those lows and it effective. california has those lows an