shrank unexpectedly by 0.3% in august. manchester crown court hears how a nurse, accused of murdering babies on a neonatal ward, tried to kill a premature baby girl on two consecutive night shifts. after the latest russian attacks on ukraine, nato says sending air defence systems there is a top priority. blood supplies fall to a critically low level in england, prompting nhs blood and transplant to declare its first ever amber alert hospitals may have to postpone some elective surgery. and scientists successfully transplant tissue from a human brain to that of a newborn rat and say the hybrid organoids can not only play the 1970s video game, pong, but will also help with research into brain disorders. but will also help with research we but will also help with research will be talking live the we will be talking live to one of the experts involved. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister has said she ll absolutely stick to her promise not to cut public
across the continent. thanks forjoining us. in what is the fastest decision in eu history, the european commission has formally recommended candidate status for ukraine but with conditions. for ukraine this has been a long time ambition, and president zelensky was quick to react hailing it as an historic moment, which will bring victory in the war against russia closer . meanwhile president putin said he was against the idea because the eu wasn t a military blo, but couldn t see how it would benefit kyiv. here is commission president ursula von der leyen speaking in brussels. and we all know that ukrainians are ready to die for the european perspective. we want them to live with us the european dream. let s look at where ukraine is in its eu application. the application has broadly three phases. phase 1 is the application to become a candidate for eu membership. ukraine submitted their application in march. first they need the european commission to recommend the
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In britain in the past two years. Maria murray is the associate director of prevention and comunity engagement at the dogs trust and she explained to me just what sort of dog this is. Its very difficult to define what an xl bully is its not a breed that is recognised by the kennel club, so we have bull breeds of all descriptions coming through, but to actually define an xl bully is incredibly difficult. What do you make to the cause for this breed to be banned . I mean, the latest video that has gone viral around the globe is a really shocking image of a dog chasing after a girl, and two men who had tried to protect her. It is a terrifying video, i am a mother of a young daughter myself, so watching that was terrifying, and we absolutely agree that something needs to be done to protect the public. However, we feel that an all out ban on one particular breed is not the way forward. We have legislation such as that at the moment, it is not working, and to add more breeds to the list, whi