is lying in state at the vatican. a warning from the international monetary fund, it says a third of the world will be in recession this year. and a hearse carrying pele s coffin has made the journey from sao paulo to santos where the brazilian football legend will lie in state ahead of his funeral on tuesday. hello and welcome to the programme. ukraine says russia attacked kyiv with waves of explosive drones overnight, targeting critical infrastructure. the military said air defence forces shot down all 39 iranian made drones. but the mayor of kyiv, vitaly klitschko, said energy facilities were damaged, disrupting power and heating supplies. our correspondent hugo bachega is in the ukrainian capital kyiv and has the latest. so the mayor said one person was wounded when debris fell from a drone intercepted by the country s air defence forces. now, it was the second night in a row that the air raid alert sounded here in kyiv. people were told to go to shelters and obviously,
the world s first fully working sand battery is installed in finland, with developers calling it a major breakthrough for green energy. and england chase victory over india at edgbaston to win the fifth test. borisjohnson s decision to appoint chris pincher as deputy chief whip is facing further scrutiny as a former top civil servant at the foreign office, lord mcdonald writes to the parliamentary standards commissioner this morning, saying that borisjohnson was briefed in person about an investigation into chris pincher s conduct as a foreign office minister. downing street had previously claimed that the prime minister wasn t aware of any specific allegations against mr pincher when he was appointed in february. but the bbc learned last night that boris johnson and the foreign secretary at the time, dominic raab, both knew about the issue. mr pincher resigned as deputy chief whip last thursday and was suspended as a conservative party mp after being accused of groping two
Mirror reporter Matt Roper investigates the wave of private investment directed into cheap housing stock in Blackpool which is making the seaside town the epicentre of for-profit children's care
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