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
schneider live at the supreme court with this breaking news coming in. jessica, tell us more about this latest ruling on religious liberty. reporter: this is another decision from this court that has the effect here of eroding the barrier between church and state. the court in a 6-3 decision saying a school s concerns about coercion of students and its desires to keep its public school free from these outward displays of religion, the court saying that s outweighed by a coach s free speech rights. the court said they really viewed the coach s speech on the 50-yard line where he played as personal and private speech and they likened it to a phone call on school grounds or checking email. but the dissent here, interestingly, included a picture of just how much of a public spectacle this had become with the coach being crowded by the students as he prayed. the coach had been litigating this for years. he lost repeatedly in the lower courts. coach kennedy just released a statem
undermine the european union, tens of billions of dollars a year of assistance is not a very large price. imagine the price and terms of economics but also in terms of casualties if nato has to defend estonia or latvia from kremlin aggression. this is actually. some people understand it, many do not, and the commentary on the war is often very superficial, because you do not look at putin s motivation. john herbst, thank you so much. thank you forjoining us. let s take a look at some of the stories in the headlines in the uk. police says the investigation into the 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 in liverpool. a 35 year old man, joseph nee,
russian economy that was originally envisioned. only so much that can be when there s big buyers on the market. ambassador, the nato secretary general announced this morning that the alliance that s going to be increasing the number of high-readiness forces in the eastern part of its territory from about 40,000 to well over 300,000, how significant is this? this is a prudent measure to defend our east european nato allies from kremlin aggression. moscow is threatening lithuania because they are cutting off sanctioned items from the russian mainland to kaliningrad, which goes to lithuania. also seems just like a show of numbers just how the whole security apparatus, the security structure of europe has completely changed and
there would be even greater nato support, not just for finland but also for ukraine. and putin s had a very bad six weeks as a result of the invasion, and it s only getting worse for him. and here s increasingly isolated, right? extraordinarily so. i mean, he had real soft power only through buying politicians and businessmen in europe. that s almost all gone now as a result of this major invasion. the change in especially german policy from one of kind of appeasement to resolute defense against kremlin aggression is particularly damaging to his foreign policy and good for the west. so i don t think he has much in the way of nasty cards to play because it would just have even further bad consequences for him. so then we look ahead, so what could the potential outcome be? we know that ukraine says russia is aiming to declare a victory one month from today, may 9th, a russian holiday.