in the donetsk region within the last hour russia s military defence has confirmed its troops have left lyman. millions of people will pay more for gas and electricity from today as the new energy price cap comes into force. it doesn t apply in northern ireland. a man held in iran for nearly five years on spying charges, before being released alongside nazanin zaghari ratcliffe, says he s dedicating his london marathon run to the people of iran and its prisoners. we ll be speaking to anoosheh ashoori live. do stay with us on bbc news. 0n the more than 50,000 rail workers are taking industrial action today, causing the biggest strike disruption on the railways this year. 0nly around 11% of the usual saturday timetable will be able to run. .in . in parts of wales there are only trains around cardiff. there are no connections to the south west of finland. across scotland and england board and many parts of england too. south west of england. members of four unions are taking
is exactly the wrong thing to do, isn t it? that causes disruption to our passengers. it loses us money as an industry. it makes it harder to resolve the pay deal. in the last hour, the russian news agency ria, quoting the defence ministry in moscow, said russian troops have now left the strategic town of lyman, in eastern ukraine. you may recall we have been reporting through much of the day that if there was an attempt to encircle the russian troops in the town. earlier, the ukrainian military said its troops were inside the town. the released pictures which we weren t able to verify. it showed soldiers unveiling a flight in a sign saying welcome to lyman. moscow announced the annexation of donetsk in the east of ukraine which have been occupied by russian troops or russian sympathisers in the previous ukrainian population. the minister spokesman,
this is bbc news. i m shaun ley, and these are the headlines at 4pm. large parts of britain s rail network grind to a halt as 50,000 workers stage a walk out in the biggest rail strike so far. the action is getting stronger, and the public are behind us, so we are committed to it. we want a resolution. if the government can change their attitude, we can get a resolution very quickly. what we require is a change to discuss meaningful reform. we want to give our staff a pay increase, but it has to be self funding from within the industry because we can t afford to keep taking taxpayers money. the ukrainian military says it has regained control of the strategic eastern town of lyman
in the donetsk region within the last hour russia s military defence has confirmed its troops have left lyman. millions of people will pay more for gas and electricity from today as the new energy price cap comes into force. it doesn t apply in northern ireland. a man held in iran for nearly five years on spying charges, before being released alongside nazanin zaghari ratcliffe, says he s dedicating his london marathon run to the people of iran and its prisoners. we ll be speaking to anoosheh ashoori live. do stay with us on bbc news. 0n the