good evening and welcome to bbc news. borisjohnson has insisted that questions over his leadership have been settled and that he will lead the conservative party into the next general election. his comments follow the tories defeat in two by elections this week. speaking to the bbc from rwanda, where he s attending a commonwealth meeting, he said people were heartily sick of questions about his conduct and that a psychological transformation of his character would not happen. earlier, i spoke to lucy fisher, who s chief political commentator at times radio. she told me she thinks mrjohnson is trying to distance himself from the byelection results. in the immediate wake of these two rather disastrous by election defeats, we had the prime minister try and link the discontent of tory voters or voters in those seats to the cost of living crisis. this weekend, he has moved the narrative on slightly, almost suggesting it s his mps, possibly the media, at part to blame with what he
fully occupying the ukrainian city of severodonetsk a key location in the war in the east of the country. ukraine s army has already pulled its troops out from there. let s go live now to our correspondent, joe inwood, in the capital, kyiv. a significant moment? yes, a significant a significant moment? yes, a significant moment a significant moment? yes, a significant moment but - a significant moment? yes, a| significant moment but maybe a significant moment? yes, a - significant moment but maybe not a surprising one, given ukrainian said they were withdrawing forces and we understand they have gone across this crucial river to the city of look assurance. president zelensky said this was a difficult moment both morally and emotionally and he also spoke about 45 cruise missiles fired into his country over the last 20 for hours. what is interesting as many were fired from belarus, their northern neighbour, not officially involved in the water. there are fears in kyiv they could