an endangered species in much of australia s east coast. hello and welcome to bbc news. the mayor of kyiv, vitali klitschko, has told the bbc his country will only enter peace talks after the last russian soldier has left ukraine . some ukrainian officials have expressed concerns their country may be pushed towards a peace deal with russia, as the war continues to put pressure on food and energy supplies. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, has meanwhile warned of what he called ukraine fatigue setting in. mrjohnson has just returned from a visit to kyiv on friday. our correspondent nick beake reports from kyiv. singing. the russians killed roman ratushny on the ninth ofjune. today, his father buried him, before returning to the front line. a funeral for a 24 year old who answered the call to defend his country. his grandmother, joined by hundreds who came to bid him farewell. with so many young lives being lost every day, some now ask whether ukraine should make con
only thing that we have to do now is stop cutting down trees, and the only thing that will do thatis and the only thing that will do that is stronger and better legislation, and we want a koala protection act. a bit like the bald eagle act for the united states. goodness me, the whole world loves koalas. why wouldn t you just do this? i have actually written to the new environment minister, and i ve said to her that i don t envy her herjob now, because our country has basically spoken to our politicians and said we care about climate change, we don t want any more fires, we don t want any more floods. we ve all been through hell in the last few years, and so have the koalas. it s time for our political masters to really get on with it.- for our political masters to really get on with it. and what do politicians really get on with it. and what do politicians say really get on with it. and what do politicians say to really get on with it. and what do politicians say to you - really
these poor little things have given us. they are so cute, how can anyone say that we shouldn t save them? you mentioned shouldn t save them? you mentioned how shouldn t save them? you mentioned how much - shouldn t save them? you mentioned how much they are loved. some of the more harrowing images that came out of the recent wildfires were of the damage done to koalas. what do australians, if you could tell us briefly, feel about protecting the future of the koala? ., ., ~ ~ ., protecting the future of the koala? ~ ., ~ , ., ., , koala? look, i know australians love koalas- koala? look, i know australians love koalas. our koala? look, i know australians love koalas. our foundation - love koalas. our foundation takes love koalas. ourfoundation takes no government money, so we survive on people who ring me up and go, i want to give you money because you are spreading the truth. no, our political leaders are too wedded to political donations from industry, and that has to stop. we
had not been resolved. network rail said the rmt were dismissing talks before they had even finished. more than 40,000 workers are due to walk out on tuesday, thursday and saturday. they are an icon of australia and known for their cute faces and fluffy grey fur, but koalas could one day be extinct, with the species now classed as endangered along much of australia s east coast. numbers of the marsupials are dwindling because of things like land clearing, bushfires, disease and drought. a report last year said koalas could completely disappear from the state of new south wales by 2050, and campaign groups say their numbers are going down across the entire country. for more on this and what can be done to save koalas, we can cross live to brisbane and join deborah tabart, who is the chair of the australian koala foundation. very good morning to you in australia. this sounds pretty grim. how bad is the picture? well, i think it s bad, because ten years ago when the koalas
organisation like ours, because i ve been in thisjob now for 33 years and i know who s who in the zoo, really, about what to be done. wejust got in the zoo, really, about what to be done. we just got to protect those trees, and you would think that would be simple. industry now, i think, is on notice across the world, isn t you cannot keep doing what you ve been doing. you ve had carte blanche for too long, and i was reflecting yesterday, goodness we ve done a lot of damage since the 50s. we have big machinery and we can blow things up and whatever. i ve been to places where there are koalas, coalmines and farmers working in harmony, because you go underground. so now open cut coal mines arejust go underground. so now open cut coal mines are just disastrous for koalas. so industry leaders, if they want australia to continue to have the $3 billion that comes to our shores with stuffed koalas and tourism, then industry is going tourism, then industry is going to have to be balanced out w