First line of russian defences and part of the south. Now mine fields have been blocking the troops for weeks. That means when they are blocked, of course they are vulnerable to russian shelly. Its been dangerous, but careful my Clearing Operation has been making it where they can advance. Ukraine says gains have been made in the south and have expanded their units towards the town of tokmak, Logistics Centre for russian forces. In the last hour or two we have these pictures into the newsroom of zelensky there visiting with troops on the front line. This is it donetsk. I spoke to drjenny mathers. She is a Senior Lecturer at the department of International Politics of the Aberystwyth University in wales. I asked just how significant this is. I think its potentially very significant both symbolically and in material terms because i think weve known for the last several months that the russian defences were very formidable. They would be difficult for the ukrainians to get through, and th
There has been growing concern in washington that the deal was being worked on by russia and north korea, it followed a visit to north korea by the Russian Defence minister. And so now in the last few hours we have confirmation from officials in washington that it is believed as you say that kim jong un and Vladimir Putin will meet at some point at a place to be decided it seems or at least revealed in russia over the next few weeks. A very high stakes meeting, they had met before 2019 was the last time in russia but clearly the situation is different now. We know that russia needs more Artillery Ammunition with very few friends around the world. It is perhaps telling they are turning to a pariah state, like north korea, too it seems source this weaponry that they crucially need to pursue the war in ukraine. That would not be one sided, what we understand and this is been reported by the new york times, this would come at a price and the price for north korea would be advanced technolo
To wake up to. The sunrise will be coming up in the next 20 minutes. We are here for a serious reason. Not just to enjoy what promises to be a lovely day. We are discussing a topic which matters an awful lot to you at home. Water quality. The amount of sewage in our water. This morning we will hear from the Water Companies. We hearfrom the Environment Secretary, Therese Coffey. We will hear from campaigners. And we would love to hearfrom campaigners. And we would love to hear from you as well. We will let you know how to get in touch throughout breakfast. Because we have a big bbc investigation today, it has found that what looks like the Water Companies illegally discharging raw Sewage Hundreds Of Times Last year. Our team has seen analysis. They have looked at data from three of the largest Water Companies, times, wessex and Southern Water. It appears to show that On 400 Spills Last year, lasting thousands of hours, sewage was released, not during wet weather, storms, heavy rain and
Yesterday. And also, if youre to going anybody at to going headbutt anybody at football, really dont want football, you really dont want it to be roy keane, do you. 7 it to be roy keane, do you . Well have your latest and well have your latest Weather Forecast on duty this morning. Alex burkill , hello. Morning. Alex burkill, hello. A little bit of mist and fog around first thing this morning, but otherwise plenty of sunshine and temperatures even and temperatures rising even further as we go through the week. Ill have more later. So it was first day back at school yesterday. Well, not for school yesterday. Well, not for school kids really, but for mps at the houses of parliament and Gillian Keegan amongst the stories fighting to keep her cabinet position this morning after she apologised for claiming she was doing a good job. But she said stronger than that actually. But she was that actually. But she was unaware that she was being recorded. I just want to say , recorded. I just want
Lets start with the story thats dominated the uk Political Agenda for the last few days. Rishi sunak says its Utterly Wrong to blame him forfailing to tackle the issue of unsafe concrete in school buldings. As thousands of children return to classrooms today after the summer break, its emerged that more than a hundred schools in england and scotland will be closed or partially shut. Its over Safety Concerns about what is known as raac a type of concrete, thats known to be at risk of crumbling. Our Political Editor chris mason reports on a busy first day back for mps. You probably hadnt heard of it until the other day, but this stuff concrete that can get crumbly is building into a political mess. Did rishi sunak, when he was chancellor, walk away from repairs happening sooner . The man who used to be the Department For Educations most senior Civil Servant reckons he did. I was absolutely amazed to see that the decision made by the government was to halve the School Rebuilding programme