most households had a piano, an upright piano, and.and we were no exception, and so he would just sit down and play scottish traditional music. and of course, he left school at the age of 1a, and immediately started working on farms and he was the youngest of 13, so, you know, you can imagine the sort of scenario, and so he was always working. my mother, on the other hand, she could read music, but she didn t have a very good ear, so, in a way, it was the opposite. and i remember when she told the story whereby she was asked to play in the village, or if she would help out for the village church and play the organ there, because she was really, kind of, the only one who could maybe play a few hymns. and she said, oh, no, i really don t want to be doing this i m far too busy , and so on. and. but they pleaded with her and she said, well, i lljust do one sunday , and 36 years later she was still there. i went to a primary school that had 36 pupils in the entire school and
welcome to verified life, three hours of breaking stories in checking out the truth behind them. lots to actually dig into in today s verified, especially what is happening on the battlefield in ukraine in what appears to be the start of that counteroffensive. tf cells died in excess is switching to offensive action and kyiv says it is moving to a counteroffensive action and on defence as well in the south. ukrainian army has shown these images sing the forces are destroying russian positions in the direction of bakhmut, in contrast, russia s thing it is thwarting ukrainian attacks in the same region in releasing this video showing ukrainian armoured vehicles coming under heavy fire and moscow s since 250 ukrainian troops were killed and a number of armoured vehicles had been destroyed. the claims have not been destroyed. the claims have not been verified by the bbc and we ll hear from our verified teams later the hour. return to the maps is in the hour. return to the maps
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meanwhile, ukraine has denied responsibility. moscow s regional governor said, several drones had been shot down outside the city, and also pinned responsibility for the attack, on ukraine. this was vladimir putin in the last little while. asa as a response, the kyiv regime took as a response, the kyiv regime took a different path of frightening russia, fighting the citizens of russia, fighting the citizens of russia initiating residential buildings. of course, this is a clear sign of terrorist activity. firstly, i want to say that the rest make moscow air defences of work satisfactory although there s still some to do. we encountered the same in syria. it is just overcoming the airbase in moscow in the metropolis are incomparable. in general, it s clear what needs to be done to seal the air defence of the capital and we will do it. but i m not so worried about this as about the attempts to evoke a response from russia. after all, everything is designed for this purpose. they