welcome to bbc news. i m nuala mcgovern. our top stories: russia strikes a defiant note: president putin accuses western powers of provoking humanitarian catastrophes around the world. on a surprise visit to kyiv, britain s borisjohnson announces a military training programme that he says could change the war. police in brazil have confirmed one of the two bodies found in the remote amazon rainforest is that of the missing british journalist dom phillips. the heat goes on: parts of europe are on alert this weekend with temperatures still on the rise. # be running up that road. # be running up that hill. and running up that hill, slowly: the pop single that s gone to number one 37 years after it was first released.
this is bbc news. i m nuala mcgovern. our top stories: russia strikes a defiant note, president putin accuses western powers of provoking humanitarian catastrophes around the world. on a surprise visit to kyiv, britain s borisjohnson announces a military training programme that he says could change the war. police in brazil have confirmed one of the two bodies found in the remote amazon rainforest is that of the missing british journalist dom phillips. the heat goes on parts of europe are on alert this weekend with temperatures still on the rise. and running up that hill slowly. the pop single that s a global number one 37 years after it
this is bbc news. the headlines: russia strikes a defiant note: president putin accuses western powers of provoking humanitarian catastrophes around the world. on a surprise visit to kyiv, britain s borisjohnson announces a military training programme that he says could change the war. heavy fighting is continuing in the east of ukraine and the war is taking a terrible toll. hundreds of ukrainian troops and civilians are being killed or injured every day, mainly as a result of russian shelling. ukraine s medical services are under enormous pressure and one british surgeon, david nott, who has decades of experience treating war injuries, has been on the frontline, helping to train ukrainian doctors. our correspondent wyre davies has sent this report. the other thing to do is to look at the light, look up here. at a hospital in eastern ukraine, well within range of russian rockets, british surgeon david nott calmly carries out a complicated skin graft, saving the leg of a woman who suffe
this is bbc world news. the latest headlines: russia strikes a defiant note: president putin accuses western powers of provoking humanitarian catastrophes around the world. on a surprise visit to kyiv: britain s borisjohnson announces a military training programme that he says could change the war. former us president donald trump has lashed out at the congressional committee investigating his role in the january 6 attack of the capitol in 2021. speaking at a republican event in the state of tennessee, he criticised his former vice president, saying mike pence lacked what he called the courage for refusing to carry out a plan to overturn the 2020 election results. but i never called mike pence a wimp. i never called him a wimp. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a chance to be, frankly, historic.
welcome to bbc news. i m nuala mcgovern. our top stories: russia strikes a defiant note president putin accuses western powers of provoking humanitarian catastrophes around the world. on a surprise visit to kyiv britain s borisjohnson announces a military training programme that he says could change the war. police in brazil have confirmed one of the two bodies found in the remote amazon rainforest is that of the missing british journalist, dom phillips. the heat goes on parts of europe are on alert this weekend, with temperatures still on the rise. # still running up that road, running up that hill. #. and, running up that hill, slowly.