welcome to bbc news. we start here in the uk, where millions of people face more travel chaos, as the biggest rail strike in 30 years continues. today s planned walk out by railway workers has gone ahead, after talks between the rmt union and railway employers broke down. the first day of industrial action on tuesday saw half of the rail network closed and 80% of services suspended. our transport correspondent katy austin reports. large parts of britain s railway have come to a halt again, overall, only about 20% of services will run, although in some places it is less. northern will operate fewer than 10%. where trains are running, services will start late and finish early. camelot lives in cheltenham where there are no trains at all today. she can t get to her part time job near bath, teaching english as a foreign language. if i can t get to work i won t have the income to face all the extra energy bills, etc, so i do need to get to work. five minutes do need to get to wo
Tonight, amidst increasing International Pressure on israel over the killing of seven aid workers, the first call by Benjamin Netanyahus main rival in the Emergency Government for elections within months. The Israel Defense force promises an independent investigation into the aid convoy kiilings. Well ask an idf spokeman how it can be independent if its conducted by former idf personnel. They come to their own conclusions. They are independent of the Chain Of Command. They can rule whatever they see fit, based on their professional understanding of the reality. Well be asking the team leader for save the childrens Gaza Response what she makes of that, and speaking to the diplomatic correpondent at the times of israel about the prospect of an early election. Also tonight is the market in the uk for Electric Cars running out of charge . Well examine the data and ask whether theres a risk of our net zero Journey Running off the road. 75 years tomorrow, nato was founded, out of the ashes o
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this time last year, we were seeing clear signs that ukraine s much heralded summer offensive wasn t doing very well. russia had had plenty of time to prepare its defences and ukraine simply couldn t break through them. the next phase, inevitably, would be a russian spring offensive, after the snow and mud of the winter gave way to firmer ground under the tracks and wheels of the tanks and armoured personnel carriers. ukraine s supporters around the world were nervous. might this be the moment when russia came crashing back, recapturing the ground it had lost and even maybe threatening kyiv, the ukrainian capital? the delays in getting the big us support package through seemed to make things much worse. and yet it hasn t happened. russia has made some gains, admittedly, but there s been no actual breakthrough. the bbc ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse, is back in london briefly, and i asked him for his view of what was happening. after ukraine weathered that initialstor