on the shameful treatment of disabled people. it is intolerable. if ukraine wants to be part of the western world, law abiding democracy, it can t write off children with disabilities. and england beat sweden 4 0 in the women s euros semi final giving them a chance to win a first ever major women s tournament. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. our top story for you today: scientists say there s compelling evidence that a market selling live animals in the chinese city of wuhan was the early epicentre of the covid 19 pandemic. it s a significant contribution to what s always been the dominant theory that the outbreak began with the coronavirus spreading from animals to humans at the so called wet market . this is the seafood wholesale market in wuhan. one of the studies just published in the journal science, says genetic information suggests there were two cross
investigators eric and halyna, exposing the abuse and neglect of disabled people. translation: there is nothing we can do to help this child. unfortunately, naturei has decided their fate. they re in pain. and you re not doing anything to help. teeth grinding this is a sound of the war you haven t heard. anna s teeth grinding anxiety hints at the hidden trauma of ukraine s disabled children. they are nervous, disorientated, and distressed. and they ve been dumped in a place that can barely cope. because of their disabilities, they re not treated as human beings. they are only kept alive here. these are teenage girls, brought here from an orphanage in the east to escape the fighting. what must be going through young minds like daria s. daria moans and she is blind. she can only hear what s going on around her. just as we came in here, we saw the children being given books to read, or at least to look at. but it appears that s probably been done for our benefit. the nurse say
like because it in effect puts a border down the irish sea. now on bbc news, it s time for political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than interrogation of someone whose political thinking shapes all of ours. this week my guest is a symbol of the modern labour party, a symbol if you like of a party of two eras. on the one hand, 13 years in power. on the other, 12 years of powerlessness. yvette cooper was once a young rising star of the new labour blair and brown years, but what followed was the wilderness years of opposition, summed up for many by the night on which her husband ed balls lost his seat, as a neighbour of hers in yorkshire. cooper ran to be labour leader againstjeremy corbyn and lost and lost badly. keir starmer brought her back to front line politics, asking her to become shadow home secretary. yvette cooper, welcome to political thinking. good to be here, nick. i m sorry to mention the powerlessne
good to be here, nick. i m sorry to mention the powerlessness! when you watch the tory infighting this week, who is going to be leader? and nobody says keir starmer. it s, will it bejeremy hunt, will it be borisjohnson? does it increase that sense of frustration, of not being in power? the frustration of not being able to do things is huge, and you re right, we ve had 12 years of this now. we are nearly going to have been as long out of power as we were in power. and yes, there s just this massive difference, and it is incredibly frustrating. i think it s also. it s frustrating in terms of all the things that you can do in government, but also frustrating watching them right now, because it feels like they are damaging everybody. we re going to talk about politics, as it were, in a while. but just talking about you, do you ever feel, as these years have passed on, years of opposition, maybe i had my moment, maybe it s time to do something else ? and seeing your husband ed
those named have until 5pm to respond ahead of its long awaited publication. energy company, eon, is warning that unless the government intervenes the number of its customers in fuel poverty could reach 40% by the autumn. it s a very, very significant impact and that s why we ve called upon the government to take more action. we do need more intervention in october and it has to be very substantial. the ukrainian government says it won t agree to a ceasefire with russia, that involves giving up territory in an apparent hardening of its position. a government medical adviser tells the bbc that cases of monkeypox are rising in the uk on a daily basis. professor of experimental medicine paul hunter explains why it s significant. the issue is that it is spreading between people in the uk, which we haven t seen in the west before to any great extent. and the last round of premier league games starts in half an hour s time. manchester city play aston villa, liverpool play wolves.