flying overjapan and taiwan. a new development in the uk s most notorious racist murder the killing of stephen lawrence. the bbc is naming a suspect. and eltonjohn closes this year s glastonbury. he did it in a record breaking way. we have all the reaction. first, we start in russia after those extraordinary events over the weekend. in the last half hour or so, we have been told to expect statements from vladimir putin. that information coming from various news agencies, we will keep across that for you if and when he does speak, we will of course bring them to you. we have, however, already heard from the head of the wagner group, yevgeny prighozhin. in his statement, made in an audio message, he shed some light on what happened over the weekend. his aim, he says, wasn t to overthrow the government when he took mercenary soldiers up through russia. he does admit shooting down russian jets through russia. he does admit shooting down russianjets in retaliation, he claims, for
in a moment, we ll hearfrom our eastern europe correspondent, sarah rainsford in warsaw, but first let s get the latest from our international editor, jeremy bowen, who s in kyiv. anything bad for president putin and russia good as good as far as the ukrainians are concerned, from president zelenskyy all write down through his chain of command. but what has to be remembered is that problems in russia do not translate automatically or rapidly into advances on the battlefield for the ukrainian army. since they started their offensive earlier on this month, they have recaptured a number of villages from the russians. but what they have not managed to do yet, they haven t really tried either, is to make those vital tactical breakthroughs that would be necessary if they want to change the course of the war, which is of course of the war, which is of course their objective, and natal s as well, the people giving them the
best of natal s achievements. that is not enough for rafa. with the clock ticking past one o clock in the morning, deep into the bed, after five hours of brilliant tennis he did it, a 21st grand slam title for an adult. after everything he has faced in the build up and it will certainly go down as one of his best. austin halewood, bbc news. 21 grand slam titles. an amazing achievement. now it s time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas hello. while many people are still picking up the pieces from storm malik, the weather s set to cause more disruption later today as storm corrie moves in from the northwest. before it arrives much of the uk seeing quite a dry, quiet sort of day, some sunshine holding on all day towards the south and the east, but cloud and rain
35 strike fighters to the region, to augment natal s enhanced air mission, 400 personnel from combat team will be arriving in lithuania in the days to come. united states commitment to article five, an attack on one is an attack on all, that commitment is sacrosanct, and as president biden repeated to the american people in the state of the union addressjust a american people in the state of the union address just a few days ago, we will defend every inch of nato territory if it comes under attack. no one should doubt our readiness, no one should doubt our resolve. 0ver no one should doubt our resolve. over the past several weeks, i authorised allies to provide us defence equipment to our ukrainian partners, lithuania stepped up with anti aircraft missiles, m 72 tank weapons and other supplies to help the extraordinary courageous