including addressing the threat posed by the democratic people s republic of korea. warnings from doctors that monkeypox could have a massive impact on access to sexual health services. australia goes to the polls in an election pitting two political veterans for the country s top job. and could this be the first of a record breaking heatwave across europe? hello and welcome if you are watching here in the uk or around the world. relations were already difficult after finland applied tojoin nato prompted by the war in ukraine. now moscow has taken action against its neighbour over energy supplies. russia s energy giant, gazprom has switched off gas deliveries it says finland is refusing to comply with a demand that it pay for energy in roubles. meanwhile, the british foreign secretary has said she wants to see ukraine s neighbour moldova armed with nato standard military equipment, to guard it against potential russian aggression. in ukraine itself, russian forces are int
elsewhere in the conflict we have reports of increased shelling in the donbas, the eastern region where the ukrainians are holding out and defending in trenches against russian advances. we have reports of ukrainian counteroffensive near pat cave and finally reports of ukrainian shells this destroying an alcohol factory in russian territory. we are seeing increasing incidences of russian of the war finding itself on russian territory, something people did not seem to be expecting or finding themselves comfortable with. as we heard, russia s energy giant, gazprom has witched off gas deliveries to finland for refusing to comply with a demand that it pay for energy in roubles. to tell us more, we are joined by amelinda lindberg a research fellow at the stockholm environment institute. thank you forjoining us today. the