a ban on buy one get one free deals on unhealthy food in england is to be put on hold for a year to help families coping with the cost of living crisis. police in india have arrested two people after a fire destroyed an office building in delhi and killed at least 27 people. #upin # up in space, man. # bookmakers are predicting a rare good result for the uk at tonight s eurovision. but will it be enough to hold back the favourites, ukraine? hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. ukraine appears to have won the battle for its second biggest city, kharkiv according to the us thinktank, the institute for the study of war. it says russia has failed in its efforts to encircle the city, and now appears to be focused on withdrawing its troops safely across the border. but russian troops are intensifying their attacks in the donbas region, which is now seeing some of the heaviest fighting. our correspondent in lviv, joe inwood, told us more about the ba
police in india have arrested two people after a fire destroyed an office building in delhi and killed at least 27 people. #upin # up in space, man. # bookmakers are predicting a rare good result for the uk at tonight s eurovision. but will it be enough to hold back the favourites, ukraine? hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the mayor of kharkiv has told the bbc that the russians have withdrawn from the kharkiv city area in the direction of the russian border. he said said his city was no longer being shelled by the russians and people were gradually returning. the us think tank the insitute of the study of war earlier said russia had failed in its efforts to encircle the city, and now appears to be concentrating on getting its troops safely back across the russian border. russian troops are instead focusing their attacks in the donbas region, which is now seeing some of the heaviest fighting. our correspondent in lviv, joe inwood, told us mor
but warned that many residential areas were badly damaged or destroyed. our correspondentjoe inwood has the latest from lviv. a parting gift from russian forces in retreat. this used to be the palace of culture in a small town on the outskirts of kharkiv. translation: we were hit by rockets. three floors were breached. as you can see, the palace of culture is almost completely destroyed. it has nothing to do with military infrastructure. it s a civilian facility. it s a scene replicated right across ukraine s second city, much of which has been reduced to rubble. but kharkiv is known as a fortress city. in this invasion, it has earned that name. its defenders have resisted, and now repelled the russians. the battle for kharkiv, it seems, has been won. it s a very different story from that of mariupol, where russia seems confident enough of the victory to be redeploying troops to the donbas region. the ukrainian government says it wants to arm a million men for what is increas
the first to be removed under new immigration plans. meanwhile, russia has suspended electricity supplies to finland overnight following a threat over payment arrears. moscow has warned the country, with which it shares a i,300km border, will face retaliatory steps if it does decide to join the alliance. a formal decision to is expected to be made on sunday. i m joined now by eoin mcnamara, a research fellow at the finnish institute for international affairs in helsinki. really good to have you with us. let s talk about, first of all, the
of the baltic region. finland is expected tomorrow to formally announce its intention to join the western military alliance. russia and finland share a 1,300km border. the finnish president is said to have told vladimir putin in a phone call earlier today confirming helsinki s plans tojoin nato that russia s invasion of ukraine had altered his country s security environment. russian state media says mr putin said that a change in finland s foreign policy could be negative for bilateral relations. it comes as russia has suspended electricity supplies to finland overnight following a threat over payment arrears. earlier i spoke to eoin mcnamara from the finnish intistute of international affairs about the prospect of finland joining nato. finnish society is very well and very prepared for russian aggression. finland has been a border country of russia for many, many years now, and finnish public opinion has