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of grain from occupied areas of ukraine as some countries grapple with shortages. one woman has died and a man is in hospital with life threatening injuries following a gas explosion that destroyed a house in birmingham and damaged at least three others. former prime minister sirjohn major is giving evidence at a public inquiry looking into how thousands of people were infected with hiv or hepatitis c through contaminated blood in the 70s and 80s. suffered incredibly bad luck. and in sport we ll be live at wimbledon as the first day of the tournament is under way. novak djokovic is on centre court now and he ll be followed by emma raducanu. and then andy murray. welcome to the programme. good afternoon and welcome. the leaders of the g7 group of nations have promised they will stand with ukraine for as long as it takes as they announced they would step up sanctions on russia. president zelenskyjoined the summit remotely, and told the leaders he needed more weapons and air
mps consider fresh attempts to force him from power. a third day of strike action on the uk s rail network only a fifth of train services are expected to run. now it s time for dateline with kasia madera. hello and a very warm welcome to dateline london. i m kasia madera. it s very good of you to be with us today. this week, we re discussing the us supreme court overturning a 50 year old ruling that legalised abortion nationwide and look at its implication for millions of american women. we ll also be discussing the aftermath of the recent by elections here in the uk and will be asking what the losses for the conservative party mean for the future of boris johnson and his government, and we re also going to investigate allegations that russia is deporting captured ukrainians, including children. today for dateline london, we re joined by the uk s veteran political commentator, steve richards, also joining us, ned temko from the christian science monitor and we welcome vera
in britain have insisted that prince charles remains politically neutral , following a report that he has strongly criticised government plans to send some asylum seekers to rwanda in central africa. an unnamed source told the times newspaper that prince charles has described the policy as appalling . now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson. hello, and thanks forjoining me here at the bbc s central london headquarters for unspun world, the programme which provides straight answers from the bbc s array of experts worldwide to the important questions of the moment. is the west supplying enough weapons to ukraine to help it win the war? or can russia hang on and declare victory? russia has huge resources, and in a war of attrition, russia can sustain that for probably longer than ukraine can. things seem to have gone terribly wrong with the rainbow nation of south africa. why is that? corruption levels in this country have been so rampant, it has actually reached propor
Terms of a cabinet meeting, we have been told on the agenda is an update on the economy. Clearly, that doesntjustify on the economy. Clearly, that doesnt justify the levels on the economy. Clearly, that doesntjustify the levels of frenetic activity that now appear to be going on behind the scenes. All Rishi Sunak Has said is repeating his claim that the General Election will be in the second half of this year, that is only a0 days away. Normally when we get to this point the advisers and people who work in the advisers and people who work in the heart of Downing Street would be giving us a tap on the shoulder or saying do not talk about that too much, we dont really think that is happening. That has not happened today, there has been no guidance to us to stop talking about it at all and here we are in Downing Street expecting something to happen. Whenever that election is called, take us through what has to happen until we get to election day, because there are various things that have