grip of a severe heat wave with several countries experiencing sweltering conditions. hello. we begin in ukriane, where russia s launched its biggest wave of drone attacks on the country in months. ten regions were targeted, and at least three civilians were killed. this comes after a lull in russian attacks on civilian targets in recent months, which saw the capital kyiv go days without an attack. the southern city of odesa has also been targeted. russia has stepped up its aerial attacks ahead of an expected offensive by ukraine. a ukrainian general in bakhmut said russia had intensified its shelling of the devastated city too. russia s wagner group boss says moscow has agreed to his demands for more ammunition days after he threatened to withdraw his men from bakhmut. russian troops and fighters from wagner, a private military company, have been trying to capture bakhmut for months, despite the city s questionable strategic value. british foreign ministerjames cleverly wi
into its belt and road investment project. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and mid night in london. we begin in ukriane, where russia has launched its biggest wave of drone attacks on the country in months. ten regions were targeted, and at least three civilians were killed. this comes after a lull in russian attacks on civilian targets in recent months which saw the capital, kyiv, go days without an attack. the southern city of odesa has also been targeted. russia has stepped up its aerial attacks ahead of an expected offensive by ukraine. a ukrainian general in bakhmut said russia had intensified its shelling of the devastated city too. russia s wagner group boss says moscow has agreed to his demands for more ammunition days after he threatened to withdraw his men from bakhmut. russian troops and fighters from wagner, a private military company, have been trying to capture bakhmut for months despite the city s questionable strategic value. british foreign secret
britons trapped in the country, have talked about feeling abandoned by the uk government. we ll hear live in a moment from one british national who s just got out and hear from another who s still in khartoum. but the rush to get diplomatic staff and civilians out of sudan has gathered pace. the european union says it s managed to extract more than a thousand of its citizens, with france taking the lead in the operation. emmanuel macron said the evacuations on sunday and monday had extracted nearly 400 citizens and diplomats from the country. the dutch military have also played a role in the airlift. germany deployed three planes to move people tojordan. italy and spain have also evacuated citizens, with the spanish mission including people from argentina, colombia, ireland, portugal and poland. others are trying to leave by road, with convoys of buses and coaches heading across land to port sudan on the red sea, as well as north to the border with egypt. turkey has evacuated
that he heading our way? that s a very good question. i ll answer that question later. iberia stands out like a source and temperatures and grenade are currently 35 degrees, 39 would be a record temperature for april. it s going to be the peak of the heat probably today, andalusia a popular holiday spot, people may be heading there over the next few days. it s not going to be quite as hot, not as hot as it is at the moment and still a drought there and it s going to stay dry. here at home we are seeing rain developing particularly coming in from the south where in scotland temperatures are still only 7 8 in the north of the country. could make 15 or 16 in england. this evening rain around in many areas, heavy for a while and eastern parts of england but the worst of the rain just moves away out into the north sea. it becomes a bit drier in most places later and there will be a lot of cloud so a mild night, milder than it s been of late across a good part of scotland. into fir
The taliban have now banned Women In Afghanistan from working for non Governmental Organisations saying they are breaking strict dress codes. Just days ago the taliban barred women from studying at university. You are watching bbc news. Now its time for weather world. This time on weather world we are at Raf Coningsby which hit the uks highest Temperature Record this summer. And i will find out how Severe Weather effects operations here. I am here at the uks National Meteorological archive and i will find out how the new Record Temperature and all Weather Observations are used to paint a picture of the uk and the worlds changing climate. If we want to understand the climate of the future, we need to understand the climate now and the climate going back into the past. All these Sleeping Bags and tents are for people in pakistan still homeless after a devastating flood. I will report on the bigger storms of the year and look at what happened after Weather Disasters strike. I am at Raf Co