Checks on borrowers, particularly those in financial difficulties, as a report by the regulator is published this morning. I will have more on that a little later. In Sport England are into the semi finals of the european championships. Jodie taylor scored the winner, as the Lionesses Beat france 1 0. And carol has the weather. Good morning. Todays the day of sunshine and showers, especially in central and Northern Areas. They will be fewer and further between them were yesterday. That leads us into a showery start to the week. Good morning. First, our main story thousands of extra Mental Health workers are to be recruited by the nhs in england. The Health Secretary, jeremy hunt, said the aim is to treat an extra one Million People by 2021. The Royal College of nursing has questioned how so many staff can be hired and trained in such a short space of time. Here is more from our Health Correspondent dominic hughes. Ministers in england have already acknowledged the treatment offered to
crimes, allying himself with groups in lyria and syria. leaving the city in ruins. recruiting thousands of convicts from russian prisons to fight. today, ukrainian troops appearing to seize on the disarray, preparing occupied russians in the south and east of the country. president zelenskyy s spokesman sitting down to discuss the dramatic events in russia. given what we ve seen happening in russia, do you believe we re now at the beginning of the end of the war in ukraine. he told me, without a doubt, it s the beginning of the end, but the problem is this end can last for quite some time. tonight, wagner fighters seen celebrating as they pulled out. prighozhin cheered like a conquered hero. but russians left trying to understand what just happened, and ukrainians, what this means
and ardent fighters coming out of russia s elite forces, the special operations forces, and the arab one forces. it is quite a capable force. during the war with ukraine, it amplifies its footprint by recruiting thousands and thousands of troops from prisons in russia and then having those troops fight and many of them, frankly, die in the donbas and eastern ukraine, most notably in the battle of bakhmut. is one of the sources of recent tension the fact that the russian conventional military has sought to bring wagner, this witch s brew of both special forces and prisoners, under its umbrella, and prigozhin has resisted that? you know, it s i would say for my perspective, prigozhin and the pncs, wagner, in particular, were always kind of extensions of the ministry of
against evil for the sake of our children s future, the letter reads, calling on the russian authorities to revisit the case. visiting the but it is uncertain if wagner will continue to enjoy kremlin support will have any further impact either on or off the front lines. mhm. well, erin the wagner boss, yevgeny precaution has been incredibly useful to the kremlin recruiting thousands of troops for the frontline. now he denies having any political ambitions. but this figure who once lurked in the shadows is now increasingly in the public eye. it s not clear whether the kremlin is encouraging that all military tolerating it. alright matthew. thank you very much live from moscow tonight. i want to bring in cristo grozav, now the lead russia investigator for belling cat, of course, he helped navalny alexei navalny, the opposition leader in moscow, exposed who was behind his poisoning. and, of course,
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