fighting intensifies around the ukrainian city of kherson, as kyiv steps up the counter offensive, trying to recapture the southern city from russian forces. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union, has died at the age of 91. he oversaw economic reforms known as perestroika and political ones known as glasnost or openness which led to the break up of the soviet union in 1991 and the end of the cold war. russian president vladimir putin has expressed deep sympathies . our russia editor steve rosenberg looks back at a historic life. he was the kind of russian leader of the world had never seen. mikhail gorbachev smiled, he was relaxed. in the west, he acquired almost pop star status for helping to end the cold war. but at home, it was a different story. born in the days of dictator josef stalin, mikhail gorbachev bec
age of 91. he meant to modernise the soviet union, his reform led to a series of events which led to the country s collapse and ended the cold war. that s it for now, stay with us on bbc news. hello there. i m sure many people have been making the most of this generally dry weather with some sunshine we had a lot of sunshine actually around on tuesday, and we ve got more of the same for today. we start, though, with temperatures on the whole in double figures early on wednesday morning. but it ll be a bit colder, i think in the northeast of scotland, could be down to 3 4 celsius here. now many places will start wednesday, dry and sunny, but there s cloud coming in off the north sea to bring a few showers into the far north of england, and with the cloud bubbling up in eastern england, there could be the odd, light shower here. but on the whole, it ll be dry for england and wales. quite windy in the south, especially through the english channel. not as windy for scotland and northern
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