Also on the programme. Israel kills a top islamichhad leader in gaza and braces for retaliatory rocket attacks. After nine years at sea, a message in a bottle finally receives a response. Thankfully, it wasnt an 505. Hello and welcome. Im Christian Fraser in Bishop Auckland, and Michelle Fleury is in new york. We are just over a month from the uk general election and its in places like this County Durham where the vote could be won and lost. Bbc news will be visiting ten areas of the uk where seats will be closely contested. Today, weve travelled beyond the bubble to Bishop Auckland in the north east of england. Its a marginal labour seat which voted decisively for brexit. Well, yesterday the brexit party announced they would not run candidates in seats won by the conservatives in 2017. But they will stand in Bishop Auckland, making the seat even more marginal and more unpredictable. Last week, we were in leeds on the doorstep with the canvassers. This time, we have steered clear of th
Correspondent orla guerin is in the ukrainian capital, kyiv tonight, and joins us now. Is the counteroffensive intensifying . Is the counteroffensive intensifying . Is the Counteroffensive Intensi Inc . ~ ,. , intensifying . Well, it has been a bus da , intensifying . Well, it has been a busy day, sophie. Intensifying . Well, it has been a busy day, sophie. From intensifying . Well, it has been a | busy day, sophie. From ukraines point of view, a successful one. It has managed to hit the headquarters of russias Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean Peninsula with a missile. We know there is damage to the building. We are not sure how much. One ukrainian spokesman has said on social media, we wanted a bigger hole. But undoubtedly, ukraine could hardly have picked a more symbolic target. Its a headline grabbing attack, it is a showy attack. It is not the first time that ukraine has struck at Russian Military and the structure in premier. As ukraine faces into the second winter of war, we know i
Progress. More on that story in a moment. As ukraine faces a second winter of war, it is suffering heavy losses on the battlefield, but the military does not release figures for those killed and injured. The bbc has been given access to one of the main hospitals receiving casualties from the front lines. Doctors there have treated more than 20,000 Wounded Soldiers since russias full scale invasion in february 2022, many of them amputees. From south eastern ukraine, our International Correspondent 0rla guerin reports. Sirens. Under a blanket of darkness, the wounded are brought in. On arrival each one is numbered. Each one a husband, a father or a son. This is the pain of a generation. Staff here treat 50 to 100 new casualties every day. Another badly wounded soldier has just been brought in. Hes in his 20s and one of his legs has already been amputated. This is where you can see the cost of the war, the cost for soldiers, the cost for ukraine and theres no let up, the casualties keep c
President to be impeached twice no true supporter of mine could ever endorse political violence. No true supporter of mine could ever disrespect Law Enforcement or our Great American flag. A Global Climate change warning as Scientists Say the last decade was the warmest since records began thousands of laptops and tablets are donated to help children being home schooled online after a bbc campaign. A Record Number of patients have been waiting to start non urgent hospital treatment in england nearly four and a half million at the end of november, with the number of those waiting more than a year for treatment one hundred times higher than before the pandemic. The Royal College of surgeons says the figure shows the calamitous impact of coronavirus. Newly released data also shows that 1 in 4 patients admitted to accident and Emergency Departments waited more than four hours for a bed in november. Nhs england has warned that Services Face an exceptionally tough challenge. Our Health Corr
Upper as your power plant. Eager, as everyone knows and ukraine is behind, that shelling of some of you have repeated your favorite cunning mantra. If not, if it, if it werent for russia, we would not find ourselves in the situation very well. I want to look for the umpteenth time remind you we would not find ourselves in the situation. If not for the fact that in 2014, in care of, with the direct present dissipation of a number of western states, a bloody anti constitutional who had not taken place. And the leaders of that who chose from the very 1st day, the path of distorting history and driving out the use of the russian language. And thus provoked in acute internal civilian conflict. And we would not be discussing today we were discussing. If you didnt a bed, the key of regime and its unwillingness to you will begin to fulfilment the minsk agreements and didnt provide cover for its 8 year long war against the inhabitants of the don barzyk. In that case, we would not have had to be