gun violence. sir keir starmer sets out his party s position on brexit the opposition leader says labour will not be campaigning to take the uk back into the eu. and halo by name halo by nature the cockpit invention that saved the life of a formula 1 driver this weekend, in a spectacular crash at silverstone. tonight with the context, from tel aviv, political analyst dahlia scheindlin andjim murphy, former secretary of state for scotland and now managing director at arden strategies. hello and welcome to the programme. breaking news this evening six people are known to have been killed and 31 others taken to hospital in another mass shooting incident, this time during an independence day parade in the state of illinois. the incident took place in highland park, lake county, 50 kilometres north of chicago. the gunman is thought to have been firing from a rooftop position towards the parade. police say a high powered rifle was recovered. but the gunman, said to be white
By air strikes and shelling. five people have reportedly been killed and 13 injured in shelling of the city of kharkiv while in mykolaiv, near the port of odesa, the governor reports continuous rocket attacks. of the shattered city of mariupol, ukraine s foreign minister has said: the situation is dire militarily and heartbreaking. it doesn t exist any more . the remainder of the ukrainian army and large groups of civilians decided to raze the city to the ground at any cost. our correspondent danjohnson is in lviv and gave us this update about the missile strikes. this morning, it does look like there has been a strike on lviv. we re not able to swing our camera around to show you at the moment. the ukrainian officials ask us not to do that in the immediate aftermath of an attack, butjust off camera, there are plumes of smoke now coming from the city s skyline and from this rooftop position, i actually heard the jets
Military, ask us not to do that, not at the moment, until they have ascertained exactly what has been hit. from our rooftop position, i heard jets flying overhead and actually saw a missile streaking through the sky then landing somewhere, and that is where the black smoke is now coming from. it is an marked escalation for people here in lviv, there was an attack on the edge of the city early in the conflict, on an old oil depot. there have been a number of air raid alert but no successful attacks or damage done until this morning. we are not clear is what has been hit. some of the smoke apparently is coming from close to the city s railway station but no confirmation of the target, we don t know this was a russian attack but it has to be the assumption. this is a city in the west of ukraine, we are hundreds of miles away from the really intense fighting in the east of the country. this is somewhere people thought they were safe. i was even talking to people over the weekend who had co
Where many ukrainians had been fleeing in the hope of safety, but which was hit in the last few hours, and he gave us this update about the missile strikes. this morning, it does look like there has been a strike on lviv. we re not able to swing our camera around to show you at the moment. the ukrainian officials ask us not to do that in the immediate aftermath of an attack, butjust off camera, there are plumes of smoke now coming from the city s skyline and from this rooftop position, i actually heard the jets flying overhead myself. i saw a missile flying through the air, then landing on the edge of the city. that s where we can now see black smoke coming from. it looks like there has been an attack. four explosions reported this morning, we believe close to the city s railway station. this will really put people on edge here. they thought that lviv was a relatively safe place in the west of ukraine, hundreds of miles away from the fighting in the east.
This is bbc news. i m annita mcveigh. our top stories. ukraine says the port city of mariupol no longer exists after weeks of russian attacks. there s also been a series of powerful explosions in the western city of lviv this morning. from this rooftop position, i actually heard the jets flying overhead myself. i saw a missile flying through the air, then landing on the edge of the city, and that s where we can now see black smoke. a fourth day of clashes in parts of sweden, sparked by the plans of a far right group to burn copies of the quran. the chinese city of shanghai has reported its first official covid deaths for two years, as a strict lockdown continues. that s as scotland becomes the last place in the uk to remove the legal requirement people to wear