Thank you all. We will try to answer as many as we can. Hello, im derek from london in the uk. Is there really a stalemate in ukraine at the moment . This is angela from auckland in new zealand. Could you talk please about the changes, zelenskys strategy with the departure of zaluzhnyi, the general. In charge of the army . Well, lyse, first of all, is there a stalemate on the battlefield or has the tide turned in favour of russia . I will answer the question about the stalemate, and i will partially be answering the second question. It was general zaluzhnyi the last Commander In Chief who used the words stalemate in an interview and it is said to have angered president zelensky. He felt it was too negative a description of the situation along the front line. President zelensky himself recently went to visit his troops in the east. He described the situation as extremely difficult. He is saying the Russian Forces are pressing ahead in at least five directions. And he believes russia is
the last day or so has seen an extraordinary turn of events in russia. the russian president vladimir putin has survived an immediate threat to his power after the leader of the wagner mercenary group agreed to end his mutiny against the russian army. yevgeny prigozhin called off his wagner troops march to moscow late saturday night after negotiations with putin s ally and belarus leader alexander lukashenko. he also agreed to leave russia for belarus, and the kremlin has said it will not pursue punishment against him or wagnerfighters. but there are many questions unanswered about what s happened. to help unpack some of these i m joined now by a panel of experts. joining me live are vitaly shevchenko, who is from bbc monitoring, jade mcglynn is a researcher at the war studies department at king 5 college london. she s also the author of memory makers: the politics of the past in russia and russia 5 war. she joins us from oxfordshire. justin crump is a military veteran and
before you get the burgers on the grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. desantis has officially entered the 2024 white house race. as we said, the livestream event on twitter got off to a rocky start, crashing several times with the announcement delayed by the more than 20 minutes due to a series of technical glitches. sorry about that, we ve got so many people here, i think we are kind of melting the servers. let s see, so yeah. just to simplify. let s see. crashing, huh? i think we re back online here. great. all right. well, it s certainly an incredible honor to have governor desantis make this stark announcement. oh, the technical troubles drew mockery on social media. president joe biden posted a link to his donation page, writing simply, this link works. and former president donald trump had a series of posts on truth social, calling the announcement fatal and a disaster. he also had one strange post where he wrote, quote, rob, my
happens. let s go to mcallen, texas, on-site hearing, a field trip, if you will, at the highest level at the southern border after what you saw broke off on sunday. a bum rush in el paso, texas. some of them had already booked travel, democrats are pulling out of this unique opportunity to get hands on after the border crisis. again, the white house with a familiar line today calling the hearing itself a stunt. any news and we ll bring it to you immediately. get to this. tensions escalating. united states and russia blaming each other after a warplane crashed into an american drone over the black sea. it is first known encounter between the two militaries since the start of the ukraine war a bit more than a year ago. i m harris faulkner, you are in the faulkner focus. flighter jet clipped propeller of the reaper drone as it flew over the black sea yesterday. the hit forced american operators to bring down the $32 million drone. national security council spokesman john kirby
use all the means russia has, and that his words are not a bluff translation: | repeat, | we are talking of a partial mobilisation only. only people in the military reserve will be drafted. the priority will be on people who served in the armed forces, who have military specialisation and experience. and ongoing crisis in maternity care. the royal college of midwives were in warns that new research shows that many units in england do not meet safety standards. the bbc obtains new material relating to the death of footballer emiliano sala, with the pilot of the plane which crashed calling it dodgy before it took off. welcome to bbc news. businesses could have their energy bills cut by a third under new government plans. we re expecting more details this morning, but the measures are believed to include a cap on wholesale energy costs for businesses which currently don t have an energy price cap. it is thought the limit will be 21.1p per kilo watt hour for electricity, compa