a photo of the duke of cambridge with his children is released to celebrate father s day. good afternoon. the transport secretary says it s not for the government to intervene to try to prevent three days of strikes on the railways this week. grant shapps dismissed calls from the rmt union to get involved in the dispute as a stunt saying it s for the employers and unions to reach an agreement. mr shapps says the strikes would be an act of self harm. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, says the government wants the strikes to go ahead to sow division in society. here s our political correspondent, damian grammaticas. set to bring the rail network to a grinding halt from tuesday, they are the biggest strikes in decades. instead of 20,000 trains on a normal day, just one in five services may run. government says children heading to take exams or patients to medical appointments will face disruption. but, under pressure to take part in talks with the unions, it says it w
the new head of the british army tells his troops they need to prepare to fight in europe once again . plans by the uk government to scrap parts of the post brexit trade deal it agreed with the eu would be economic vandalism on northern ireland according to the irish prime minister. the government wants to change the northern ireland protocol to make it easierfor some goods to flow from great britain to northern ireland and is due to set out proposals in parliament tomorrow. the taoiseach micheal martin said the move would damage northern ireland s economy. if we have a complete unilateral than ageing on an international agreement that the united kingdom government itself signed up to end recommended ratification to its parliament which of course it subsequently did but then of course been a very serious situation but we want to avoid that. nobody wants a trade war in any shape or form. we
. you can see troops detaining a man facedown on the pavement and repeatedly kicking him . the says russia announced that it deputy commander of its fleet had been killed . it is the latest in a series of losses and setbacks even as ukrainian forces turn russia s own weapons against them . frederick planck shows us how they are doing it. another setback for vladimir putin s army . ukrainian forces say they destroyed this column of russian vehicles but, believe it or not, some might be used by the ukrainian army soon. this unit of ukraine s territorial defense captured russian military hardware. i can it s working day in and day out, often using scrap parts to get armored vehicles back on the battlefield . look at all the stuff they have here . gold medal, cables . the guys here tell us they use everything that they can to make these vehicles fit again and be vladimir putin with his
hardware. mechanics working day in and day out often using scrap parts to get armored vehicles back on the battlefield. look at all the stuff they have here. they have old metal, cable. the guys here tell us they use everything that they can to make these vehicles fit again and beat vladimir putin with his own weapons. when we vizzed the group was fixing up several armored personnel carriers and a fuel truck. they also showed us this video of rockets they claim they captured and which they also said even fired back at the russians. while some of the vehicles are captured during battle and the russian crews killed or captured, often russian soldiers simply abandon their gear and run away. a deputy commander of this unit tells me. the russian soldiers are frightened and demuralized, he says. they are afraid to be separated from each other because they re being shot at from every bush. we call it safari.
now being used to defend ukraine from this invasion. cnn s frederik pleitgen has more now. reporter: another setback for vladimir putin s army. ukrainian forces say they destroyed this column of russian vehicles, but, believe it or not, some might be used by the ukrainian army soon. this unit of ukraine s territorial defense fixes up captured russian military hardware. mechanics working day in and day out, often using scrap parts to get armored vehicles back on the battlefield. look at all the stuff they have here. they have old metal, cables, the guys here tell us that they use everything that they can to make these vehicles fit again and beat vladimir putin with his own weapons. when we visited, the group was fixing up several armored personnel carriers and a fuel truck. they also showed us this video of rockets they claim they captured and which they also say had already been fired back at the russians. while some of the vehicles are