more than three million households in england and wales were still waiting for their £150 energy rebate at the beginning of last month. europe is on course for its worst drought in at least 500 years. that s the stark warning from a new eu report. stranded for hours under the english channel. passengers tell of what happened after their eurotunnel service was evacuated. services are now back to normal. a former twitter executive turns whistleblower to testify that the firm misled users and regulators about gaps in its security. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. it has been six months since vladimir putin decided to wage a war on ukraine, on a scale not seen on this continent in half a century. the true cost of this war in human life is difficult to estimate. ukrainians claim around 9,000 soldier lives have been lost. it s estimated russia has lost around 80,000 troops during the invasion either killed, wounded, captured or deserted. meanwh
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an official statement said russia s aim is to prevent strikes by ukrainian forces on eastern regions under their control. now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson. hello and welcome to unspun world. this is the lobby of new broadcasting house the bbc s headquarters in central london. will the fact that britain will soon have a new prime minister weaken its support for ukraine now that boris johnson s gone? and we ll be hearing in shocking detail about a series of war crimes committed by russian soldiers. they get him to bend towards the wall and they load bricks on his back, until he collapses, and then put a bucket on his head and they start battering him. president biden visits the country he called an international pariah a couple of years ago. hypocrisy or just an acceptance of saudi arabia s new importance in the world? of course, for the president, it s all about how your voters think, and one of the huge issues in the us at the moment is the price of fuel. an
towards the wall and they load bricks on his back, until he collapses, and then put a bucket on his head and they start battering him. president biden visits the country he called an international pariah a couple of years ago. hypocrisy or just an acceptance of saudi arabia s new importance in the world? of course, for the president, it s all about how your voters think, and one of the huge issues in the us at the moment is the price of fuel. and has the day passed for a health service free at the point of delivery here in britain and in other western countries? there is a lot of support| for the nhs as it now is, but frustration at waiting a long time for a routine operation. i in early september, there ll be a new prime minister in downing street. borisjohnson s supporters, and there are still plenty of them, insist that his big achievements were getting brexit done, ushering britain through covid, and being ukraine s number one supporter after russia invaded. when the ne
federation, fina, has voted to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in elite women s events. now on bbc news, it s time for political thinking with nick robinson. hello. welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than interrogation of someone whose political thinking helps to shape ours. once again, london and brussels are at loggerheads. once again, the row between the uk and the eu is about the status of northern ireland. once again, politics in belfast is deadlocked, with unionists refusing to share power with sinn fein. my guest this week is someone whose life and career is based on a refusal to take sides in that political battle. it is a decision that has paid dividends for naomi long, who leads the alliance party, which won a record number of seats in the recent elections. brought up in one of the most fiercely loyalist parts of east belfast, she insisted that politics should not be defined by whether you want northern ireland to stay in th