enough to keep the people in the know awake at night? the world is changing rapidly. we are changing it. but we re fighting back as well, and we re taking some of those steps. and a lot of the days, i m optimistic. vladimir putin, we re told, was promised that his invasion of ukraine would be over and done with by lastjuly a year ago, that is. who would have thought that ukraine would put up such a fight? and who would have thought that nato would have held together in the way it has? not mr putin, clearly. so what about the battlefield casualties which russia s sustained? the bbc s russian service has been carrying out a thorough investigation into this, putting names to as many of the dead as they can. olga ivshina, senior correspondent for the bbc russia service, has headed the investigation. so currently, we know names of 25,560 russian fighters who died fighting in ukraine. i say fighters, because it s important. not all of them are russian soldiers. some of them were
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and i am at the cheltenham festival, looking ahead to the highlight of the week here, the gold cup. and coming up on the bbc news channel, crystal palace are looking for a new manager after sacking patrick vieira. he leaves after a run of 12 games without a win. good afternoon. a major review of the metropolitan police is expected to heavily criticise the force for racist, sexist and homophobic behaviour. baroness casey was appointed to examine the met s standards and internal culture after the murder of sarah everard by wayne couzens, a serving policeman. the bbc has been told the review published next week will be extremely bad for britain s biggest police force. our special correspondent, lucy manning, has been talking to former partners of police officers who say the met fails to deal with abusive officers in its ranks. sirens. they used to be in uniform, until they were convicted. since wayne couzens was arrested, more met police officers have been sentenced, many
the floods there get really high and i don t want a repeat of what happened to me before. cubans give their verdict on legalising same sex marriage and whether gay couples can adopt in a landmark referendum that s divided the nation. japan prepares to hold a state funeral for the former prime minister shinzo abe, who was shot dead during an election rally injuly. and less than two months ahead of the men s football world cup in qatar, concerns that there may not be enough affordable accommodation. italy has never had a female prime minister. but exit polls suggest that is about to change, with the far right brothers of italy emerging as the biggest party in the new parliament, and putting its leader giorgia meloni on course to become the prime minister. her party leans further to the right than any government since the mussolini 80 years ago. the democratic party have already conceded, she said the voters had indicated their desire for a centre right government and that she