when they put me in prison, i heard they were recruiting. serve six months and they pardon you, he tells me. so he signed up with storm z, a unit made up of convicts attached to the russian defense ministry. after only two weeks of basic training, he was shipped off to the frontlines near bakhmut. [ gunfire ] after days of intense shelling, with only rainwater and no food, he heard ukrainian troops outside his foxhole. he assumed they would execute him. i thought that was the end, he recalls. i switched my rifle to single shot mode and thought, i ll shoot myself, but i couldn t. this video, shot by soldiers of ukraine s assault brigade, shows the intense moments when he and his comrade surrendered. the ukrainian troops told them, unlike russians, we don t kill prisoners. we spoke to him and another soldier in a jail in eastern grain, concealing their faces and not using their real names. the third assault brigade granted us access to the p.o.w.s, and two of their soldie
of bakhmut, the east ukrainian city which has been the focus of extensive fighting in recent weeks. the former uk prime minister boris johnson will give evidence to a parliamentary committee later this month, who are looking into whether he lied to parliament. it relates to the parties which he participated in during the covid lockdown, and the statements which he subsequently made to parliament about them. it comes as conservative mps express anger that the partygate investigator, sue gray, has been offered a job with the opposition labour party, as sir keir starmer s chief of staff. a short while ago, we heard from mrjohnson. when i knew they could probably be contradicted by dozens and dozens of officials. but why on earth would i have done that? it simply doesn t make sense. i believed that what we were doing was within the rules. that s why i said what i said in the chamber. it was my honest belief at the time and that s why i thank the committee, but i don t think the
The taliban have now banned Women In Afghanistan from working for non Governmental Organisations saying they are breaking strict dress codes. Just days ago the taliban barred women from studying at university. You are watching bbc news. Now its time for weather world. This time on weather world we are at Raf Coningsby which hit the uks highest Temperature Record this summer. And i will find out how Severe Weather effects operations here. I am here at the uks National Meteorological archive and i will find out how the new Record Temperature and all Weather Observations are used to paint a picture of the uk and the worlds changing climate. If we want to understand the climate of the future, we need to understand the climate now and the climate going back into the past. All these Sleeping Bags and tents are for people in pakistan still homeless after a devastating flood. I will report on the bigger storms of the year and look at what happened after Weather Disasters strike. I am at Raf Co
the chinese leader said the two countries should continue co operation, without giving details. thank you for your company, ben brown is here at the top of the hour, now weather world. this time on weather world we are at raf coningsby which hit the uk s highest temperature record this summer. and i will find out how severe weather effects operations here. i am here at the national meteorological archive and i will find out how the new record temperature and all weather observations are used to paint a picture of the uk and the world s changing climate. if we want to understand the climate of the future, we need to understand the climate now and the climate going back into the past. all these sleeping bags and tents are for people in pakistan still homeless after a devastating flood. i will report on the bigger storms of the year and look at what happened after weather disasters strike. i am at raf coningsby, not only a place close to my heart in that it is where i began my b