for hours over whether or not he broke covid guidance when he kissed his aide, leaked messages in the telegraph newspaper show. un countries are said to be finalising an agreement on a long awaited environmental treaty to protect the high seas the area of the ocean not controlled by any one country. welcome. russian and ukrainian forces are still fighting in the streets of bakhmut which russia has been trying to capture for several months. the deputy mayor of the city has told the bbc that the 4,000 civilians still living there out of an original population of 75,000 have no gas, electricity or water. thousands of russian troops have died trying to take the eastern city if it falls, it would be the first russian victory of note in more than six months. our diplomatic correspondentjames landale reports from kyiv. this is bakhmut, or at least what s left of it, after some of the fiercest fighting since russia invaded ukraine. for more than six months, as the bbc has r
green pioneer or costly white elephant? the uk s first carbon capture gas plant will either be here or further north on teesside. jonah fisher, bbc news in keadby. let s get some of the day s other news the roman catholic church in portugal has promised to take steps to deal with its history of child sex abuse. it follows a highly critical report that found that nearly five thousand children had been abused by clergy since 1950. a un report says gang related violence in haiti has reached levels not seen in decades. in a new assessment the organisiation says criminal gangs that control many parts of haiti are getting more access to sophisticated weapons and ammunition. the white house says president biden had a cancerous skin lesion successfully removed from his chest last month. doctor say no further treatment is required. the lesion was spotted during a routine health check and a biopsy confirmed it was a common form of skin cancer which does not normally spread.
more now and that breaking news that the united nations and iran have announced an agreement has been reached that would allow un officials to carry out further inspections of tehran s nuclear programme. let s get more on this with the bbc s bethany bell. she joins us from vienna. bethany, i was there any indication of any kind of timeframe on these further inspections being carried out two by ten particular way to put their minds at ease? we out two by ten particular way to put their minds at ease? their minds at ease? we don t have an exact timeframe their minds at ease? we don t have an exact timeframe at their minds at ease? we don t have an exact timeframe at the - their minds at ease? we don t have| an exact timeframe at the moment. the head of the iea said they will be having meetings soon to work out the modalities. what he says this agreement gives you an is more access to the places that they want to go to. more access to people they have been interested in speaking to
a and the iea has had questions about activities by iran in terms of its nuclear work in the past that also most recently, they detected highly enriched uranium traces in the underground nuclear plant which were enriched up to almost 84% purity weapons grade. and what we understand now as they will be there will be much more access by there will be much more access by the un s inspectors to go to this underground place to figure out what caused that. iran which says its nuclear programme is peaceful says that it nuclear programme is peaceful says thatitis nuclear programme is peaceful says that it is enriching up to 60%, but they may have been unintended fluctuations which caused this 84%. of course, bethany, even the