they ve started handing over control of the eastern city to moscow s army. the battle for bakhmut has been the longest and bloodiest of the war. this aerialfootage taken earlier this month shows intense shelling in a residential area. most people fled before fighting broke out. bakhmut is of little strategic value, but its capture would be a symbolic victory for russia. meanwhile, the ukrainian president volodymr zelensky made a surprise commencement speech for graduates atjohns hopkins university in the us. i m proud that ukraine is not losing a single day in its defence against russian terror. every day, we do everything to become stronger, to give more protection to people, to save more lives. the united states is also not lost a single day to help ukraine repel the russian aggression. the battle for bakhmut began last august. ukraine says its forces still control part of it. our bbc verify team has been looking at images that show the extent of the destruction there durin
hello, i m rich preston. welcome to the daily global, where we ll bring you the top stories from the uk and around the world. a few stories we re keeping across tonight a judge in london has found that prince harry was the victim of phone hacking by the mirror newspaper group. we ll bring you the details, with reaction and analysis. also today, a key development in efforts to get humanitarian aid into the gaza strip israel says it will allow aid trucks to enter through the kerem shalom crossing for the first time since the hamas attacks on october the seventh. it comes as us national security adviser, jake sullivan, is the region today, meeting the palestinian leader, mahmoud abbas. and russia responds to the eu s decision to open membership talks with ukraine and moldova, saying it s a politicised action that could destabilise the bloc. we ll hear from moldova s president maia sandu. but first prince harry has called on police to open a criminal investigation after a c
programme. there will no be default. those were the words of president biden on thursday as he hailed what he called productive talks with his political rivals as the clock ticks on the country s finances. he is trying to avoid hitting the debt ceiling. the us government is set to hit its borrowing limit of $31.4 trillion next week, raising fears it could run out of money to pay its bills without a deal to increase the debt ceiling. from new york, michelle fleury reports. with just one week left until treasury officials say the us will run out of cash to pay its bills, the mood music from washington was upbeat that a deal can be done to avoid default. i want to be clear that the negotiations we re having with speaker mccarthy is about the outlines of what the budget will look like not about default. it s about competing visions for america. nothing will be resolved till we solve them all. we know where our differences lie. we worked well past midnight last night, we r
where officials there have dismissed claims that the city of bakhmut has fallen to russia, after wagner mercenaries said they d begun handing over control of the eastern city to moscow s army. the battle for the city has been the longest and bloodiest of the war. this aerialfootage taken earlier this month shows intense shelling in a residential area, most people had already fled before fighting broke out. bakhmut is of little strategic value to moscow, but its capture would be a symbolic victory for russia. here s part of the recording made by the head of that russian mercenary group, wagner. translation: we are withdrawing units from bakhmut. today, it s 5am on the 25th of may. by the 1st ofjune, the main parts of the unit will be relocated at the rear camps. we re handing over our positions to the military. ammunition, positions, everything, including food rations. the battle for bakhmut began last august, and ukraine says its forces still control part of it. our verify