tikahitity have allies of him arguing about his likability and saying if we get rid of him. likability and saying if we get rid of him, the tories will throw away the next of him, the tories will throw away the next election. it is not particularly helpful to then have him booed so publicly. absolutely and i thinkjohn him booed so publicly. absolutely and i thinkjohn hit him booed so publicly. absolutely and i thinkjohn hit the him booed so publicly. absolutely and i thinkjohn hit the nail- him booed so publicly. absolutely and i thinkjohn hit the nail on - him booed so publicly. absolutelyl and i thinkjohn hit the nail on the and i thinkjohn hit the nail on the head there. it was striking with a group of people, royalists who traditionally vote conservative and obsolete we cannot pay everyone with the same brush but largely a group of people representing his sort of party supporters and for them to be moving at such an event where you have two extra bank holidays,
between liverpool and real madrid. hello, and a warm welcome to bbc news. good to have you with me this hour. we begin with ukraine. it s 100 days since russia began its invasion. president zelensky marked the occasion by praising the country s resistance. but he s admitted russia now controls one fifth of his country, that nearly 1a million people have been forced to flee and that thousands of civilians have been killed. 0n the ground, vladimir putin s focus is now on the donbas region in the east, where his forces continue to make gains. but the governor of the luhansk region says ukrainian troops have recaptured parts of severodonetsk. if confirmed, it would mean russian forces control only half the city. 0ur international correspondent 0rla guerin has been with ukrainian troops near bakhmut, one of the next towns in russia s path. a dirt track that leads to a grinding war. we re in donbas, the key battleground. the russians are two miles down the road. this area, around b
pro democracy, but the stakes are realfor pro democracy, but the stakes are real for people. pro democracy, but the stakes are realfor people. an pro democracy, but the stakes are real for people. an activist was given a sentence of two and a half years this past fall for staging a single person commemoration in the mainland, sojust these past single person commemoration in the mainland, so just these past few days, we know that the tenant and mothers, surviving family members of the victims of 1989. tiananmen teoman mothers. just the victims of 1989. .. tiananmen teoman mothers. teoman mothers. just on the auestion teoman mothers. just on the question of teoman mothers. just on the question of the teoman mothers. just on the question of the security - teoman mothers. just on the question of the security log, i teoman mothers. just on the i question of the security log, there has been some controversy, a prominent lawyer in a us law firm based in hong kong accepted the invita
this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. 100 days since russia began its invasion of ukraine, we have a report from a town in the donbas region which is in russia s sights. the world food programme warns that more than 80 million people in east africa are facing a few food shortages because of the fighting in ukraine. a thanksgiving service at st paul s cathedral marks the queen s 70 year reign, but the queen herself was absent. police in hong kong police warn people against taking part in events to mark the anniversary of the tiananmen massacre in beijing. and an apology from uefa after the chaos that marred the champions league final
a thanksgiving service at st paul s cathedral marks the queen s 70 year reign. hong kong police have warned that people risk breaking the law if they gather to commemorate china s tiananmen massacre, and particularly on victoria park, the site of a once annual candlelit vigil. public commemorations of tiananmen are all but forbidden in mainland china. hong kong had been the one place in the country where large scale remembrance was still tolerated, until beijing imposed a wide reaching national security law two years ago, in reaction to citywide pro democracy protests. on that, i mjoined now by sophie richardson, china director of human rights watch. and shejoined us and she joined us from the united states. sophie richardson, thank you very much for talking to us on bbc news. the commemoration, the anniversary, is saturday. it is now, as we speak, friday in the uk, but