the eu is considering similar control measures but the uk has so far said it will not introduce new restrictions in sport erling haaland has became the quickest player to reach 20 premier league goals in a season, with two against leeds as manchester city won 3 1 to move to second in the table. ukraine has been struck by a fresh barrage of russian missiles targeting several major cities. dozens of missiles had been launched from land and sea at the population and civilian infrastructure. several cities from kyiv in the north, odesa in the south, kharkiv in the east and lviv in the west have seen explosions hit their cities. the mayor of kyiv, said 16 missiles had all been shot down by the capitals air defences but at least three people were taken to hospital. in lviv, officials say the city has lost about 90% of its electricity. earlier, ukraine s military intelligence chief told the bbc the conflict was now at a stalemate. our correspondent hugo bachega has the latest from
the biggest tax cuts in half a century in a bid to kickstart growth. more than seventy people die after a migrant boat sinks off the coast of syria. a new type of cancer therapy shows promising results in early human trials. we hear from the study leader. and the first woman to win the booker prize twice the celebrated author dame hilary mantel dies at the age of seventy. officials in four russian occupied regions of ukraine have been holding self declared referendums on whether to become part of the russian federation. the kremlin supports the votes just as it did after the annexation of crimea the ukrainian territory which was invaded in 2014. but the government in kyiv and western countries have condemned the referendums saying they are just a sham, and that they will never be recognised. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson, in the south and cov
of which locations have been hit. we know that air defence systems have intercepted many of those missiles. we have been given the all clear so we are back here in our position in kyiv after spending a few hours in the shelter this morning. people across the country were told to stay in shelters because of those air strikes. so again the ukrainians say they believe these attacks are likely to continue because they say this is how russia is responding to what is happening on the battlefield. i m joined now by ustyn danchuk in odesa. ustyn is a ukrainian film makerfrom kherson who had to flee his city to a safer location. welcome, thank you forjoining us. so you went to edessa and is now odesa is now also under attack, what is the situation where you are? odesa was. the russians decided to attack our energy system, so it
vladimir putin once promised russians stability. now, he s sending them to the front line. persuading russians to keep faith in him won t be easy. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. earlier i spoke to ustyn danchuk, founder of the first kherson film school he spent three months under russian occupation and then managed to escape to odesa. here he is talking about what his friends are saying about the so called voting back in kherson: three orfour of three or four of these sites for the referendum takes place were empty and no people were there. some were single people who go over there, there were pensioners were nostalgic of the soviet union and the total minority in the town and most of the people just hide minority in the town and most of the peoplejust hide in