we report from the worst affected district in paktika province. and wimbledon begins in front of full crowds for the first time in three years. novak djokovic begins his quest for a fourth successive wimbledon title. coming out, i will bring you the latest from the all england club on the opening day of the championships, where we have had rain and now thankfully sunshine, with novak djokovic, emma raducanu and andy murray among the big names in action. welcome back to bbc news. let s go straight back to that breaking news in the last hour or so. news that russia has carried out a missile strike on a shopping centre in the central ukrainian city of kremenchuk. at least two people have been killed and 20 others injured. president zelensky said more than a thousand people had been inside at the time of the attack. let me show some of the latest pictures that have come in, and these in the immediate aftermath of that strike, 3:50pm local time, it was, and we see the huge fires t
In recovering bodies, saying he feared the city risked an epidemic of infection from the large number of bodies under the rubble and in the water. The libyan red crescent described the scene as like a bombardment and earthquake at the same time. When the dams collapsed, a wall of water weighing 1. 5 Million Tonnes crashed down the wadi derna river, gouging out huge parts of the city, before reaching the sea. To give you a sense of the power of that tsunami, 20 centimetres of fast moving water, is enough to knock adults off their feet. Here, there was three metres of water sweeping away everything in its path. The human cost is colossal this man hasjust found his son and begs Rescue Workers not to touch him. Desperate scenes repeated again and again, some people have lost 30, 40, 50 members of their extended family. Lets start by hearing from one survivor who describes what he went through. Translation we woke up at around three or 3. 30 in the morning. We heard a large bang. Anyone who
last week, an earthquake in afghanistan killed over 1,000 people. aftershocks are still happening. and the humanitarian aid effort very much continues. the worst affected area is paktika province near the border with pakistan. it s a mountainous region that is difficult to access. this is one district gayan. it s only recently received food supplies. people in villages nearby still haven t received any help. yogita limaye has been speaking to some of them. at the edge of the village, debris under which four of a family were killed. this man told us he and his mother had exchanged the spots they were sleeping in the night the earthquake struck. she died. translation: something hit my head
announced plans to massively increase its forces, in what is being called its biggest overhaul of its collective defence since the cold war. five days after an earthquake in east afghanistan killed over 1,000 people, some villages still haven t received any aid. welcome to the programme. we start in eastern ukraine, where a missile strikes have hit a busy shopping centre. president zelensky said more than 1,000 people were in the building at the time. this happened in the town of kremenchuk, in the poltava