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with ukraine s president zelensky and turkey s recep tayyip erdogan. leeds university has expressed dismay after one of its phd students was jailed for 3h years after tweets criticising the regime. hundreds of thousands of students across england, wales and northern ireland have been receiving their exam results today. a level, t level and btec students have all been marked based on exams for the first time since two years of covid disruption. compared with 2019, when exams were last sat in person, there s been a i9% increase in students gaining a place at their firm or insurance choice university. the proportion of students in england, wales and northern ireland getting top a level grades has fallen since the record high of last year, but is higher than 2019. around 36.4% of pupils have achieved a star and a grades. and for the new t level exams where students split time between classroom learning and industry placements the overall pass rate is 92%. our education corres
this is bbc news. the headlines. fighting appears to be intensifying around the ukrainian city of lysychansk. an adviser to the defence ministry in kyiv said the situation there was very difficult, but the city was not yet under full russian control. one week after the us supreme court s decision to remove the constitutional right to an abortion rallies have been taking place around the world. protesters took to the streets in australia, france and the united states. greece has welcomed the first of more than 200 foreign firefighters to help contain summer wildfires. last year greece saw the worst wildfires in a decade amid severe heatwaves. passengers are facing more disruption as the travel industry struggles to recruit staff in time for the holidays. thousands of flights in the us have been cancelled as americans celebrate independence day weekend. let s get all the sport now with gavin. good morning to you. good morning! it s middle sunday at wimbledon with action o
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