increasingly drones are calling the shots in the war in ukraine, just before dawn today, this, the largest russian attack on kyiv since spring, killing two people. it's 21st century, remote controlled warfare that the ukrainians are using to devastating effect too. in a moment, more on one of kyiv�*s biggest drone attacks on russian targets, hitting six regions. but first, we're on the front line in north easterern ukraine, where it's believed more than 100,000 russian troops are gathering, to try to retake ukrainian territory, lost a year ago. it's near the city of kupiansk, and our correspondent, quentin sommerville, and camera journalist darren conway, have spent the last few weeks in the region between between kupiansk, and the city of lyman, where the threat of so—called russian kamikaze drones, is ever present. the battle on ukraine's eastern front has reawakened. it's in these fields and trenches that the conflict now burns at its hottest, ukraine says. there's been a lot of russian activity in this area over the past couple of days. in fact, there were air strikes on the village just behind me, so we're now having to move before dawn to get to the trenches. south of kupiansk, they cast russian forces out of here almost a year ago. but their enemy is threatening to return. beyond these fields, russia has advanced in recent weeks. the men of the 68th jaeger brigade, newly installed, are here to ensure that they go no further. go, go, go! they are up against infantry and artillery attacks daily along these lines. you can see here... loud bang. that's outgoing artillery. along the front, it's said some 100,000 russian troops have gathered in newly—formed battle groups, some beyond this tree line. and if you look all around here, there's been incoming fire here. there's lots of damage. so there's plenty of trench positions to take cover in. it's easy to forget, with so much focus on the counteroffensive in the south of ukraine, that there are vicious battles going on here in the east and the north. in the south, they're making progress bit by bit, but here in the east, it's russia that's advancing. this is a war on many fronts, and it's straining russia's resources, but it's also straining ukraine's too. so in the south and the east, the demands on ukrainian forces are rising. this is front line, front line. yeah, i cannot go... andriy�*s taking us forward, but a russian drone spotted his vehicle before we took cover. explosion. "we must go," he says. "get in the car." a dozen shells land in as many minutes. come on, we need to get to the car. come on! we first met andriy injune when he was fighting in the southern counteroffensive around velyka novosilka. this eastern front is far deadlier, he says. translation: velyka novosilka was less dangerous. _ there were far fewer soldiers there than there are here, and they have more weapons here, more of everything. that's why it's more dangerous here. its gains are modest, but from kupiansk to lyman further south, russia is resurgent. and in the serebryansky forest, it's especially fierce. we're heading deep into this forest. there's been a lot of fighting here. this is artillery strike this morning, maybe a couple of hours ago. you see it is still burning. all this road is shelled by drones and missile systems. can you see? no tops of the trees. the men compare the artillery barrages to the first world war�*s verdun, but there's a new lethal threat to contend with here — kamikaze drones. bleep. just hit right in front of our vehicle. so we're trying to take some cover now. the gunner has fallen inside. he shouts. he's unhurt, he signals. that was a drone attack against our car. that was a russian drone. so they saw us, they sent a drone, and now they are seeking us and hunting us, so we need to go faster. we're just a couple of hundred metres from our position. the drones work in pairs. a surveillance drone is still up above, so they get off the road. so we've had to... we had to stop going forward, because the danger here is, the deeper you get into the forest, the cover doesn't get better. there's constant russian artillery. it's setting some of the trees on fire, and it's turning these areas into wide—open areas, very exposed. there's no tree cover here, so we've had to come off the road. there are drones up above, and we just saw what they can do. the humvee�*s thick armour and the driver's quick thinking means that everybody inside was unhurt. but of course, civilians along these reignited front lines have no such protection. young and old, villagers around kupiansk are being evacuated from their homes. they are now in range of russian guns, and russia doesn't discriminate. last year, they endured six months of occupation here. they refuse to again. once more on the eastern front, the advance of russian guns is casting ukrainian families apart. viktor gives his family a final hug before they separate. sophia isjust five months old, too precious to remain in harm's way. why are you leaving? translation: because it's very scary to live here. - i want to safeguard my children. it's very scary not knowing if the shelling will hit or not, if we will survive or not. viktor hoped that he was done with goodbyes. but as russia advances, he is once again left praying that he'll see his family again. quentin sommerville, bbc news, kupiansk. the front line in ukraine. but russia is also being hit by drone attacks, on its own territory. overnight ukrainian strikes left an airport ablaze in the northwestern city of pskov and damaged military planes. according to bbc verify, there have been over 190 suspected aerial drone attacks this year in russia, and on russian—controlled territory in ukraine. our russia editor, steve rosenberg, has that story. imagine seeing this from your window. it's terrifying, she says. what are thought to have been ukrainian drones had just attacked a russian airfield and destroyed military aircraft. this is pskov, hundreds of miles from ukraine. rapid gunfire. the response from the ground. overnight, six russian regions were targeted in one of the most extensive drone attacks on russian territory. here's a factory in bryansk. you can hear the drone... ..and the result. explosion. russia's foreign ministry promised that attacks on russia would not go unpunished. but they have gone underreported. this bulletin boasted about russia attacking ukraine, but not a word about the drone attacks on russia. some state media here have mentioned them, but only in passing. there were no drone attacks on russian cities before russia's full—scale invasion of ukraine. now, they're happening more and more often. now, you might think, and it would be logical to assume, that more and more russians are putting two and two together and concluding that it's the invasion that's to blame, that the invasion was a mistake. but i don't get the sense that's happening. i think it's because many here still believe, or want to believe, the kremlin narrative that russia's a victim, not the aggressor. to stop the drones, leonid says, we must defeat those who are launching them. if russia hadn't begun the special military operation, says irina, nato would have invaded us. as for anastasia, she doesn't follow the news closely. she says she tries to think about more positive things. i've heard many russians say that. they don't believe they can change what's happening, so they try not to notice. steve rosenberg, bbc news, st petersburg. the government says the inquiry, into the circumstances surrounding the murders and attempted murders of babies by the neo natal nurse, lucy letby, will now be a statutoryjudge led inquiry. it means potential witnesses can be forced to give evidence. michael buchanan, has that story. hello, lucy, is it? yes. hello, my name's... cheshire police. can i step in two seconds? yes. yeah? thank you. lucy letby seemed bewildered by her arrest, but what she did and why she killed, she has never explained to the families of her many victims. over 12 months, the nurse killed seven vulnerable babies and attempted to murder six others. the scale of her crimes is such that the health secretary says the inquiry into what happened will now have greater powers. we will have a statutory inquiry into the letby murders, into the events at chester. that will be a judge—led inquiry, as the prime minister has confirmed, and that reflects the wishes of the families, which i discussed with them. those who worked alongside lucy letby at the countess of chester nhs trust will now be compelled to give evidence to answer the families' many questions. the judge who will lead the inquiry hasn't yet been named. among the issues that will need to be addressed are why she was able to kill for at least a year, what systems were in place to stop her, and why didn't they work, and how the nhs handled the concerns that doctors were raising about her? the families will be pleased with this announcement. we need an inquiry that can get to the truth. they want the truth to come out here, and we need an inquiry which is effective and can do that. so we need an inquiry which has the powers to compel witnesses, has the powers to compel documents. it looks like we've got that here, and that's really good news. a key witness will be tony chambers, letby�*s former boss, seen here last year at the opening of the royal liverpool hospital. some staff on the neonatal unit accuse the former chief executive of ignoring their concerns about the nurse, and threatening to report them to medical regulators for misconduct. he resigned two months after the killer was arrested, but then got a promotion as interim chief executive of this east london trust, a job the bbc has learned that nhs england helped him get. they also approved two further interim chief executive posts he got, a fact the inquiry will examine. in a statement, nhs england said mr chambers had been appointed after a competitive process. lucy letby has never revealed her true self to the victims�* families. this inquiry should now be able to fill in some gaps as to how she was able to kill so many for so long. michael buchanan, bbc news. lucy letby refused to be in court for her sentencing. nowjudges in england and wales, are being given new powers to force the most serious offenders to appear. if they refuse, they may be given a longer prison term. our home affairs correspondent, tom symonds is here. what exactly is changing with this? this has become a real problem in a recent big trials, notjust lucy letby. you have the families of murder victim is unable to see justice done because the killer won't turn up to be sentenced. now, judges do actually have general powers to force somebody to come to court, including for a sentencing, but the minister ofjustice tell me they have found only one example of that happening in the last ten years, because there is no specific power relating to the sentencing process. so, that is what is changing. it's going to be a two year additional sentence for people who will not comply. increasingly it is obvious with lucy letby that she has been told she will spend the rest of her life in prison, so it will not so much affect her. the other question is, is it possible to drag the body kicking and screaming into a courtroom to keep them quiet during the process? custody staff do have the training to do that. they have the training to do that. they have powers, they are getting more powers with these changes. but they can only use what the law calls reasonable force. and they may say it is not practical, it is too dangerous and it is too disruptive to the court to actually carry this through, and drag somebody into the dock. and they would not be much a judge could do about that, other than perhaps asking for a video link to a prison. labour backed this last year, wants to know it is going to happen quickly, and the government said it would insert this measure into a bill that is going through parliament this autumn. fix, into a bill that is going through parliament this autumn. a powerful hoaan has parliament this autumn. a powerful hogan has hit _ parliament this autumn. a powerful hogan has hit florida _ parliament this autumn. a powerful hogan has hit florida and _ hogan has hit florida and neighbouring georgia is now in its path. powerfulstorm neighbouring georgia is now in its path. powerful storm surges have left some streets completely submerged. the storm surge was always the biggest threat and, as expected, idalia has brought serious flooding to florida's west coast. these residents are being brought out of the evacuation zone, an area where the authorities had been telling people for days that it wasn't safe to stay in their homes. about three o'clock, the water was still two feet below the sea wall, so i went back to bed, and he woke me up about 7:30 and said, "we've got water in the house." so, that's where we're at. did you guys not get the warnings to leave? yes. but we left the last one and didn't have to, so... right. ..we thought we'd be able to sit it out. guess not. don't ever trust the weatherman! the whole front building at the faraway end, - where the swings were, _ just came apart and it's washing up the street towards us. the hurricane made landfall on what's known as florida's big bend, a relatively less populated area of the coast. but once again, the warnings were clear — the floods pose a major threat to life. but while many thousands have followed the advice, others — worried about damage or looting — have taken their chances with the storm. it's just one of these things, you know? in florida, we live with these storms, you know? we live in florida because we don't like snow, but in the fall, we have to deal with storms like this. and unfortunately, these storms move about. they come to the left, they go to the right, we don't know which way they're going. and so a lot of times, peoplejust become, "oh, it's not going to hit us, it's not going to hit us." well, sometimes we get punched in the mouth. another rescue vehicle is heading into the flooded area. they tell us they've brought out around a0 trapped residents so far. more are still inside. a clear illustration of the dangers of not heeding those warnings. the damage to property is expected to be severe, and tens of thousands of engineers and members of the national guard are on standby to deal with the aftermath. communities along florida's gulf coast have been hit hard by the storm surge and it will take some residents weeks if not months to recover from the flooding to their homes and businesses but there is also something of a sense of relief, with the news that so far there have been no confirmed fatalities as a result of the storm apart from the deaths of two drivers killed in the rainy conditions. but the risk remains as the storm continued its way through the state of georgia, as does the longer term concerns referenced by presidentjoe biden himself today. i don't think we can any longer deny the impact of the climate crisis, he told reporters. 0k, climate crisis, he told reporters. ok, john, thank you for that, live on the west coast of florida. the foreign secretary, james cleverly, has defended talks with officials in china, telling the bbc it wouldn't be "credible" to disengage. he's the first senior member of the government to visit beijing in more than five years. he acknowledged that china wouldn't change "overnight," but insisted that a "pragmatic" relationship with the country was necessary to tackle global issues like climate change. james cleverley has been speaking to our china correspondent stephen mcdonnell. after a five—year wait, a senior uk government figure was finally back in the chinese capital. the foreign secretary was here to rebuild relations with an economic giant but he was copping flak back home from some in his own party for talking to an ever more oppressive government. yet james cleverly told the bbc that a loss of face—to—face interaction risks promoting misinterpretations, mistrust and errors. well, ifundamentally disagree with those voices, including people i regard as good friends, who feel that we should disengage from china. i don't think that is a credible option. i do believe we have influence and i do believe that we should use that influence. but, i mean, can you point to any breakthroughs on any trips like this in the past which have actually changed human rights on the ground here, something concrete? i am realistic that that influence is not going to have an instant reaction, which is why we have to be patient and we have to be consistent. and that is why i bring up issues around human rights, xinjiang, hong kong, and indeed individual cases, every single time i have meetings with representatives of the chinese government and we make sure that they understand how strongly we feel about those. the uk's foreign secretary also said he would call on the chinese government to urge russia to end its invasion of ukraine, despite beijing's support for the kremlin. and i don't think it is in china's interests in any way for there to be a perception that they are actively or even passively supporting putin's brutal actions and i've made that point. but does beijing care about that? i mean, look, they... i do think, in the conversations i have had, i think beijing do care about what the world thinks of them. even trade talks can be tense these days, with allegations of cyber espionage, design theft and commercial bullying. given that parliament's intelligence and security committee has warned about china having successfully penetrated every sector of the british economy, how does your government manage that and still have good trade relations with china? if there is ever a situation where our security concerns are at odds with our economic concerns, our security concerns win out. so much of the criticism that was highlighted in that report has already been addressed by the british government. the foreign secretary's trip comes at a new difficult period for western relations with china... we're a big investor in china. ..with all parties trying to work outjust how far cooperation should go and when the lines need to be drawn in the sand. so visits like this can offer plenty of opportunities. they are also throwing up lots of challenges. stephen mcdonell, bbc news, beijing. let's take a look at some of the day's other top stories. the president of the central african state of gabon, ali bongo, has appealed for help after being deposed by the army in a coup. he's now under house arrest. the military as named one of its generals as the country is transitional leader, and a link the result of the election on saturday in which he was declared the winner. a crowdfunding page for the family of a police officer who died after being hit by a train has raised over £100,000. sergeant graham saville died yesterday after he was struck while responding to concerns over a man's safety, on thursday. the 46—year—old nottinghamshire officer died in hospital with his family beside him. a former employee of the gchq intelligence agency has pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a woman who worked at the same base in cheltenham. the old bailey heard that joshua bowles, who's 29, punched and stabbed the victim multiple times outside a leisure centre in march. the woman works for the us national security agency and isn't being named. vaccines to protect at—risk people against covid and flu this winter will be rolled out a month earlier than planned in england because of the emergence of a new covid variant. anybody over 65, older adult care home residents and immunosuppressed people are to receive jabs from the 11th of september. the global video gaming industry is big business, reckoned to be worth around £250 billion in the next few years. well, now one big media company, netflix, has been telling the bbc about its plans to increase its presence in the gaming world, as steffan powell reports from liverpool. thanks to shows like stranger things, squid game, the crown and others, netflix helped change the entertainment landscape. now, if i said to you i was on the set of a netflix production, this isn't necessarily what you'd have in mind. you'd be thinking of big spaces, with cameras, actors and directors making television and movies. but it is development studios like this one, in liverpool, that could hold the key to the streaming giant's future. a lot of gamers play chess... to not fall behind its rivals, netflix is turning to companies like ripstone, who make video games. because you're a female in a gaming world, we really wanted to tap into that and help people learn chess. since 2021, the streaming service has offered subscribers the chance to play games on its app. the offering hasn't captured the imagination of the games industry so far, but there are now 70 playable titles and more being made, tied to their intellectual property. games is a really huge part of entertainment, and so it really is a natural progression for us to start thinking about how to offer games to our members. so to stay relevant, netflix is trying to leverage its famous franchises to have a stake in an industry that sees mobile games like candy crush make £135 billion a year. but success is not guaranteed. other mainstream entertainment and technology companies like amazon and google have tried. earlier this year, google's stadia service was shut down, and amazon laid off workers at its games division. i think when mainstream entertainment organisations have tried to enter the games space, they've struggled a little bit, and i think most of that comes down to the fact that they fundamentally misunderstood what it is about games that people love in the first place. they had these big budgets behind them, but ultimately lacked the creativity and uniqueness that we've come to expect. netflix is trying something slightly different, focusing on mobile games that are cheaper and quicker to make, so easier to build up a big portfolio. but the risk is that this approach could lack a scale and ambition to grab players�* attention in a crowded market. but in liverpool, the belief is their involvement will open doors. netflix has an audience of 238 million people now, many of which probably have never experienced a game before, so i think it'll make the games' audience bigger. and so in this fierce battle for subscribers, netflix hopes this gaming gambit is a good move. steffan powell, bbc news. rangers have missed the chance the reach the champions league group stages this evening, with a defeat on aggregate to psv eindhoven 7—3. rangers will instead play in this year's europa league, as katie gornall reports. you could be forgiven a sense of deja vu in eindhoven. a year ago, rangers beat psv here to reach the champions league group stages for the first time in a decade. they've been here and done it. could they do it again? rangers started brightly but the warning signs were there from psv, as ismael saibari landed the first blow. and the header comes in from saibari, who scores! there's no stopping those. michael beale knew once again his side would have to beat the odds as well as the dutch but in the second half, saibari made that task even harder. fans feared the worst, so too the players. they needed a lifeline and their captain delivered. james tavernier scores! but their hope lasted all of 91 seconds as luke dejong had the philips stadium bouncing once again. psv would score a fourth before it would get even worse for rangers — an own goal to round the night off. it's a disaster for rangers. psv had their reward and their revenge, while rangers have little time to lick their wounds. it's celtic next. katie gornall, bbc news. this is pretty rare but it has been lighting up the night sky, a blue supersuper lighting up the night sky, a blue super super medill i think sky watchers. this is it over london and this is a time—lapse of it over limit in cheshire. it's a supermoon, much larger and brighter than usual, because it's near the closest point in its orbit around earth. it's also called a blue moon, because it's the second full moon in a single month — something that doesn't happen very often. and this is a live shot of it over north london tonight — something we won't see for another decade. beat that, chris! it's a deal! take a look at this! everyone is showing the moon tonight but this was from derbyshire underneath clear skies, and actually, even though there is quite actually, even though there is quite a bit of cloud in western areas, i have seen some photos of the moon in northern ireland and parts of south—west england so this is initially high cloud working in on this front but ultimately this front is on the weight tomorrow and it will bring outbreaks of rain, particularly in the south and west whereas the north—east will have some decent weather. overnight we have clear skies for the most part tonight, a bit of high cloud working in from the west and by the end of the night we will start to these splashes of rain coming in with temperatures of 12—14 as the cloud encourages but otherwise quite chilly, temperatures of 8—10 . a lovely start tomorrow, scotland and a good part of england but the rain with us from the word go in northern ireland, wales, south—west england and through the day it will work its way into the midlands, east anglia and south—east england, the heaviest in southern wales and south—west england but it should stay dry with decent centre of the day in scotland and the far north of england with temperatures in the high teens and low 20s for most. on friday, the low pressure starts to pull away, leaving us with some cloud, particularly in northern ireland and northern england where there will be showers but elsewhere, sunny spells, won to pull away, leaving us with some cloud, particularly in northern ireland and northern england where there will be showers but elsewhere, sunny spells, 12 showers in the afternoon a bad day, temperatures but then there is a real change in the weather patterns at the weekend put an stock to built in, something we have not seen much of in the last does mean that the weather for most of us will be dry and sunny, not just for the weekend but well into next week with at rising temperatures and we could see highs of 2a degrees. temperatures and we could see highs of 24 degrees-—