Following last years Military Supplies such as bulletproof vests and helmets, we will support Military Supplies on a large scale this year. Translation i can happily state that the agreement to transfer i the transport and special equipment including demining cars is already being executed. It helps us save lives. Live now to our Diplomatic Correspondent james landale. We dont often see asian leaders in ukraine. Can you give us a sense of the significance of this visit . Thats right. We dont often see them there with the president of indonesia went last year, the japanese president earlier this year, china has sent an envoy earlier this year but this is few and far between. Kyiv is a Conveyor Belt of european and american politicians visiting on a daily basis. So it is unusual and diplomats will take comfort from this because one of the great failures of the west, europe and the United States in this war, has been to convince the rest of the world that it matters to them as well. Large parts of the world see this war as a european issue and are frustrated that the war continues because it disrupts their own economies and europe in ukraine, they are states say no, this matters to you as well, it matters about sovereignty, territorial integrity, universal concerns. Having a country like south korea visit ukraine, i think its the First Time Ever that this leader has been to ukraine. It is significant because the messages, look, south korea of all countries is concerned about the threats to its territorial integrity to a neighbour. They have something in common with ukraine and the russian situation. Diplomatically, its symbolically significant. find situation. Diplomatically, its symbolically significant. And south korean president symbolically significant. And south korean president said symbolically significant. And south korean president said he symbolically significant. And south korean president said he would korean president said he would expand his countrys military and humanitarian aid for ukraine. That sounds like a win for president zelensky. Sounds like a win for president zelens. ~. , sounds like a win for president zelens. ~. ,. ,. , zelensky. What we have to do here is read between zelensky. What we have to do here is read between the zelensky. What we have to do here is read between the lines. Zelensky. What we have to do here is read between the lines. In zelensky. What we have to do here is read between the lines. In terms zelensky. What we have to do here is read between the lines. In terms of l read between the lines. In terms of the absolute amount, shifting from hundred Million Dollars to 150 million in humanitarian aid in the year cycles of money but in The Grand Scheme of things its not. The United States so far has given north of £40 billion to ukraine since the invasion last year. What south korea is doing is pretty modest. But also remember his talk about support, increasing support. Non lethal military aid, we are talking logistical support, helmets, military aid, we are talking logisticalsupport, helmets, body logistical support, helmets, body armour, logisticalsupport, helmets, body armour, medications, de mining equipment, things like that. All those things that are useful but i think what is significant as this, the fact that president zelensky didnt make a grand demand saying we want your weapons because south korea has lots of weapons, lots of stockpiles of exactly the kind of shells the president zelensky once. The fact that zelensky didnt ask for those publicly suggests at the moment, he is content for south korea to sell lots of weapons to European Countries who are replenishing their own stocks and the suggestion, the speculation, understanding is that some of those weapons enter ukraine via a third party. Technically, they are not south korean but they are helping the ukrainian war effort and i think that something at the moment ukraine seems to contend with. find that something at the moment ukraine seems to contend with. Seems to contend with. And south korea, a seems to contend with. And south korea. A big seems to contend with. And south korea, a big economy seems to contend with. And south korea, a big economy and seems to contend with. And south korea, a big economy and power l seems to contend with. And south | korea, a big economy and power in its region. How will other countries in that asian area of the Asian Pacific feel about this visit . Will there be pressure on them to respond in a similarway there be pressure on them to respond in a similar way as you say, japanese Prime Minister has a ready visited. I japanese Prime Minister has a ready visited. , � ~ japanese Prime Minister has a ready visited. , � ~ , visited. I dont think it will put much pressure visited. I dont think it will put much pressure our visited. I dont think it will put much pressure our a visited. I dont think it will put much pressure our a bus visited. I dont think it will put i much pressure our a bus simply because they had a long time to make their decision on this and most of them thus far have stayed largely out of it because they have seen it as a european war and they have been nervous about disrupting the global economy, the fact it has an impact on fertiliser, food prices, inflation more generally. That is their concern rather than whether or not they should support kyiv in its war effort. It was interesting to south korea is south korea has to be very careful about its concerns about north korea, alienating russia too much because russia could put pressure on north korea to act in certain ways and i think that is something south korea is nervous about. But whats interesting is south korea is having to deal with that classic tussle that many other countries are dealing with between competing pressures, on the one hand economic stability and not disrupting their own trade flows in the area but equally, they want to say, actually we do need to do more to support democracy and sovereignty and territorial integrity. In other words, there is an argument and they want to be on the right side of the argument. It seems that korea and south korea at least is edging a little closer to that argument. Thank you very much for that analysis. Much of Southern Europe is dealing with a blistering heatwave. Red alerts which indicate risks even for Healthy People have been issued for 16 cities across italy for the coming days. They include Tourist Attractions rome and florence. Meanwhile extreme heat is also affecting the south west of the us and is set to intensify there over the weekend. Leigh milner has the story. Its hot, very hot. And its only going to get hotter. As temperatures rise across the world, so do concerns for peoples health. In italy, red alerts have been issued for 16 cities, with temperatures expected to reach 47 degrees celsius on tuesday. Translation you physically suffer from this heat, which also lasts for a long time. It doesnt stop after a few days like it did a few years ago. Now, this heat lasts for more than a month. We really feel the effects. In athens, greeces most popular attraction, the acropolis, is being closed during the hottest hours of the day to protect visitors. But for some, the heat wont stop them. The heat . Its hard, but were going to push through it. And, you know, i dont know if i will ever be back, so i have to take advantage of the day. Meanwhile, greek medics have been busy working alongside the red cross. Were here again to give people water, and also to give leaflets concerning the High Temperature period here in greece. In croatia, this man lost his home to wildfires which have swept along the west coast. How big is that . You can see it over the fence. Over in spain, this family were lucky. The field next to us is just completely burnt. Theres a few bits of grass just here and there towards the edges that have been able to survive. But the vast majority of it isjust black and ashes. Luckily, both ourselves and the neighbour that we were helping were able to, sort of, save our gardens, just working as a collective. But its notjust europe feeling the heat. Across the United States, temperatures are breaking record highs that have stood for decades. In el paso, texas, temperatures soared to above 37 degrees for 27 consecutive days, overtaking a record set in 1994. Experts sayjune was the hottest month on record globally. We can only expect more hot weather to come over the next coming days. Leigh milner, bbc news. Here in the uk theres a call for Disposable Vapes to be banned by next year. Local councils in england and wales want the devices to be outlawed saying they cause litter problems, are a fire hazard and appeal too strongly to children. But the uk Vaping Industry Association says Disposable Vapes help smokers quit, and can be recycled. Councillor David Fothergill whos the chair of the lgas Community Wellbeing board, told me what he hopes to achieve with the ban. Were becoming increasingly concerned about the sale of Disposable Vapes and from the outset i want to stress that vaping with rechargeable and Refillable Vapes is a really good way to stop smoking so if you are a smoker and want to get off the Nicotine Habit, vaping is a really good option and i would encourage a refillable and rechargeable one. The problem is with the single use throwaway vapes. One problem is its attracting particularly youngsters into the market and developing a Nicotine Habit and secondly a big Environmental Concern about throwing away 1. 3 million Disposable Vapes every week. 1. 3 million every week. Its clear that you want to ban the disposable element. Its going to be quite hard to implement, presumably if this goes ahead. We have to come back to what the effect of these disposable single use vapes are. As i say, 1. 3 million which are being thrown away each week now, many of them are thrown responsibly into rubbish bins and refuse sacks but many end up on the floors, communities are finding out. If they were all thrown on the floor, it would cover 22 football pitches a week. Fortunately thats not the case but any communities are fine vapes thrown on the floor as litter and that impacts local wildlife and all sorts because they contain Lithium Batteries and that is a problem when they go into our refuse trucks. Lithium batteries are crystallised in plastic and that plastic is crushed and the Lithium Batteries pose a realfire hazard. So you would ban the sale of Disposable Vapes altogether . If we dont do this, if we dont do it quickly, we will see an influx of Disposable Vapes. 1. 3 million a week, that will begin to look like a very small figure if that happens. And its important for people who want to give up smoking and can be a useful device to wean people off that. Disposable vapes can be cheaper and given the cost of living crisis at the moment and inflation being high, it would be removing the more affordable option away from people. Those who want to give up smoking and vaping is an Excellent Way of doing that, they can receive support through the nhs and buy a refillable, Rechargeable Vape which is an original high cost but then saves money over time. The prom with Disposable Vapes as they are one off and easily accessible and then thrown away. Vapes by youngsters who are coming into the Nicotine Market what were seeing is a dramatic increase in the sale of Disposable Vapes by youngsters who are coming into the Nicotine Market rather than people trying to the smoking market. Thats posing a problem to youngsters� developmental age. We dont know the impact of a Nicotine Addiction on their own development. Now its time for a look at todays sport with paul scott. Hello from the bbc sport centre. Lets start at wimbledon, as the womens Singles Final is under way on centre court. Last years beaten finalist 0ns jabeur looking to go one better this time around is taking on marketa vondrousova. But its the czech player, a former french open finalist herself, who took the first set 6 4. She also took an early break in the second, but jabeur broke back. You can of course follow all the action on the bbc sport website and app. Great britains alfie hewett is through to the mens wheelchair Singles Final, after defeating martin de la puente in straight sets. The 25 year old second seed, beat the spaniard 6 3, 6 2 under the roof on court 0ne. Hell face japans tokito 0da in sundays final after the top seed beat british number two gordon reid 6 3, 6 4. Carlos alcaraz says the blockbuster mens Singles Final against Novak Djokovic is going to be the best moment of his life. The world number one is gunning for his First Wimbledon title, but is up against the toughest test of all in djokovic, who has eyes on a record equalling eighth success on centre court. Theres a 16 year age gap between the two players, as alcaraz looks to dethrone the seven time wimbledon champion. Judging by the performances that we have seen from all the players, i think this is the best finals we could have, he is one of the quickest guys on the tour and can do pretty much anything on the court. We are both in good form and playing well, we are both wanting to take this title. Arsenal have confirmed the signing of england midfielder declan rice from west ham for £100 million, plus £5 million in add ons. Rice scored 15 goals in 245 games for west ham, having joined the club as a 14 year old. He captained west ham to the Europa Conference League title last season. In a letter to fans the 24 year old thanked west ham supporters and the club for so � many great memories and highlights�. But says his decision is ultimately about his ambition to play at the very highest level of the game. Rory mcilroy still leads the way after the third round at the Scottish 0pen the start of which was brought forward because of impending bad weather. The Northern Irishman hoping to win a fifth major next week, at the open, led at the half way point. He� s now 13 under for the tournament. South korea� s tom kim is hot on his heels though. Tommy fleetwood� s flown up the leaderboard he finished seven under for the round. We� re into the last few days of competition at the world para athletics championships in paris britain sit fourth in the medals table. But today� s a busy one, plenty more opportunities for medals later on saturday. Rachael latham is there for us. Great britain has won a gold medal every day since the competition started a week ago and there are five more medal opportunities tonight including dan pembroke and the newly crowned Sammi Kinghorn goes again. It� ll be head to head between her and catherine debrunner. Debrunner has a ready won three golds but it was kinghorn� s history last night. For more on these and other sports stories, you can go to our app or website. That� s bbc. Com. Sport. Including live text Commentary On Stage 14 of the tour de france, where yonas vingergaur� s lead in the Yellow Jersey is just nine seconds. Let� s get more on the tennis at wimbledon 0ns Jabeur Making A Second Attempt in a row to Win Wimbledon and become the first african or arab woman to win a grand slam singles title. Live now to tunis with Haythem Abidi who is a tennis coach for the under 12 girls� National Team in tunisia. Thank you forjoining us. You must be very excited about this match. Already setting and nicely stop however feeling . Already setting and nicely stop howeverfeeling . They already setting and nicely stop however feeling . They must be glued their screens. However feeling . They must be glued their screene their screens. Yes, very excited and nervous at their screens. Yes, very excited and nervous at the their screens. Yes, very excited and nervous at the same their screens. Yes, very excited and nervous at the same time. Their screens. Yes, very excited and nervous at the same time. 23 their screens. Yes, very excited and l nervous at the same time. 23 second set. And nervous at the same time. 23 second set and in nervous at the same time. 23 second set. And in terms nervous at the same time. 23 second set. And in terms of nervous at the same time. 23 second set. And in terms of the nervous at the same time. 23 second set. And in terms of the aussie set. And in terms of the aussie coach, there is a 12 year old girls number. How do they feel . They must be so inspired by 0ns jabeur. Absolutely. Everyone asked for the day after day just to watch the finals. The girls are super thrilled because they feel the closest to her. Everyone is taking photos with her. Everyone is taking photos with her or spoken to her directly at least once in their lives because she� s an amazing person and gives great interest to the kids who want to follow in her footsteps. Everyone is cheering for her tonight. What is cheering for her tonight. What would it mean is cheering for her tonight. What would it mean for is cheering for her tonight. What would it mean for you is cheering for her tonight. What would it mean for you in is cheering for her tonight. What would it mean for you in the is cheering for her tonight. What would it mean for you in the country if she went on to win the title . I if she went on to win the title . 1 think it will change the if she went on to win the title . I think it will change the perspective of tennis in tunisia once and for all. When we were kids and wanted to play tennis at this high level, usually players were europeans or americans and the dream would feel so far away. Even going to watch it, the parents would underestimate our dreams and say this is far away from reality. But now 0ns jabeur is playing at the high stage and hopefully can make it this time and Win Wimbledon. It� s absolutely going to change the tennis scene in tunisia once and for all. I think it� s notable that in the developing countries, there is less access to resources so we see a recent trend in the past years that the best african players travel to train in europe or england so are given more opportunities but when we come back to the importance of 0ns jabeur because now she� s on the big stage, she will be breaking a lot more sponsors, a lot more opportunities to these players. find sponsors, a lot more opportunities to these playm to these players. And in terms of her personal to these players. And in terms of her personal career, to these players. And in terms of her personal career, she to these players. And in terms of her personal career, she has to these players. And in terms of. Her personal career, she has faced a few lost finals and the recent passes, two grand slam finals she didn� t quite clinch the title. People have spoken about her mental strength and agility to go through that all and get to this situation again. Would you think of her Journey Specificallyi again. Would you think of her journey specifically again. Would you think of her journey specifically i think 0ns jabeur is not journey specifically i think 0ns jabeur is not carlos journey specifically i think 0ns jabeur is not Carlos Alcaraz. Journey specifically i think 0ns| jabeur is not Carlos Alcaraz and Carlos Alcaraz is not every other player. We can� t compare these two supernatural players that make it from the first time. 0ns jabeur has been on a great road to glory and with patients, everything will come to a good end because everyone knows 0ns jabeur is an absolute fighter and whatever life throws at her she can handle it. We are glad to see her come through both finals that she lost and is clinging onto this second set and hopefully we will see how in this role. find second set and hopefully we will see how in this role. How in this role. And before i let ou no, how in this role. And before i let you go. What how in this role. And before i let you go. What your how in this role. And before i let you go, what your prediction . I how in this role. And before i let i you go, what your prediction . How how in this role. And before i let you go, what your prediction . How do you go, what your prediction . How do you think it will turn out . I� m a you think it will turn out . Im a bit biased you think it will turn out . Im a bit biased on you think it will turn out . Im a bit biased on this you think it will turn out . Im a bit biased on this one you think it will turn out . Im a bit biased on this one but you think it will turn out . Im a bit biased on this one but i you think it will turn out . Im a l bit biased on this one but i think i� m a bit worried because longer games on saturday and she� s a bit tired but let� s hope she can pull it through and go to a third set and make it. She will need skills at some point, talent will decide this one. � ~ , some point, talent will decide this one. � ~ , some point, talent will decide this one. ~ ,. , some point, talent will decide this one. ~ ,. ,. , some point, talent will decide this one. ~ ,. ,. ,. , one. Are kept you long enough. Go on and watch the one. Are kept you long enough. Go on and watch the rest one. Are kept you long enough. Go on and watch the rest of one. Are kept you long enough. Go on and watch the rest of the one. Are kept you long enough. Go on and watch the rest of the tennis. And watch the rest of the tennis. Thank you forjoining us. Since the start of the war in Ukraine Energy prices have soared in many parts of the world here in the uk the government launched a scheme last winter to give households a £400 Energy Bill Subsidy. That� s about 520 usd. But another scheme was launched to ensure the scheme has now been labelled a staggering failure. The mp who chairs the Parliamentary Energy select committee has urged the uk government to relaunch the scheme, after bbc analysis revealed that 80 of households that were eligible didn� t get the money. Let� s get more on this with our Business Correspondent marc ashdown. Mark, lots of people might not know about the subsidy in the first place. Can you give us more detail on how art works . Place. Can you give us more detail on how art works . Absolutely. Cast our mind on how art works . Absolutely. Cast your mind Back On How Art Works . Absolutely. Cast your mind back to on how art works . Absolutely. Cast your mind back to october on how art works . Absolutely. Cast your mind back to october when i on how art works . Absolutely. Castl your mind back to october when this all started, the energy crisis. The government came in with financial help, one of those was a payment of £400 they pledged to every uk Domestic Household and anyone who pays the bills via direct debit, their supplier got £66 of the bill will automatically. Their supplier got £66 of the bill willautomatically. But their supplier got £66 of the bill will automatically. But not everyone has a traditional living arrangement, people live in all sorts of ways. Some of every they set up an Alternative Funding Scheme for people with different arrangements. These are people for example he may live on a boat or in a park home or travellers who move around a lot, or tenants who live in shared Energy Arrangements and People Living in care homes. What� s happened here is bbc� s Moneybox Programme on radio four crunched the numbers to see how many people that applied to and found across the uk, 900,000 people live off grids and were eligible to apply to the funding scheme. It closed in march and what the founders when it shut, 750,000 people, around 80 , hadn� t managed to get the money. We heard stories of people who manage to apply various times and were knocked back several reasons. Around £300 million now we are estimating set aside to help people has gone back into the treasury coffers. find aside to help people has gone back into the treasury coffers. Into the treasury coffers. And we know why those into the treasury coffers. And we know why those people into the treasury coffers. And we know why those people didnt into the treasury coffers. And we | know why those people didnt get into the treasury coffers. And we know why those people didnt get the know why those people didn� t get the help they were eligible for . Firfitir; help they were eligible for . Firstly we had to jump help they were eligible for . Firstly we had to jump through help they were eligible for . Firstly we had to jump through some help they were eligible for . F stly we had tojump through some hoops. We had to jump through some hoops. Speaking for myself, a jewel full player and it was massively came off my bill so i didn� t have to do anything but if you had to go and act apply, that becomes a bit more laborious and has the potential that things break down. As an mp who came out today, Angus Macneil, they scrutinise Energy Policy and says the government should look again at this because these people do tend to be vulnerable at times and he thinks the government should reopen the scheme and in his words should move heaven and on and on earth to get money to these people because it� s been a staggering failure. It� s been set up to help them and has failed to achieve that. We spoke to the Energy Department and said they spent billions of pounds to protect families when we had that spike in Energy Prices including £50 million to help these canned households. An and 30,000 households they� d helped don� t have a Domestic Energy supplier. Doesn� t seem that they are willing to reopen it but we will see because grant shapps is due to appear before Angus Macneil and his influential committee for a grilling influential committee for a grilling in september. I wonder if this won� t be finished just yet. In september. I wonder if this wont be finished just yet. Be finished ust yet. Thank you very much. You be finished just yet. Thank you very much you can be finished just yet. Thank you very much. You can read be finished just yet. Thank you very much. You can read more be finished just yet. Thank you very much. You can read more about. Be finished just yet. Thank you very l much. You can read more about that on our website. Let me bring you some pictures from the city of cheongju, in south korea. Rescue workers have been battling to reach some 15 cars trapped in a 430 metre long sections of underground tunnel. It� s the third day of torrential rains in south korea, which have caused landslides and overflowed a dam. Similar Weather Conditions have been reported in china and india. You can get more on that story on our website and app. Stay with us on bbc news. Good afternoon. The weather storyjust past has certainly left us questioning where on earth has our summer gone . It has been pretty wet at times, hasn� t it . And unseasonably windy. We are midway throuthuly and you are quite right, it has been a wet month. All of us have seen above average rainfall for the month and there is very little change i� m afraid on the horizon. In fact, this next chart shows Rainfall Accumulation for the next few days. The darker the blue, the wettest of the weather, so always wettest out of the north and west but all of us are going to continue to see this unsettled spell of weather. Low pressure with us this weekend centred to the north west at the moment. Circulating around the low is a rash of frequent heavy showers. Some of them merging together for longer spells of rain. And there is going to be little change as we go into the afternoon. Some of those showers heavy possibly thundery as well. Not all of us will see some showers. There will still be some sunny spells and perhaps through east anglia and South East England by the end of the afternoon, the further risk of those showers starting to ease a little. But it is blustery, especially across the south east. 45 to 50 mph winds. Unseasonably windy for this time of year. Top temperatures perhaps peaking between 16 and 22 degrees. Still, a little bit disappointing. As we go through the evening, we still run the risk of further showers and overnight tonight, we could still have the odd rumble of thunder mixed in as well. Showers merging together for longer spells of rain across the far north west. 0vernight lows between 12 and 14 degrees. As we move into sunday, that low pressure finally pulls away over into scandinavia. The winds will gradually start to ease down, coming from a north westerly direction, never a warm source, that will drive more outbreaks of rain into the far north and west. Still the risk of some showers for sunday but not as many as the last couple of days and hopefully, there will be a little more in the way of sunshine around but because of the direction of that wind source, those temperatures a little bit disappointing still, around 14 to 21 celsius, a maximum of 70 fahrenheit. And that unsettled theme is continuing for the foreseeable future, showers or longer spells of rain. There will be some sunny spells. Temperatures about where they should be for this time of year. Failure by a senior mp. This is bbc news. The headlines on a surprise visit to kyiv, south korea� s president , yoon suk yeol, says he will expand his country� s military aid for ukraine. Dozens of cities in Southern Europe remain on red alert as temperatures continue to soar across the continent. In the uk, a scheme designed to help people who missed out on last winter� s Energy Bill Subsidy has been described as a staggering for the highest level
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