troops continuing in the east of the country under their new theatre commander, general aleksandr dvornikov, who was responsible for so much devastation in syria. what effect will all this brutality have on the people of ukraine? seeing someone whose life is stretching out ahead of her absolutely broken is awful. how nervous is europe becoming about the possibility of a french president le pen? it would change france s place, notjust in the european union, but among the international community. and sri lanka, enduring the worst economic crisis since independence from britain. people really feel like this island nation is on the brink. the bbc s put a huge amount of effort into reporting the war in ukraine. many, many correspondents there covering the fighting and covering the rest of the story. panic must have ensued. but i have to say that one person s reporting in particular has stood out, that ofjeremy bowen. and, jeremy, you and i have been colleagues and friends for mo
are on high alert for further floods as more rain is expected over the weekend. and plans to send asylum seekers from the uk to rwanda are a breach of international law, according to the un s refugee agency. emergency teams around the ukrainian capital are responding to a second day of russian attacks on military industrial facilities in kyiv. the city s mayor, vitali klitschko, said one person had been killed and several others injured. tensions have been rising since russia s flagship boat, the moskva, sank in the black sea. the ukrainians say it was hit by their missiles before it went down. today, russia has banned borisjohnson and other senior uk figures from entering their country. and in the last few hours, the russian defence ministry has said it has cleared the entire urban area of mariupol of ukrainian forces and had blockaded fighters at a major steelworks in the city, though we cannot independently verify those claims. 0ur correspondent mark lowen reports from kyi
flooding in decades and are widening the search for those still missing. asylum seekers could be flown from the uk to rwanda within weeks under new plans from the british government, but some charities and politicians say the are proposals cruel and chilling. now on bbc news, unspun world provides an unvarnished version of the week s major global news stories reliable, honest and essential viewing with the bbc s world affairs editor, john simpson. hello, and thanks for watching unspun world, where we go below the surface of global events with the bbc s experts. ukraine is in its new phase, with a big build up of russian troops continuing in the east of the country under their new theatre commander, general aleksandr dvornikov, who was responsible for so much devastation in syria. what effect will all this brutality have on the people of ukraine? seeing someone whose life is stretching out ahead of her absolutely broken is awful. how nervous is europe becoming about the poss
force entirely focused on al. i the city of bakhmut, in ukraine, now seems to be pretty much entirely in russian hands. capturing it took almost a year and cost thousands of casualties and all for a place that, right from the start, military experts said didn t have any discernible strategic value. but there s no doubt that belatedly, the russians have learned to fight better. and nato s weapons aren t reaching ukraine in sufficient quantities yet. few expected this ceasefire to hold in any way. it was. the bbc correspondent james waterhouse has covered the war from its earliest stages. i caught up with him when he had just arrived in the city of dnipro to report on the fighting in southeastern ukraine. there isn t a single ukrainian city which is untouched by russia s latest tactic, really, and we thought its strategy of targeting ukraine s infrastructure would stop as the weather improved. but it s clear that the kremlin wants to sustain the pressure on both the ukrainian