from being declared independent. and queen elizabeth ii becomes the world s second longest serving monarch only louis xiv of france has ruled for longer. hello and welcome to bbc news. ukrainian officials in the town of severodonetsk say they re still in control of the azot chemical plant where hundreds of civilians have been sheltering. the governor of the region said fierce fighting was cotinuing. it comes as ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has said his troops are running low on ammunition as they try to repel russian invaders in the east. mr zelensky says his forces are holding on for now as they engage in fierce street fighting but he appealed for more help from western powers. helena wilkinson has the latest. this is the east of ukraine, in the donbas region, it s one of the areas russian forces have focused their firepower. ukraine soldiers are still holding out here, but the intense fighting goes on. ukraine s army says it is running low on artillery she
china says it ll fight to the very end to prevent taiwan from being declared independent. and queen elizabeth ii becomes the world s second longest serving monarch only louis xiv of france has ruled for longer. hello and welcome to bbc news. reports from eastern ukraine say a huge chemical plant in the town of severodonetsk where hundreds of people have been sheltering is on fire. the governor of the region says the azot plant had come under intense bombardment but was still under ukrainian control. the fierce fighting comes as ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky says his troops are running low on ammunition as they try to repel russian invaders in the east. and he s appealed for more help from western powers. helena wilkinson has the latest. this is the east of ukraine, in the donbas region, it s one of the areas russian forces have focused their firepower. ukraine soldiers are still holding out here, but the intense fighting goes on. ukraine s army says it is running l
their everyday lives. this government their everyday lives. this government is their everyday lives. this government is acting - their everyday lives. this government is acting as| their everyday lives. this government is acting as arsonists rather government is acting as arsonists rather than government is acting as arsonists rather than firefighters, it s grossly rather than firefighters, it s grossly irresponsible. tens of thousands rally across the us to call for stricter gun laws, in the wake of recent mass shootings. china says it ll fight to the very end to prevent taiwan from being declared independent. and queen elizabeth ii becomes the world s second longest serving monarch only louis xiv of france has ruled for longer. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. reports from eastern ukraine say a huge chemical plant in the town of severodonetsk where hundreds of people have been sheltering is on fire. the governor of the region sa
And people are streaming through, laying sort of flowers like this, putting photographs of prigozhin as well, people saying in this hell, he was the best. people talking about him in the past tense over here. if we look, wagner arm patches, wagner chevrons here that have been put all over the place. you re seeing a lot of people, family members of people who are in wagner, wagner soldiers themselves coming here to pay their respects. this woman here, i don t know if she speaks [ speaking in a non-english language ] she s not she doesn t want to speak to us. it is quite solemn situation. another photograph of prigozhin over there. this is very interesting because somebody here, look, has put this really heavy, really heavy
Retrospect, huge mistake by yevgeny prigozhin. he is very fondly remembered in st. petersburg in the sense that t there is this makeshift memorial that sprung up here in his home city right outside the wagner headquarters from where all the operations were controlled here in st. petersburg. it s not a huge thing. but there are memorials like this popping up all over the country in various cities from where wagner drew their mercenary fighters. there is a photograph here. it s yevgeny prigozhin carrying a weapon. it says, in this hell, in russian, in this hell, he was the best. so talking about him very much in the past tense, even though it s not officially confirmed that he is his body was actually in that wreckage. you can see the flowers here. the arm patches from the wagner group that people have put here. you are seeing all sorts of people come. we spotted a few earlier, this is a slow trickle of people, members of wagner, family