welcome, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. let s start by going to westminster. in the next 30 minutes mps will debate that dramatic report from last week which found boris johnson repeatedly misled parliament about lockdown parties at downing street. he called that conclusions arranged and described the committee which carried out the investigation as a kangaroo court. they recommended a 90 day suspension but mrjohnson had stood down as an mp. 0ne mrjohnson had stood down as an mp. one more thing to the mix, the bbc has seen in invitation to a jingle and mingle event from december 2020, held at conservative headquarters when london was under cupboard restrictions banning indoor socialising. video of the event emerged over the weekend showing a roomful of people in close proximity with some apparentlyjoking about covid regulations. let s bring you the latest. rishi sunak is not expected to attend this afternoon s debate. the prime ministe
su ccesses successes in its counteroffensive russian positions. specifically in the donetsk and zaporizhzhia regions. donetsk ukraine have been pushing against the gains from last week. officials say ukraine is working on attacking lines in the other directions. the deputy defence minister said within the past week eight settlements had been liberated including. heading eight settlements had been liberated heading towards the russian occupied town. a bbc team joined the ukrainian army brigade as they sought to push eastwards beyond the recently regained village on a hot day east of blahodatne, the ukrainian attack begins. explosions. the air thickens with artillery and expectation. ukrainian guns pound the russian positions. ..and their enemy soon responds. nearby explosions. but it s a miss. yuri, of the drone unit, cannot wait for the shelling to stop. the drones he s sending to enemy trenches carry grenades and smoke bombs. they lose as many as five of these a day. and the
been protesting for a second day in paris and a number of other french cities. this follows president macron s decision to force through pension reforms to raise the national retirement age from 62 to 64 without a parliamentary vote. in about ten minutes on bbc news, it s newswatch. but first here s click. the cars can go from 0 to 100 in four seconds. they are made of 80,000 parts. the brakes can hit 1000 degrees. this is formula 1. this year s season is getting under way and it is jampacked full of tech, and it s not just the cars. yeah it s all about the data these days. they collect as much of it as they can from on and off the track to help make decisions which could change the results, and alistair keane has been given exclusive access to the alpine f1 team to find out how they race. being behind the wheel of a formula 1 car is a privilege. driving the fastest car in the world, the adrenaline rush is so high. it s a privilege because there are more than 1000 people work
several thousand people in france are protesting the changes to the pension system with demonstrators lighting firecrackers and filling in the liniment police. just going 8:30 p:m.. coming up shortly if news watch but first it s time to escape with the travel show. i m beginning this week in northern france on a journey that 2.5 million people take each year. you kind of get an idea of how popular this place must be because it s off season, it s super cold, but this bus is packed. you can see, i ve just got a glimpse of the abbey. it does look pretty special. this is mont saintmichel, one of france s most visited sites. it s an island off the coast of brittany in normandy, connected to the mainland by a half a mile long bridge that opened back in 2014. and this year, the island celebrates a very special anniversary. it is the 1000th anniversary of the construction of the church. how on earth did they construct something like this 1000 years ago? yeah. this is the best of medi
employees who work flexibly but don t receive any benefits should qualify for sick and holiday pay according to a government commissioned report. british tennis mystery is made. it s been 39 years. history is made. and johanna konta becomes the first british woman to reach the wimbledon semifinals since virginia wade in 1978. a moment of history that she celebrated on centre court. coming up on sportsday on bbc news: standing in betweenjohanna konta and the wimbledon final, venus williams a five time champion, who becomes the oldest semifinalist at the tournament in 23 years. good evening. an appalling tragedy that should never have happened. that s what the prime minister called the contaminated blood scandal of the 1970s and ‘80s, as the government announced an inquiry into the nhs scandal. it s been called one of the biggest disasters in the history of the nhs. at least 2,400 people died and 7,500 patients were infected with viruses, such as hepatitis c and hiv, a