[applause] [applause] oh come on. Good morning. Thank you for that warm welcome and thank you for being in person all the people watching on line or listening remotely we say thank you for joining us for the 2024 state of the state. Youve all been thoroughly welcomed this morning but i want to give a special shout out to a few people in the course ive got to start with first Lady Catherine and her family members she spirit their sister julie and her cousin lisa and watching on line to the rest of our rest of our extended families and their sons joe and tom and her daughter jesse and their extended families. When you serve your family serves with you so i want to be sure to at this time thank them for all their support in the seven years in todays a special day because its jesses birthday and so we need on a one, two, three everybody to yell happy birthday jesse. It will be the Largest Group to ever yell her birthday at the same time. One, 23, happy birthday jesse [applause] way to go.
we ll hear from an expert about the remarkable discovery. first, though, a bbc investigation suggests at least 25,000 russian soldiers have been killed in ukraine, four times higher than the figure acknowledged by moscow. the research also suggests many of the casualties are now older fighters, with little or no training. significant numbers have been recruited from prisons. 0ur correspondent 0lga ivshina has this special report. these are the war graves russia doesn t want to talk about. since december, the bbc has located seven new cemeteries dotted across russia and occupied ukraine. they re filled with the graves of poorly trained fighters. many were prisoners recruited by the notorious wagner mercenary group. and the cemeteries are growing rapidly. this one is about 20 times bigger than it was six months ago. since the start of the war, we have been verifying photos of graves and social media posts with the independent russian website mediazona and volunteers inside the
nottinghamshire police have announced 31 year old valdo calocane has been charged with three counts of murder over the deaths of students barnaby webber and grace o malley kumar, both aged 19, and ian coates, 65, who were all fatally stabbed on tuesday. that man has been named as first, 31 years old. he has been charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder. valdo calocane. the first relates to two students who were stabbed as they walked home in the early hours of tuesday morning and the third murder charge relates to ian coates, a school caretaker. it is alleged that the took him out of his vehicle and stabbed him further valdo calocane then use that van to plough into three people and those are the attempted murder charges. in terms of the suspect, we know that he was a student here at the university of nottingham. he graduated last year. he had been studying mechanical engineering. he was a dual national, he had portuguese nationality and als
man fighting with the ukrainian army are sentenced to death by a russian backed court. and tributes are paid to bruce kent, the veteran british peace campaigner, who s died at the age of 92. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the congressional committee investigating the storming of the us capitol last year has held its first public hearing on prime time television. it says it s established that the former president donald trump conspired to overturn the result of the 2020 election. graphic new footage was shown of the riots at the capitol building in washington last january when supporters of mr trump tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to president biden. the committee spent almost a year investigating the attack. some republican leaders called the hearings a democratic smokescreen to promote a radical agenda. but liz cheney, the committee s republican vice chair, said mr trump had summoned the mob, lit the flame of the attack, an
outlining measures to boost homeownership in england. current and former staff at a group of children s homes tell the bbc vulnerable young people have been let down. hello, and welcome to wimbledon. and after 30 years, sue barker announces she is stepping down from presenting wimbledon. on sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel. half an hour after teeing off in the breakaway liv invitational event, over a dozen golfers are suspended by the us pga tour. good evening. two british men who were fighting alongside ukrainian troops have been sentenced to death in eastern ukraine by a russian court. 28 year old aiden aslin and 48 year old shaun pinner were found guilty alongside a third man from morocco, after being captured during fighting in mariupol in april. the foreign secretary liz truss has condemned their sentence, calling it a sham judgment with absolutely no legitimacy. emma vardy reports. forfighting as soldiers in ukraine s military, after a short trial