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hello and welcome to bbc news. ukraine says it s enduring heavy russian shelling in the city of lysychansk as the battle for the east of the country intensifies. lysychansk is the last ukrainian held city in luhansk, part of the industrial donbas region that russia is focussing its military power on. these pictures from russia s state owned domestic news agency, ria, show drone images of battles near the city. but kyiv denies russian claims that the city has been encircled. meanwhile, two more britons captured by russian forces in ukraine have been charged with being mercenaries, according to russian state media. it comes after two other british men were sentenced to death last month. joe inwood reports. andrew hill travelled to ukraine to help fight the russian invasion. dylan healy went there to help evacuate civilians. both men now face being tried as mercenaries in an unrecognised separatist court. they would not be the first to appear there. last month, aiden aslin ....
tampering. cnn s ryan nobles starts off our coverage this morning. reporter: new information about the january 6 committee s star witness cassidy hutchinson. sources tell cnn that hutchinson was one of the two examples that liz cheney used to show trump s allies were putting pressure on former staffers to stay loyal to the former president . our committee commonly asks witnesses whether they have been contacted by any of their former colleagues or anyone else who attempted to influence or impact their testimony. reporter: witness intimidation among the growing list of potential crimes the committee believes trump and his top advisers could be at the center of. it is a very serious issue and i would imagine the department of justice would be very interested in and would take that very seriously as well. reporter: but trump and his allies are pushing back, attacking hutchinson and questioning clerd redibility. meanwhile the committee issuing a subpoena to pat ci ....
but experts who advised downing street say ministers were responsible for decisions made. his comments come ahead of tonight s penultimate conservative hustings with rishi sunak and liz truss facing tory votes in norwich. gcse results are out today for pupils in england, wales and northern ireland the pass rate is down on last year but higher than it was before the pandemic. good afternoon. pressure is growing on the government to help households and businesses cope with soaring energy costs. a think tank has called for a universal 30% cut in bills and businesses want covid style emergency grants to help companies that are struggling. the upper limit of what suppliers can charge per unit of energy in england, scotland and wales the energy price cap is set to be announced tomorrow. less than a year ago, a typical annual home energy bill was about £1,200. it s now about £2,000 and it s forecast tomorrow to reach £3,500 per year, payable from this october. there a ....
today and the concert series brought to us by our friends. welcome to the center square today. good morning to both of you. i m pumped up and ready to go! and you are heading to west point after this. i am headed to west point. you haven t had any free food on friday, have you? there s never food on your set! this the first time. on a our summer concert series,we ves boisterous son, out on the veranda. what are you making for the crowd today? we are making you guys some skirt steak street corn tacos, and john has salsa going on there. if you re from the south, we call it chimchurra, but it s really chimichurri. this is mixed in with corn bread and eggs, we will dial it up from barbecue sauce with our buddies at leas. a bacon wrap because we no you live everything bacon wrapped. and that s what you call a fatty, it s a big burrito where the tortilla is baked. you can roll it out and stuff it, roll it up, bacon-weave it, cut it up and eat it. and w ....
that threat and want to talk about it and mass shootings, an act on, rowan action on climate change, young people are not getting what they want from their older leaders. and they are looking to do something about it. this is american voices. what could the man hired to protect the president know about trump sprawling plot to overturn the will of the american people? that is the question the come january six committee wants answered. as the into trump and his allies. overnight, the committee subpoenaed the secret service over deleted text messages on and before january 6th. so how did those text messages just disappear? this, week the homeland security general alerted congress the ig says it happened after the messages were requested for an investigation into the attack. the secret service is telling a different story though. it says there were no malicious intense, the messages were deleted after the request because of a, quote, preplanned system migration. what abou ....