after a series of post match pitch invasions the crystal palace manager patrick viera is involved in an altercation with a fan. bbc news understands that the senior civil servant sue gray intends to complete her report on downing street lockdown parties this weekend. she has already criticised failures of leadership at number ten and the cabinet office. the closure of the police investigation means she s now free to publish the full details of her inquiry. our political correspondent david wallace lockhart reports. 126 fines were issued by the metropolitan police for events in downing street and other government buildings. only one of those went to the prime minister. some say that s one too many, others say apologies have been made and now it s time to move on. he didn t feel he was breaking any rules and certainly when i have been on the doorstep, some people do feel what he was fined for, perhaps the prime minister and the chancellor may have been a little hard done by. bu
After failing to achieve much military success elsewhere, russia has in recent weeks been focussing on donbas where moscow backed separatists have already been fighting ukrainian forces for years. we can speak now to our kyiv correspondent, james waterhouse. james, this focus on donbas, does it suggest that this is sort of a downwards trajectory for russian forces there? t downwards tra ectory for russian forces there? forces there? i think it is a guarantee forces there? i think it is a guarantee that forces there? i think it is a guarantee that can t - forces there? i think it is a guarantee that can t be . forces there? i think it is a - guarantee that can t be given, to be honest with you, the reason being that, yes, because of ukraine s deep resolve, level of resistance and support from the west, russia has failed thus far to complete its original aim failed thus far to complete its originalaim of failed thus far to complete its original aim of toppling residents a lesson gay
Rainy day, but we have been hearing from dmitry peskov saying that the air portion of the victory parade in moscow has been canceled. but really, i want to pick up with what we were hearing from nic there, putting into context what we re hearing from the west and g7, the question now becomes what happens in on the front lines? he was focusing very much didn t mention kyiv, didn t mention ukraine as a whole. he focused on donbas. if i was a western military planner, i d be pretty dizzy now because there are lack of crucial ques to what happens next. the focus on donbas when they started, they only had 30% of that whole region. they re having real problems getting hold of key cities. they had a while in 2014 and