Ukrainian troops are fighting in the Kursk Region, seen here in yellow. They claim to control over 1,000 square kilometres of russian territory. Moscow has evacuated 120,000 russians from the area. Troops are crossing over the border from the Sumy Region of Ukraine Close to kursk. 0ur Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse is there. The Central Square of sudzha. A ukrainian armoured vehicle drives through a russian town. Its a Military Inversion which has restored Momentum And Morale to kyiv s War Effort. And instead of Directing Events in ukraine, moscows reacting to surprises at home. More of its Kursk Region is falling in the most dramatic of battlefield changes. Weve just been to this russian supermarket, and the Selection Isnt very good, remarks this soldier. Slava Ukraini Russia is struggling to contain this weighty offensive, but it is trying. Across the border in ukraines Sumy Region, Evidence Ukraine is deploying some of its best troops for a goal that is still unclear. Milita
he says none of this happened. he says he didn t do anything wrong here. today we are expecting for the former publisher of the national enquirer to be back on the stand, because he is someone who was integrally a part of all of these transactions that are said to have been made in order to sort of catch and kill stories that looked unfavourable to the former president or to the then candidate trump at the time. so he is going to be back on the stand. the defence, the former president s legal team is going to be questioning him as they continue to try and poke holes in some of these arguments that the former president, again, orchestrated this scheme illegally to disclose some of those payments. a primary school teacher who stabbed her boyfriend and buried his body in the garden of their terraced house in northampton has pleaded guilty to murder, during her second trial at the old bailey. fiona beal, who s 50, was arrested last year after police found a notebook containing he
after ending his coalition with the greens. the bbc understands he will not be announcing his resignation despite a conservative confidence vote in his leadership of the scottish government, likely to be scheduled for holyrood next week. our scotland local correspondent david henderson has the story. the bute house agreement lasted less than 1,000 days, but it brought green ministers into government for the first time anywhere in the uk and with them came a raft of green policies. so what do voters think now they re gone? i think it s sad because i think the greens are a good influence on the snp, but i guess we ve had a minority government before, so i guess it s going to happen again. yeah, like, ivote green most of the time. but, yeah, it hasn t been brilliant. for months, this power sharing deal was under pressure, with key plans like the deposit return scheme stalled, then ditched. chanting: trans rights! the final straw, a row over the pause on the prescription of pub
like sars which looked unlikely at this stage, but if it was, for the sake of argument, the point is to make sure that any spill over cases can be rapidly contained so it never establishes itself in the uk. you are not saying this will turn into a pandemic, but what we don t want to say is have any backwash from this. we had importation from sars and ebola, we picked them up and treated them, and that is the first thing to say, and if it is going to be a pandemic, you can never stop it, and there is an illusion you can stop it, but you can t. you can delay it and that is where a lot of the debate around border and other measures then took us but what we wanted people to realise, when you are in pandemic territory, the idea of stopping it is an illusion. you can delay it, potentially, maybe. when you referred to the minority being when you referred to the minority being prevent, you mean that the virus being prevent, you mean that the virus could being prevent, you mean
hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. i m kasia madera. we begin in the us, where the house of representatives, the lower house of congress, has passed a major covid i9 stimulus package worth $1.9 trillion. the plan was approved in the senate on saturday, despite every republican voting against. and the same thing has happened in the house every republican voted against, along with one democrat. the measure will be signed into law by president biden on friday. here s house speaker nancy pelosi announcing the result. on this vote, the yeas are 220. the nays are 211. the motion is adopted. applause the bill s aim is primarily to address the impact of covid on the us economy. but there are broader ambitions to tackle longer term causes of poverty. here are some of the details. the so called american rescue package gives one off payments worth $1,a00 to most americans. it allocates $350 billion to state and local governments, and $130 billion to s