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hello, i m sally bundock, welcome to the programme. ukraine s president zelensky is returning home from a meeting of g7 leaders injapan. he left the summit having secured further promises of financial and military support, including american made f 16 fighterjets. the commander of ukraine s ground forces says they re close to surrounding the eastern city of bakhmut. ukraine has disputed the russian claims to have taken full control of the city. russia has lost thousands of men in the assault on bakhmut many from the wagner mercenary group. our diplomtaic correspondent james landale reports from kyiv. for more than eight months, in what s now the longest battle of this war, ukrainian forces have defended bakhmut. the eastern city is now largely in ruins and largely in russian hands in particular in the hands of fighters like these from the wagner mercenary group, whose leader yevgeny prigozhin claimed to have full control here. from house to house, he said, we too ....
hello, i m carl nasman, thanks forjoining us. we start injapan, where a weekend of diplomacy and solidarity among some of the world s most powerful political leaders has come to a close. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky departed the g7 summit injapan with a pledge of unwavering support as well as more military equipment from his allies. on sunday, president zelensky and japanese prime minister fumio kishida each laid a wreath at the hiroshima peace memorial park. it was a moment of deep symbolism two leaders of countries that both know the very real and very painful scars of war. russia s invasion of ukraine dominated talks at the g7 summit. us presidentjoe biden confirmed that the us and its allies will help train ukrainian pilots to fly western fighterjets like the f 16, which president zelensky had long called for. biden also promised to support ukraine with more ammunition and armoured vehicles, partly as a demonstration of western resolve. we will not ....
good afternoon, and welcome to bbc news. dj tim westwood is facing allegations from a woman who said they had sex several times, starting when she was iii. she says mr westwood was in his 30s at the time and describes him as a predator . the woman is one of several to come forward after an investigation by bbc news and the guardian, with claims of misconduct and abuse dating from 1990 to 2020. mr westwood did not respond to a request for comment. this report from our correspondent chi chi izundu contains distressing accounts of alleged sexual assault. the archers was a club in vauxhall and tim westwood would be there holding his club night, so it was really popular. it was a big deal. between eight and ten with tim westwood. we re calling this woman esther, she says she was in when she met tim westwood and he was in his early 30s. then he got into ages and he was like, how old are you then? i said, i m iii. and he didn t look shocked oranything, it was, oh, 0k. i said, can i ....
in japanese politics. and our other main story this lunchtime: durham police confirmed they are not fining keir starmer and angela rayner over allegations they broke lockdown rules last year. the race is on to replace borisjohnson as conservative leader and britain s next prime minister the first contenders throw their hats in the ring. another big rise in the number of people with covid in the uk infections are up 18%. and i am at wimbledon where britain s cameron norrie will play the six time champion novak djokovic for a place in the men s final. and coming up on the bbc news channel: former fifa president sepp blatter expresses his relief as he and former uefa boss michel platini are both found not guilty of fraud following a trial in switzerland. good afternoon. world leaders have been expressing their shock and grief after the assassination of japan s former prime minister shinzo abe. he was shot while making a speech in the city of nara, and later died in hos ....
look in on people who might be vulnerable, an elderly neighbour or someone with very young children. this is the heatwave we have had, the second one this summer, if you like. we only had the last 13 weeks ago. climate change experts have been telling us yet again that we should be expecting more of these events as the climate changes, as the planet warms up. certainly, so far, the people we have been speaking to on the beach, as far as they are concerned, they are very much enjoying it. i did ask them how high do you like it, how what do you want it to go and they said maybe 31, 32 is the maximum and certainly thatis 31, 32 is the maximum and certainly that is what the weather forecasts are saying over the next few days, we could get into the low 30s. they say no harder than that because that would make a british summer that little bit too uncomfortable for them. , u, little bit too uncomfortable for them. , ., ~ , time for a look at the weather. here s nick miller. m ....