singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start with a notable increase in military activity increase in military activity in the southern and eastern ukraine. the ukrainian armed forces say they ve launched several attacks, forces say they ve launched severalattacks, but forces say they ve launched several attacks, but the russians insist there attacks have been repelled. russian officials are claiming that their troops have succeeded in blocking attacks around donetsk, luhansk and zaporizhzhia. the ukrainian attack on donetsk was set to be on a significant scale, but the eastern city of bakhmut is described as the epicentre of hostilities, where ukraine s ground forces are set to be moving forward strongly against russian positions. in the moment, we will have the latest from moscow, but there is to keep, and our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse. shhh. in a war of words, a call for quiet from kyiv. shhh. when it comes to its an
reporter: yeah good morning, from rolling fork, mississippi here in the mississippi delta not too far from the mississippi river, and guys, i just, you know, a picture sometimes speaks thousand words. and this is, this is about as bad as it gets in aftermath of a tornado preliminary ef4 rating look at this what i m stangtding on this debris and this is an oil cabin essentially and you hear it and can you imagine something this heavy being tossed around. and the projectiles like this here, this board with the nails, 166 miles per hour winds this tornado created. and you imagine items like flying through the air all over and this is what we re seeing on street after street here in this neighborhood in rolling fork. aluminum twisted look at this vehicle behind me on top of this pile. and then underneath all of these cinder blocks there are other vehicles that have been crushed and ripped apart and pounded down by the furry and energy of this incredible tornado this ef4 accordi
rich individuals travel to switzerland. in fact over a thousand private aircraft. according to yahoo news, quote, the carbon dioxide emissions, 350,000 gasoline-powered cars on the road. nearly 40% of jets less than 310 miles away. only a couple of hours, car, bus or train. because there is no airport, private jets forced to land two hours away. passengers board helicopters or a fleet of luxury suv gas guzzling vehicles. climate change and how the little people, rest of us specifically middle class americans how we must make greater sacrifices to save our planet from certain annihilation. al gore is certainly close to certifyfully insane. he has become more unhinged since we saw him. take a look. we are putting 162 tons and accumulated amount is trapping heat, 600,000 hiroshima bombs exploding. that is what is creating rain bombs and sucking moisture out of the lands and raising sea level and causing waves predicted to reach one billion i don t know. look at the zxenophobia
so let s get down to business and we begin here in the uk where families are brutally exposed to the effects of soaring inflation that s the conclusion of a report out today from the think tank the resolution foundation. it warns the very slow growth in wages since the 2008 financial crash has left families in the uk particularly vulnerable to high energy, food and fuel prices and those most vulnerable are families in rental accomodation, single parents and those with young children. i m joined now anna macdonald, fund manager at amati global investors. what s interesting about this report, we are not surprised to hear families are struggling, especially those in single parent homes, that kind of scenario but what i found interesting was uk households are worse hit than other countries. what does it say? it s an interesting report going back over time, working out that wages have been rising at a slower pace than several other developed economies. and that really goes dow
Conspiracy and they cover up the people of the state of new york versus donald j. Trump now underway as trumps attorney or zaid, you and im quoting him here. There is nothing wrong with trying to influence an election it was a hush of the courtroom today is the first witness took the stand in long time. Confidante who helped trump catch and kill negative stories. And good now help make the former president , it convicted felon, and trump. Meanwhile, relatively the quiet incorporate ranting outside court, attacking Michael Cohen, the widely expected Star Witness For The Prosecution my source tonight is Michael Cohens legal adviser, lael any davis, also just in trump, but a new interview talking about the jury, did he just violate a gag order . Maybe again, im Kaitlan Collins. And this is the source course for the next six weeks or so prepared to expect the unexpected, speaking of which one very well trump saying that the first true de of his criminal trial well, in his view, weve been a