that the russians had full control of the city. we ve been hearing these claims, actually, from yesterday, and these claims have not been confirmed yet by the ukraine s general staff, the armed forces of ukraine, neither by the local administration and authorities. what we can say with certainty, of course, is the situation in lysychansk has been very intense for quite a while now. after the battle for severodonetsk, lysychansk was the key focus of the russian offensive, their ground forces have been affecting lysychansk nonstop, the city was under intense artillery fire, missile fire, bombardments, aerial bombardments. and like we ve always been saying, and our minister of defence confirmed it a few days ago, for ukrainians, the value of human life is top priority, so sometimes we may retreat from certain areas, just so that we will retake them in the future. and there are other claims that russia is encircling ukrainian troops, or encircling the town itself. what s your tak
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. lynda: welcome in the united states and all around the world. i am lynda kinkade with breaking news coverage of israel at war. there are growing indications that an israeli military ground operation into gaza could get underway at any moment. the u.s. is now sending a second carrier strike group to the eastern mediterranean as well as additional fighter jets. the move is intended to deter iran, hezbollah, and others from entering the conflict. some 300,000 israeli troops began amassing on the gaza border soon after last week and s terror attacks. israel declared that it is ready to open a new phase in the war with significant ground operations. prime minister benjamin netanyahu met soldiers on the front lines marking those offering words of support and telling them to be prepared. palestinian authority s in gaza city to show from the israeli airstrikes is now more than 2200. including more than 700 children, according to the health mi
the israeli army has said it has operational control of their rafah crossing here, this is a fellow because mortars were fired from this area killing four other soldiers. we have not verified this ourselves but we have verified several videos circulating on social media of israeli armoured vehicles including this one, which appeared online this morning. it shows a tank ramming into two palestinian flags at the crossing on the gaza side. there is a long shadow stretching on the ground from west to east suggesting it was early in the morning. we have located it to hear by looking at pictures of satellite images of the crossing. overnight, there was continuous israeli bombardment on the border city. we verified this video which was sent to the bbc by someone in khan younis looking towards rafah. you can see some of the players in the sky. israel claims 20 hamas fighters have been killed but there are also reports of civilian casualties. israel says it has warned people of it str
comment from the chief constables as to why they are not responding to requests from the media. it is also the comment they have used to ask families why they won t respond. words fail me, really. it is the most awful thing to have to go through and the layers of trauma poor communication have added, i don t know if we will ever get over it but we have to try and find a way. it but we have to try and find a wa . ., ., , ., . , , way. nottinghamshire police is being investi . ated way. nottinghamshire police is being investigated by way. nottinghamshire police is being investigated by the way. nottinghamshire police is being investigated by the iopc, way. nottinghamshire police is being investigated by the iopc, the - investigated by the iopc, the independent office of police conduct, over its handling of the attacks was that there is a review by the college of policing and in a statement the force said in light of those investigations it would be inappropriate to commen
family . he also talked about labour s pledges being fully funded and fully costed, and also talked about the party making hard choices if elected. plenty to unpack from the past a0 or so minutes. let s stay with his pictures of angela rayner and the shadow cabinet shaking hands with various people, including some of those speakers from the very beginning of the event. let s cross live to ione wells, who is at the launch. lots to unpack today. as i said earlier, the themes have already been out in public. we know exactly what he was going to say. but it felt to me, and i don t know if it felt to you, keir starmer is a man who is very assured about what he wants? that is right. as you say, and apologies, it is quite loud music behind me, there wasn t really any big surprises in this manifesto, and i think that was sort of the point that labour were trying to achieve today. keir starmer made trying to achieve today. keir starmer made a trying to achieve today. keir starmer