a harmful gene. hello and welcome to bbc news. dmytro kuleba, ukraine s foreign minister, has warned that countries which mistreated ukraine during the darkest moment of its history will be held to account after the war ends. in an interview with the bbc, he also warned western allies that delaying the delivery of weapons will cost the lives of ukrainian soldiers. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, has been speaking to him, and began by asking him why the battle for bakhmut in the east of ukraine is so important. the battle for bakhmut is now the longest of the war. more than half a year of bloody fighting for control of what is little more than rubble. but ukraine s foreign minister told me holding the city was vital, and notjust for the damage it s causing to russia s army. defending bakhmut is emotionally very challenging, because people find it hard emotionally to take, carry the burden of this death, loss of human life and destruction. it s a struggle t
the bow room, a room right at the back of buckingham palace whose bow windows open out onto the acres of parkland that lie behind buckingham palace. it willen in be a vigil there with members of the church of england, overseeing it on a constant basis until 2:00 tomorrow on wednesday, 2:22, in fact, when there will be that procession from buckingham palace through the streets, through the mall, towards westminster abbey where the queen will be placed the casket will be placed and she ll lie in state there until the morning of her funeral on monday. so nearly five days. during that five days it is going to be an enormous logistical operation. hundreds of thousands of people are expected to line up, the wait patiently, some of them overnight in order to pay their respects and file past the coffin of queen elizabeth ii. on new england state funeral will be held. world leaders, including president biden and a bunch of other prominent leaders around the world, are going to be co
were wearing poppies. it s an important day to remember those who died, but amongst them were 10,000 palestinians whojoined the british army. the atmosphere as the rally began was relaxed and good natured but from early in the day, police have been concerned about what they categorised as a right wing counter protest. there were scuffles a short distance from the cenotaph. the met commissioner sir mark rowley paid a visit to his command team as riot squads in the field worked to keep the two protest groups apart. here in the met police s operations centre, officers are monitoring every aspect of the protest and they ve got fixed cameras and also they ve got evidence gatherers, officers on the ground, who are taking pictures they can beam back live from the scene so the commanders here can decide where to deploy and when to arrest. we watched as the senior commanders instructed their teams in the field to arrest some of the counter protesters. from what we can see they came in