But russia has denied targeting Civilian Infrastructure insisting the strikes had been aimed at military facilities. Our ukraine Correspondentjames Waterhouse sent us this report. Frantic desperation on a kyiv summer morning. People helping with bare hands at ukraines largest Childrens Hospital. Even for a war hardened city, this was a Missile Strike which broke the gruelling rhythm of russias invasion. Some of the young patients were being treated for cancer, already fighting for their lives. They illustrate how these attacks do not discriminate. Translation we were in the middle of surgery when the windows got shattered, the surgeon quickly covered the baby to save him. I want the world to stop this, these children are innocent. Tatiana had a near miss. Translation we got here five minutes before it all started. Then the search for survivors stops for another missile alert. An underpass acts as a shelter this time. Residential buildings were also hit in kyiv, here bodies were recover
Polls are open in france as people across the country cast their ballots in the second round of parliamentary elections. These are live pictures of a Polling Station in paris. Final Opinion Polls suggest Marine Le Pen s far right National Rally will secure the most votes, but its thought its unlikely to win an outright majority in the national assembly. Such an outcome could plunge the country into a chaotic Hung Parliament, severely denting the authority of president Emmanuel Macron. The anti immigration National Rally scored historic gains in last sundays first round vote, giving Le Pen and The Partys 28 year old Leaderjordan Bardella their first realistic chance of running the government and taking control of the national assembly. However, after hundreds of rival candidates from centrist and leftist parties dropped out to give their allies a better chance of defeating the far right, Le Pen s hopes of winning an absolute majority seem less certain. Joining me now our Correspondent M
Best known celebrities. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or Around The World. In england today, well all get more details later from the government on its plans to deal with the pandemic over the coming months. We expect that all Over 50s will be offered a covid boosterjab. In it was confirmed last night that children aged 12 to 15 will be offered a single Vaccine Dose from next week in england. Lets Take A Look at what other countries are doing. Germany, like the uk, has only been vaccinating children over 16, and some younger children who are clinically vulnerable. But spain, france and italy have been vaccinating children above 12 for the past few months. Across the atlantic, canada and the us have been vaccinating children above 12 since may heres what some teenagers think of the decision in england. I dont want to make a decision where maybe i might regret later in life or. I just want to take things at a pace where i know i Understand. Its very cloudy recently. A lot
The Anti Immigration Hungarian prime Minister Victor Orban meets Pope Francis in budapest. Britains18 year old Emma Raducanu has won the Us Open, in one of the most dramatic victories in modern tennis. She beat19 year old Leylah Fernandez of canada in two sets, 6 4 6 3. Raducanu only made it into the tournament as a qualifier, but she won the title Without dropping a single set. Shes the first british woman to win a grand Slam Singles Title in 44 years. Heres the bbc s sports correspondentjoe wilson. The borough of queens on a sunny day, and the extraordinary progress of one young woman. Shes been absolutely amazing this whole tournament. She has a lot of energy. Shes so composed and ruthless. Shes going to smash it. You know who theyre talking about. Well, there were two teenagers in the Us Open final, canadian Leylah Fernandez at the top of the screen. As early as the second game, we saw intense rallies and we saw Emma Raducanu prevailing here. Both players settled immediately to dis
10pm that will be a full round up of all the news, first he was newscaster. Parliament is back, which means a politics themed Thursday Night episode of newscast is back. Lovely to be together. Chris, have you had any interesting encounters now you have seen people in the real world . Yeah, i went to the lobby briefing, which is where reporters are briefed by Downing Street official spokesmen, in Downing Street for the first time in yonks. And real Life Press conferences. Which means you can kind of heckle of the Prime Minister . No, asking a supplementary and they cant mute you. More muting. If you ask a question and the politician ignores it, you obviously want to ask the question again or may be respond to it, and you almost play the game. We have said before that Downing Street would mute you on zoom, and you would unmute yourself and keep going and see how many questions you could ask. To lower the tone, my experience of seeing people in real life, many of whom i have never met in