the health secretary steve barclay is here too. and we ll hear from the first female astronaut heading to the moon. morning. with you and me for the next 60 minutes science presenter michael mosley, who trained as a doctor. former health minister james bethell. and campaigner for kids safety, beeban kidron. both of you members of the house of lords. if we look at the front pages, they are all over the place. the sunday telegraph has a story about electiry pylons. but that picture of the prime minister, the future king, and the other future king stuffing his face with pizza at the cricket is in the papers. the mirror leads on the sixth supect in the stephen lawrence murder case, a story that the bbc broke last week. stephen s friend duwayne brooks says the suspect was there. the sun newspaper talks about zac goldsmith and his friendship with p0p goldsmith and his friendship with pop star ellie goulding. he made the news quitting the government with a blast at rishi sunak on
police in india have arrested two people after a fire destroyed an office building in delhi and killed at least 27 people. #upin # up in space, man. # bookmakers are predicting a rare good result for the uk at tonight s eurovision. but will it be enough to hold back the favourites, ukraine? hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the mayor of kharkiv has told the bbc that the russians have withdrawn from the kharkiv city area in the direction of the russian border. he said said his city was no longer being shelled by the russians and people were gradually returning. the us think tank the insitute of the study of war earlier said russia had failed in its efforts to encircle the city, and now appears to be concentrating on getting its troops safely back across the russian border. russian troops are instead focusing their attacks in the donbas region, which is now seeing some of the heaviest fighting. our correspondent in lviv, joe inwood, told us mor
Small boats crisis. And that story about the surgeons is so shocking. These surgeons is so shocking. These women surgeons are being sexually assaulted in the operating theatre. Sometimes dunng operating theatre. Sometimes during surgery. How appalling is that . That . Its quite mind blowing. You its quite mind blowing. You have to stay tuned really to hear the details of all of that. And Everything Else were talking about this morning. Vaiews gbnews. Com is the email address. Touch address. Please get in touch with us. First, here is the with us. But first, here is the news with ray addison. News with ray addison. Thanks. Both good morning. 931 our top stories. The 931 our top stories. The chancellor is defending the british job market despite rising unemployment figures released today across the uk. Unemployment rose by 0. 1, reaching 4. 3 in july, while Job Vacancies fell to below a million. Jeremy hunt says that remains below many of our international peers. Meanwhile average growth
good evening. in a video call with g7 leaders last night, president volodymyr zelensky warned that moscow was counting on a collapse of western support for ukraine. russia believes america and europe will show weakness , he said, and will not maintain their support at the proper level. he has legitimate cause for concern. last night, the us senate blocked a bill that included financial aid for ukraine, increasing the likelihood that congress will fail to approve more funding before the year end. the bill would provide about $50 billion in new security assistance, but it will not pass, say republicans, unless it comes with substantial immigration reform. here s our analysis editor ros atkins. commitments of aid to ukraine are at their lowest since the war began. ukraine has been relying on western support since russia invaded in february 2022, and new data shows an 87% fall in new commitments this graph shows us the total aid that s been promised each month. it peaked last de