First line of russian defences and part of the south. Now mine fields have been blocking the troops for weeks. That means when they are blocked, of course they are vulnerable to russian shelly. Its been dangerous, but careful my Clearing Operation has been making it where they can advance. Ukraine says gains have been made in the south and have expanded their units towards the town of tokmak, Logistics Centre for russian forces. In the last hour or two we have these pictures into the newsroom of zelensky there visiting with troops on the front line. This is it donetsk. I spoke to drjenny mathers. She is a Senior Lecturer at the department of International Politics of the Aberystwyth University in wales. I asked just how significant this is. I think its potentially very significant both symbolically and in material terms because i think weve known for the last several months that the russian defences were very formidable. They would be difficult for the ukrainians to get through, and th
As 21 year old Peyton Stearns took wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova all the way as the czech player won in three sets in a match lasting over two hours. Another american is also out, Asjessica Pegula was beaten in straight sets by madison keys. Pegula left the court in tears, but she does still have a part to play later on in the womens doubles, while shes also a part of the mixed doubles, too. With less than four weeks to go until the ryder cup begins, we now know who will line up for team europe as they aim to win back the trophy from the usa. Captain luke donald has named his six wild card picks, and interestingly, he included swedens ludvig aberg. The 23 year old only turned professional injune, but did win the European Masters On Sunday and will now make his ryder cup debut alongside fellow wild card pickjustin rose, whos been impressed by abergs rise. He tends to have a couple of weapons that everybody does not have at their disposal so he has been fun to follow. Obviously
Pretty quickly afterwards. Well come to that in a moment. First to the actual problem. A type of concrete in schools that can crumble. It means some parts of School Buildings can be unsafe. The Prime Minister had to defend his decisions, as he was accused of not investing enough in school repairs. Heres our Political Editor chris mason. You probably hadnt heard of it until the other day, but this stuff concrete that can get crumbly is building into a political mess. Did rishi sunak, when he was chancellor, walk away from repairs happening sooner . The man who used to be the Department For Educations most senior Civil Servant reckons he did. I was absolutely amazed to see that the decision made by the government was to halve the School Rebuilding programme down from 100 a year to 50 a year. The chancellor, of course, was at the time . Rishi sunak. So, what does the Prime Minister make of that . I think that is completely and utterly wrong. Actually, one of the first things i did as chan