As the ukrainian Troops Advance. Ukraines Military says it now controls almost 1,000 square km of territory inside russia the biggest Cross Border Incursion by ukraine since the war began. 0ur Security Correspondent Frank Gardner has the latest. One week into Ukraines Incursion into russia, the kremlin s forces are scrambling to push back its advance. Extra units have been sent as ukraine now claims to be holding up to 1,000 square kilometres of russian territory. Russian residents in the Kursk 0blast are being evacuated as the fighting continues. Around 180,000 civilians have so far been moved, many shocked that russia has been invaded for the first time since the second World War. In ukraine, public morale has been boosted by this unexpected turn of events. Russia still occupies nearly a fifth of the country, but President Zelensky is hoping this incursion will strengthen his hand in future peace negotiations. Translation Russia brought war i to others, and now its coming home. We ca
This programme continues on bbc one. Thanks very much. A hot one today across england and wales, increasing humidity. We saw temperatures reach 30 celsius in a number of locations in central huw edwards is convicted of possessing images of the most serious sexual abuse of children. Tonight, newsnight can reveal that the bbc news knew nine months ago the nature of that investigation. And hamass political leader is assassinated in tehran. Benjamin netanyahu says israel has delivered a crushing blow to irans proxies. Could it lead to all out war . Good evening. Welcome to newsnight, the home of insights and interviews. Its hard to comprehend that a former colleague, who for years had been the most prominent figure in bbc news, was today in court admitting three charges of possessing 41 indecent images of children. Seven of them involved the most serious abuse, two of them picturing children as young as seven. Hell be sentenced in september. But tonight it is the bbc in the dock. Newsnight
It was just a few minutes into donald trump s speech when a volley of shots rang out. Gunshots get down, get down, get down! gunshots the former president could be seen clutching at the right side of his head. After that, he hits the ground, as the secret service pile on top of him. Theirjob to put their bodies between him and the shooter. There was panic among the thousands of people inside the rally. Many ran, many threw themselves to the ground. Donald trump was seen getting to his feet and raising a fist to his supporters, signs of blood at his right ear. Cheering he can be heard saying the words fight, fight. Cheering we re just waiting to see if things have cleared, and as you can see, we re on the ground behind our car, which is not ideal, but that s the shelter we have at the moment, and that s what we are trying to ascertain what s happened. As people streamed out of the venue, they told us what they had seen. One man, a local business owner, described how he had noticed a
Summit. Expecting to hearfrom us presidentjoe biden in a few hours from now. A press conference where he will face questions from the us and world press. It is being seen as a test for him and his performance given what happened in that presidential debate of course a couple of weeks ago. A busy day in the summit. Ukraine still very much the focus of discussions. The us president met with ukrainian president volodymr zelensky. Nato leaders also gathered for the nato ukraine council. They reaffirmed their support in its war against russia. We ll have more on the specifics of that in a few minutes, but all eyes really onjoe biden. Growing calls for the us president to step aside from the presidential campaign. Overnight, we saw the first democratic sentor break ranks, peter welch from vermont. He wrote in the wall streetjournal the president should withdraw for the good of the country. And just as we came on air, more bad news for us presidentjoe biden. The us democratic representative b
Into the reports. The european space agency s new ariane 6 rocket has lifted off from french guiana on its maiden flight. It s intended to give european governments and firms independent access to space. And the first semifinal of the euros between spain and france is taking place right now. France took the lead but spain came back. Spain currently 2 1 up. We had to washington in the us. Leaders are arriving for this crucial nato summit. Us presidentjoe biden to speak. A big test for him. The focus on nato. The security organisation is marking 75 years this week, the focus showing they re united still in helping ukraine combat russian aggression. Us secretary of state antony blinken has met with nato secretary general jens stoltenberg at the us state department here s what they had to say. What s to be said in the coming days about the concrete achievements of this summit, i won t get ahead of those, you ll be hearing about those in the next few days. But again, suffice it to say w