great to have you with us. we begin with some news from the war in ukraine. russia says its troops have fully captured the ukrainian city of bakhmut. kyiv has denied those claims, but if true, it could mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15 month war. russia has been trying to take bakhmut since last year in a grinding war of attrition. and in the last hours, the russian news agency interfax has said president putin congratulated his troops and the paramilitary wagner group for capturing the city. earlier, ukraine had said its units were still fighting in the city. meanwhile, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has been on a whirlwind tour in an effort to drum up support and weapons for an expected counteroffensive against russia. it s been a busy few hours for zelensky, touching down injapan on saturday fo diplomatic talks touching down injapan on saturday for diplomatic talks with many of the gathered heads of the g7 nations. that includes prime minist
important issues facing her country. she remains defiant when it comes to the treatment of the minority rohingya refugees and says that she is in no hurry to step down as the leader of the country. you are the world s longest serving female leader. often described as the iron lady of bangladesh, you are the daughter of the founder of the country. i just want to know, how have the last 14 years have been for you personally? the last 14 years have been the best time for bangladesh. in every aspect, we made tremendous development. we couldn t do it in the past because, after independence, our father of the nation got only three years and seven months to build up the strength of his country and develop the country. after the military ruler took over directly or indirectly, then in 2008, when we won the election, it was a continuous democratic process for 14 years. that really helped our country to develop. every sector we made some progress. your country has been described as a f
Debate about scotland still. Time now for the are. Hello, and welcome to sportsday. Im olly foster, these are your headlines this evening. Manchester united, well be at old trafford shortly for their Champions League match against galatasary. Getting back on the horse max whitlock makes his major championship return. Well head to antwerp and the world gymnastics championships. Quarterfinal place is still in the balance. We will check in with ireland and scotland ahead of that crunch final poll match at the rugby world cup. Also coming up on sportsday. Saudi iranian relations are strained once again, as a statue causes an asian Champions League match to be called off. And well hear from the Bbc Green Sport athlete of the year, pat cummins tells us how hes tackling crickets Carbon Footprint. Its one of those things where no one will be perfect, but i think everyone can do a Little Something different in their life that might make a big difference. Good evening to you. In the last couple
possible. great to talk to you and thank you for coming on. stay with us here on bbc news. we have more coming up at the top of the hour. hello there. a lovely start to the weekend, especially across england and wales where we have had lots of sunshine so blue skies over these blue billboards in south wales near pontypridd. a bit more cloud for scotland and northern ireland but still managed some bright spells and, actually, for scotland, northern ireland, england and wales we have temperatures reaching the low 20s in warm spots, 21.5 there making the warm day of the year so far for wales. over the making the warm day of the year so farfor wales. over the next few hours we have another weather front moving in, weatherfront moving in, pipping up bringing a bit of heavy rain for a time to scotland and northern ireland but as we get towards lawn that