this is bbc world news, the headlines. union leaders say that talks to try to prevent rail strikes next week have failed and the walk outs will go ahead. the government is to trial a scheme allowing asylum seekers who cross the channel in small boats to be electronically tagged. thousands of people march in central london calling on the government to do more to help tackle the cost of living crisis. police in brazil confirm a body found in the remote amazon rainforest is the missing british journalist dom phillips. now, ina now, in a new series of take me to the opera, zeinab badawi travelled to la scala in milan italy to follow four young singers being put through their paces. i have been an opera fan for decades and i want to share my passion with you. so i am on a mission to find out how opera is making itself fit for the future. i have come to italy, the home of opera, and to its leading opera house, la scala in milan. every aspiring opera singer dreams of performing he
government s asylum policy. and pop starjustin bieber cancels a number of shows after being diagnosed with an illness that s partially paralysed his face. as you can see, this eye is not blinking. i can t smile on this side of my face. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. we begin in ukraine, where officials say their forces urgently need more supplies of ammunition. according to one regional governor, the fighting has become a war of artillery and the russian army is much more powerful. the us and nato are in the process of sending heavy armaments, but say they need to be supplied at a pace that ukraine s forces can absorb safely. the battle for control of the key town of severodonetsk is shaping the war with reports of street to street fighting. neither side has scored a knock out blow and much of the city has been reduced to rubble. nick beake reports from kyiv. the russian onslaught in the donbas region is relentless, bombarding ukrainian
And the hamas men beat me on the way. They didnt break my ribs, but hurt me very much. Like so many israelis, shes astounded by the failure of her countrys army and intelligence to protect them. Translation the army wasnt prepared. We were the government scapegoats. Hamas warned us three weeks ahead. They burned our fields, and the army somehow didnt take it seriously. And hamas s Detailed Planning extended to Hostage Taking too. Translation they seemed ready for this. They had prepared for a long time and had everything the hostages needed, even shampoo and conditioner. Running this war is getting complicated for the Israeli Government. The northern border with lebanon is heating up. Thousands of troops have been sent there and border towns evacuated, in case of war with irans lebanese ally, hezbollah. Prime minister netanyahu has visited the troops near gaza, but he hasnt ordered them to invade yet. So without a ground war in gaza to define the state of this crisis, other things are
this evening, there is a chance we could see some local showers breaking out even before the front moves through. through the evening, wetter weather in the midlands, east anglia. thunderstorms in the south east. the small hours of sunday will see more lively whether perhaps shifting down towards the channel islands. but the cooler air should get into the majority of the uk by the end of the night. quite warm and muggy across the channel islands and the far south east of england, but much fresher in london, with lows in the low 20s in the small hours of saturday. sunday, a lot of fine weather in the uk, a low swelling in the north sea will pick up swelling in the north sea will pick up the breeze for scotland and northern ireland, a queue showers but also some sunshine here. a question as to how the showers will clear the south coast of the uk on sunday. southernmost counties could see some heavy and persistent showers through the day. if anything, we could see them making a bit of a r