hello and welcome. ukraine says 174,000 square kilometres that s roughly the same area as syria has been contaminated by landmines since russia s invasion last february. most have been found in the north eastern kharkiv region. 0ur correspondent in ukraine james waterhouse reports. this is what you call a scratching of the surface, a sweep and a gentle prod for hidden killers. a job with very obvious occupational hazards. translation: my family calls me in the morning l and tells me to be careful, to watch where i tread. of course they re worried, very much worried. before, we would work with shells from world war ii, and now they are modern munitions, so we have to learn constantly because we find new kinds that we haven t encountered before. it s hard to describe this as anything other than random. this is a patch of land in the middle of balakliya. it s not a place, unlike other areas, that was once contested, where there was heavy fighting. but what these minesweepers
raising that age from 62 to 64. new opinion polls show the majority of french voters oppose that reform and back of the protests unions. they have planned protest on thursday against those changes. mr macron very keen to move discussion on that, but he s on that state visit to amsterdam, as you can see, addressing the dinner there at the royal palace and the city. nonetheless, many issues for him to tackle. we will stay across that if there are any developments. the business lobby group, the cbi, has sacked its director general, after an investigation into workplace misconduct. the allegations involve a female employee. tony danker described the claims against him as distorted, but says he recognised he unintentionally made a number of colleagues feel uncomfortable. our business editor,
needed to follow suit. president macron caught up in a row at home about raising the state of pension age to 64 from 62. so, we do not have translation of those comments. president macron addressing the royal palace in amsterdam, cracking a joke, addressing the royal palace in amsterdam, cracking ajoke, by addressing the royal palace in amsterdam, cracking a joke, by the looks of him. king alexander very welcoming of that. relating to the growing power protecting its interests. to some degree, protectionism was needed. he said things like strategic assets no longer should be sold off to the highest bidder. as i said, there continued back home for president macron to deal with, not least