they re trying to hold every inch of territory in that city. how has that changed the way they re fighting this side? reporter: it s made it on the russian side, dirtier. on the ukrainian, more desperate. the last few days as the offensive gains in intensity, as the conditions on the ground worsen, those images geolocated by cnn that showed the conditions around bakhmut pretty grim with mud, making the roads pretty much impassable. what ukrainian authorities and president sens has said tonight is things are getting more and more challengichallenging. what we re seeing are a series of intense attacks, but it is the battle for the town of bakhmut that gets worse and more intense by the day with ukrainian officials describing it as the epicenter. there have been today hundreds of artillery barrages and rocket strikes by the russians as they try and encircle the town, and specifically the areas of settlements to the west of it. desperate pleas on the part of the ukrainians once
ukrainian officials have said a deadly explosion at a cafe in st petersburg shows that domestic terrorism is breaking out in russia. there s no indication of who was behind the blast on sunday that killed vladlen tatarsky, a well known blogger who backed the russian invasion of ukraine. these are pictures before the explosion. tatarsky was a guest speaker at an event hosted by the cafe in st petersburg when the bomb went off. sergei goryashko from bbc russian gave us this update on the story. so, for now we know that the explosion was around 6pm local time in st petersburg at a cafe where dozens of people gathered to meet vladlen tatarsky and to listen to his account on the ongoing russia ukraine war. the blast went offjust after vladlen tatarsky received a gift from one the visitors. he was given a statue, a small statue of himself covered with gold paint. he put it on the table and right after that, minutes after, the blast went off. there are reports that the statue had be
welcome to bbc news. muslims around the world are preparing for eid al fitr, a religious festival which marks the end of the holy month of ramdan. but in some countries, conflict and poverty have made that celebration all but impossible. some of the images we are about to show you are distressing. in yemen, at least 78 people have been killed in a crush at a school in yemen s rebel held capital, sanaa, after hundreds crowded into a narrow street on wednesday night to get hand outs of around $9 from a merchant during a charity event for ramadam. i ll be speaking to a yemeni journalist and our chief international correspondent, lyse doucet. but first, another muslim majority nation, sudan where people have been desperately trying to leave the capital, khartoum, amid another day of fighting, fearful about dwindling food supplies and the collapse of medical services. nearly a week of fighting between rival military factions in sudan is now thought to have killed at least 330 pe
ukrainian officials have said a deadly explosion at a cafe in st petersburg shows that domestic terrorism is breaking out in russia. there s no indication of who was behind the blast on sunday that killed vladlen tatarsky, a well known blogger who backed the russian invasion of ukraine. these are pictures before the explosion. tatarsky was a guest speaker at an event hosted by the cafe in st petersburg when the bomb went off. sergei goryashko from bbc russian gave us this update on the story. so, for now we know that the explosion was around 6pm local time in st petersburg at a cafe where dozens of people gathered to meet vladlen tatarsky and to listen to his account on the ongoing russia ukraine war. the blast went offjust after vladlen tatarsky received a gift from one the visitors. he was given a statue, a small statue of himself covered with gold paint. he put it on the table and right after that, minutes after, the blast went off. there are reports that the statue had be
rentals of e scooters. hello and welcome. ukrainian officials have said a deadly explosion at a cafe in st petersburg shows that domestic terrorism is breaking out in russia. no one has claimed responsibility for the blast on sunday, that killed vladlen tatarsky, a well known blogger who backed the russian invasion of ukraine, but who in recent times had expressed criticism of the military campaign. azadeh moshiri reports. spiders are eating each other, thatis spiders are eating each other, that is how one ukrainian officials described a blast who killed a pro kremlin blogger. suddenly everything exploded and there was smoke, it was like a slow motion movie. we were seated in the back half of the whole, everyone started to run. those who were near had blood on them. there are conflicting reports about what happened. some suggest that vladlen tatarsky, seen in this recording, was handed a statue in a box as a present, but it contained a bomb hidden inside. the bbc has not ver