Betray them on brexit. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Police in new zealand say they dont expect to find any more survivors after a volcano in new zealand erupted without warning. At least five people have died and several more are missing. The volcano on on white island to the north of the country is a popular tourist attraction. The sudden eruption happened just after 2pm local time. Its feared passengers from a cruise ship were looking at the volcanos crater when it started spewing ash thousands of feet into the air. Police say more than 20 people are still unaccounted for and Officials Say it is currently too dangerous for Emergency Services to travel to the island to establish exactly what happened. Our news correspondent Richard Lister has been following developements and has this report. A boiling ash cloud fills the sky. These day trippers had a lucky escape. They had been on that island just minutes before. They left behind a sightseeing helicopter, destroyed by t
Thank you all. We will try to answer as many as we can. Hello, im derek from london in the uk. Is there really a stalemate in ukraine at the moment . This is angela from auckland in new zealand. Could you talk please about the changes, zelenskys strategy with the departure of zaluzhnyi, the general. In charge of the army . Well, lyse, first of all, is there a stalemate on the battlefield or has the tide turned in favour of russia . I will answer the question about the stalemate, and i will partially be answering the second question. It was general zaluzhnyi the last Commander In Chief who used the words stalemate in an interview and it is said to have angered president zelensky. He felt it was too negative a description of the situation along the front line. President zelensky himself recently went to visit his troops in the east. He described the situation as extremely difficult. He is saying the Russian Forces are pressing ahead in at least five directions. And he believes russia is
on the kremlin, which russia has called an attempt to assassinate president putin. this video, which has been circulated on social media, and the bbc has now verified shows the moment the drones hit the building. ukraine claims russia is using this accusation as a cover to launch an attack. president volodymyr zelenskiy has been speaking at a news conference in finland. we don t attack putin or moscow, we fight on our territory, we are defending our villages and cities. we don t have enough weapons for this. . . , ~ ., ., , this. that was ukrainian president volod m r this. that was ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky this. that was ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky responding . this. that was ukrainian president| volodymyr zelensky responding to accusations by moscow that that drone strike was launched by ukraine. our russia editor, steven rosenberg, is in moscow and has sent this report. flying in from the left, what appears to be a drone. then an explosion over
fighting intensifies around the ukrainian city of kherson, as kyiv steps up the counter offensive, trying to recapture the southern city from russian forces. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union, has died at the age of 91. he oversaw economic reforms known as perestroika and political ones known as glasnost or openness which led to the break up of the soviet union in 1991 and the end of the cold war. russian president vladimir putin has expressed deep sympathies . our russia editor steve rosenberg looks back at a historic life. he was the kind of russian leader of the world had never seen. mikhail gorbachev smiled, he was relaxed. in the west, he acquired almost pop star status for helping to end the cold war. but at home, it was a different story. born in the days of dictator josef stalin, mikhail gorbachev bec
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