thank you so much for spending a part of your sunday with us. here s what we are watching for you this morning. russia launched a now round of riffle attacks on ukraine damaging several residential buildings and injuring dozens of people. what we know about the attacks and why ukraine says it s almost impossible to defend. special counsel jack smith has contacted georgia governor brian kemp as part of its investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and as temperatures across the country continue to soar into the triple digits, agriculture workers say just being outside is suffocating. the efforts to keep them safe as this brutal heat drags on. a.i. s role in hollywood is a major sticking point for actors and rate writhers on strike. a look at the technology that has hollywood on edge and why its creators say it is not going to replace your favorite actors. we begin this morning with the war in ukraine. russia unleashed another round of attacks on the sou
with the level the top of the leaderboard after three level on eight under. recording the lowest first rounds at the us open with eight under scores of 62 on the first day. they are back out a little bit later on. dustinjohnson. quadruple bogey on par four second hole. defending champions matt fitzpatrick xxx hole in one on murray mcelroy just dropped murray mcelroyjust dropped a shot at the 13th and dropped to seven. a hole from defending champion mats for accurate but is struggling to gain ground. england declared on 193 for eight on the first day of the ashes series for more than lived up to the hype. joe root unbeaten 118 holding them back for a position on the hundred and 76 5. captain ben stokes made the surprise decision with the close approaching the earliest christenings declaration in ashes history for the up there a half centuries from jonny bairstow and opener zak crawley for them in reply to her border to australia to for the their half centuries from jonny bai
the un launches an emergency appeal. it s chief says the region is a climate crisis hotspot. pakistan is responsible only for a tiny proportion of global emissions, but it tiny proportion of global emissions, but it is tiny proportion of global emissions, but it is people here who are paying the price but it is people here who are paying the price for climate change. meghan tells a us magazine thatjust existing was enough to upset the dynamics of the royal hierarchy. and coming up on the bbc news channel: scott parker is the first managerial casualty of the new premier league season, sacked by bournemouth after their 9 0 thumping at liverpool. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. there s more evidence today of the depth of the energy crisis. the impact on households is already self evident but what about businesses, especially high street stalwarts like pubs? now bosses of some of the uk s biggest pub chains have spoken out. they ve sent an open letter to the
assess his momentous life. also tonight. in pakistan, 33 million people are now said to be affected in some way by the worst flooding in the country s history. floods happen during the monsoon here every year but not like this. britain s pub chains say that without urgent government help the industry will be devastated by rising energy bills. and the british number one emma raducanu says it s all about positive energy as she prepares to defend her us open title. and as well as the latest from the us open. coming up on the bbc news channel, there s a saints stunner at southampton. we ll have all tonight s premier league action. the former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev, one of the most influential statesman of the 20th century has died at the age of 91. the news was announced by russian news agencies within the last hour. mikhail gorbachev came to power in 1985 and ended the so called cold war between east and west, a process which led to the reunification of germany eventual
fbi s search. alexandria hoff kicks things off at the nation s capitol. the justice department mounting concerns over the nature and handling of the documents that were brought to mar-a-lago. it described in january, trump representatives turned over 15 boxes of record. by may the department of justice determined mixed in with personal and unrelated paper work were highly classified documents. 184 which had the classification markings. 25 marked top secret and others indicated they contained information on clan destine human sources or spies as one might call them. the probable cause to justify the raid of mar-a-lago, the belief that additional documents might be found along with evidence of obstruction. we still don t quite know what the specificity of the obstruction allegation was. was it in the handling of these documents and the reporting of their possession or did it go to something broader? and he suggested that answer might be found beneath the redactions, presi