natalie pirks, thank you for that. that s it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. hello there. after generally cloudy skies of the past few days, wednesday brings the promise of something brighter. more sunshine on the cards with that will trigger some heavy thundering downpours. generally a cloudy start to the day on wednesday. we ll see patchy outbreaks of rain shifting eastwards brighter skies will so, a generally cloudy start to the day on wednesday. we ll see patchy outbreaks of rain shifting eastwards. brighter skies will feed in as we move through the day from the west, and with that sunshine, we could see those heavy, thundery downpours, particularly for eastern parts of scotland, northe east england, the midlands, down central and southern england. and with more in the way of sunshine, it will be warmer, highs around 12 17 degrees celsius. overnight, we ll see those showers fading away across england and wales, patchy cloud and cl
police in new york arrest the suspected gunman behind tuesday s subway shooting, bringing to an end a 24 hour manhunt. in the uk, a government minister quits, after borisjohnson becomes the first sitting prime minister found to have broken the law. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. it s 8:00 in the morning in singapore, and 3am in mariupol where russia is claiming more than 1,000 ukrainian troops have surrendered. but kyiv says the beseiged southern port city is still in its control. gaining full control of mariupol would be a major win for moscow, creating a land bridge between crimea which russia illegally annexed in 2014 and areas held by russian led separatists in the donbas region. it would enable thousands of troops to be deployed to the east, for a new offensive planned there. but caught in the middle is mariupol, its mayor says around 21,000 civilians have been killed, and a 120,000 remain trapped. 0ur correspondent tom bateman re
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it s newsday. it s newsday. thank you for bein: it s newsday. thank you for being with it s newsday. thank you for being with us. we begin in moscow where russian officials have confirmed that the mercenary leader yevgeny prigozhin was one of the people who died on a plane which crashed last week. they say dna evidence from the wreckage matches that of mr prigozhin who led a short lived mutiny against president putin. meanwhile, ukraine has warned that russia is intensifying its attacks along the front line. we ll assess the state of conflict with our correspondent in kyiv in a moment, but first let s get the latest from our russia editor steve rosenberg. many people are asking is if the story of wagner, the story of prigozhin finally over? one of prigozhin finally over? one of the things i have learned in russia is that stories here really end. there are so many twists and turns here and new chapters. it is quite possible that even in that death yevgeny prigozhin could
hello, wlecome to the programne, i m frankie mccamley. let s start with the fast moving developments in thailand. the parliament in bangkok has voted for the candidate of the pheu thai party, srettha thavisin, to be the next prime minister. mr srettha won a majority of votes in a joint session of the elected lower house and unelected senate. he heads a coalition which includes conservative, military aligned parties which have previously opposed pheu thai. the vote coincided with the return from 15 year exile of former prime minister thaksin shinawatra. he s the founder and main funder of pheu thai. hours after his return he was taken to prison for corruption. mr thaksin has long argued that the charges levelled against him were politically motivated. it s widely believed that a deal has been agreed that will allow mr thaksin to serve only a short portion of his eight year sentence. straight to bangkok. our south east asia correspondent jonathan head is there. jonathan, first