hello, this is bbc news with lukwesa burak. the headlines. president zelensky has visited his troops on the front line in eastern ukraine for the first time since the war started. culture secretary nadine dorries has urged uefa to launch a formal investigation, after liverpool fans were tear gassed at the champions league final. liverpool lost to real madrid, but did win two other cup finals. and tonight, liverpool players have taken part in a parade through the city. president biden is meeting the families of some of the 19 children and two teachers shot dead by a teenage gunman in texas. and one of the greatest jockeys of all time, lester piggott, has died aged 86. now on bbc news it s the travel show. this week on the travel show, a resurrection in bavaria. i found the role of playing jesus to be very exhausting. every day after the play, you are really exhausted because it is a very demanding day. 50 years of interrail. very relevant today in terms of the greenness and
invaded, and witnessed the devastation in the city of kharkiv, as intense fighting continues in the region. now on bbc news our world. six million people have fled ukraine, half of whom have gone to next door poland. during a week in april, our world follows warsaw s mayor rafal traskowski. on the 24th of february, russian president vladimir putin ordered a military invasion of neighbouring ukraine. reporter: russian troops i are closing in on the capital, and in the last few hours multiple exposures have been reported. multiple explosions. the invasion trigger the largest refugee crisis in europe since the second world war. almost six million ukrainians have fled the country. reporter: more than half of those who have left are now in poland - where local people are providing accommodation, food and other support. reporter: the population | of warsaw is nearly at nearly 20% in just two weeks. the mayor saying they can t handle the millions more that are expected to come
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time for a look at the weather. here s susan powell. loveit love it or hate it we finally seeing some proper rain across england and wales this morning and further showers pushing across the uk. here is the satellite picture with this area of cloud bringing the more persistent rain and showers dotted about across scotland, northern ireland and the north of england. a wet afternoon to come but getting brighter behind that system. fresher than yesterday thanks to the presence of the rain. in the sunshine it should still be quite a pleasant afternoon and into the evening eastern areas join pleasant afternoon and into the evening eastern areasjoin in pleasant afternoon and into the evening eastern areas join in with that brighter weather. overnight the wind is quite light with plenty of fine weather. rural areas may be sliding down into single figures. we start thursday with high pressure to the south of the uk. quite a westerly breeze established between these weather systems in
our army and passers by that we were tv. there was the first shot. returned and found her on the ground. borisjohnson signed a new host security deal with amanda swindon. both countries are considering joining the nato military alliance. ukrainian forces are advancing against russian troops just north of the country s second largest city, kharkiv. kharkiv is just 30 miles from the border and the operation may pose a wider threat to russia s war in the east. you can see in purple in this map the ukrainian counter attacks, which have taken a number of towns and pushed russian artillery back towards the border. the ukrainian military says it has recaptured four villages near kharkiv in recent days. he air raid sirens. the spectre of russian victory once haunted this city. but no more. for months, the invaders were at the city gates, but kharkiv has cast doubt vladimir putin s foot but kharkiv has cast out vladimir putin s foot soldiers, forcing them back towards the border. this