you could join us. we begin with some news from the war in ukraine. russia says its troops have fully captured the ukrainian city of bakhmut. there has been no immediate reaction from kyiv to those claims, but if true, it could mark an end to the longest and bloodiest battle of the 15 month war. russia has been trying to take bakhmut since last year in a grinding war of attrition. and in the last few minutes, the russian news agency interfax has said president putin congratulated his troops for capturing the city. earlier, ukraine had said its units were still fighting in the city. this comes on the heels of the us agreement to allow ukrainian pilots to train in american made f 16 jets. a move moscow had criticised. meanwhile, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has been on a whirlwind tour in an effort to drum up support and weapons for an expected counter offensive against russia. it s been a busy few hours for zelensky, touching down injapan on saturday for diplomatic t
up up on sports day, the greatest in the history ofjersey red, they ve won the championship but the premiership a dream. won the championship but the premiership remains a dream. evening, we ll start with football on this bank holiday monday, we ll look ahead to the basement battle between leicester and everton, the championship play offs are also becoming clearer but there is a huge match underway at the emirates stadium, it s a sell out, with arsenal women taking on wolfsburg in the second leg of their champions league semifinal. jane dougall has been keeping across the first half, what s been happening? the first 11 minutes where he was just electric. and they went ahead and it was through and she took advantage of some really poor defending by wolfsburg, a bit of a mix up in the slotted home and she has been immense so far and few more chances since then and getting the equalising the first leg as well for the season so far and they went ahead and the 11th minute and it c
radio presenterjenny kleeman, and kate ferguson, who s deputy political editor of the sun. hello to you both. the front pages. the uk s new defence pacts with sweden and finland make the front page of the telegraph, which says britain would help them fight the russians in case of any invasion. alongside is a picture of borisjohnson and his swedish counterpart, taking to the water after signing their pact. a picture of them putting pen to paper is in the financial times, which leads with the eu vowing to retaliate if the uk rips up the post brexit trade deal for northern ireland. the paper sastoe biden is trying to mediate any dispute. a dramatic front page from the guardian the paper claims oil and gas companies are planning scores of new projects that could trigger a climate catastrophe , driving global temperatures past agreed limits. the i claims number ten wants to speed up new measures to tackle the rising cost of living, but the treasury is resisting any further gove
always positive sign somehow but yes, decided last week because it s not the case of the moment and he is here and is training and on the matches in a safe place of the team and everything is ok and he wants to be a us and he travels here. be with us and he travels here. the arsenal women s manager, jonas eidevall, has responded to claims he bullied the fourth official during their win over manchester city on sunday in the wsl. eidevall was adamant he did nothing he would be ashamed of after city boss gareth taylor s allegation. this is what he had to say. i got really disappointed with the comments because i think there s no personal truth in them. the wording that gareth used by third birds is borderline slander and either he is not very good with the truth or good with the language, but either way i don t think is acceptable. ben stokes delivered for england on wednesday, ensuring their disappointing cricket world cup didn t continue to go from bad to worse. looking in tro