forces. more details on how many men putin has sent to the front lines. plus, the investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election heating up as the special counsel focuses in on trump s legal team. and a terrifying video of a visible crack in the support beam of a popular roller coaster. the man who shot this video, the video that eventually forced the park to shut the ride down is my guess. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erica hill in for erin burnett. putin is now said to have moved more than 180,000 men to the front line, including 50,000 near bakhmut and the buildup comes as ukraine claims it is slowly making progress in the east, taking back more than 14,000 miles in the past week. we re getting video of a massive fire ball seen rising over the city of sumi. russia hit a number of residential buildings and a security service building. these attacks underscore why zelenskyy is pressing for ukraine to be able to join nato. erin asked zelenskyy
queen elizabeth i! faced an assassination threat during a 1983 visit to america. hello, i m gareth barlow. we start in sudan where the family of an 85 year old uk national has told a bbc news arabic investigation that his disabled wife died of starvation after the british embassy there left the couple to fend for themselves during the recent fighting. despite repeated calls for assistance, abdalla sholgami and alaweya rishwan were offered no help in leaving their home which is just yards from the embassy in the capital, khartoum. the foreign office said the situation had been too dangerous. nawal al maghafi reports. a race against time. as fighting in sudan intensified, thousands of dual nationals were desperate to escape. amongst them abdalla sholgami, a british citizen and a london hotel owner, and his wife alaweya rishwan. they were next to the military hq. they were in the centre of khartoum. that area, you can t leave, you can t enter. there are snipers everywhere in hat
to 29 and 27 years. you continued to abuse him, and you lied that he had covid, so that no one would see him and remove him from your care. and in doing so, you subjected your own baby son to unimaginable cruelty. as a vigil takes place in cardiff for the two teenagers killed in an accident which sparked rioting, we speak exclusively to one of their families. and they re the talk of the terraces can luton town win the championship play off and host the premier league s biggest stars at their humble home? and newsnight at 1030, we will go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today s big story. plus, a first look at tomorrow s front pages. good evening. the presenter phillip schofield has resigned from his remaining itv shows and has quit the network entirely, after acknowleging that he had an affair with a younger male colleague at this morning. in a statement, mr schofield said he had lied about the relationship to itv, as well as to his agents, lawy