of the june parliamentary elections. police in paris fired tear gas to disperse protesters after a demonstration turned violent. more than 50 people were arrested. now on bbc, this is hardtalk. souvlaki is a frontline state hosting thousands of refugees and funnelling weapons to care. putin has wanted outside interference could be by lightning retaliation. my guest is the souvlaki and prime minister. how much risk is two year prepared to take. prime minister eduard heger, welcome. thank you very much for the invitation. here we are in bratislava. slovakia is on the front lines of this ukraine war. you share a land border. you have taken tens of thousands of refugees. you are funnelling arms into ukraine for the kyiv government. do you feel that, as this war continues week by week, month by month, that the danger for your country increases? actually, i think it is decreasing, because of the bravery of the ukrainian people. because they have been really showing us such an examp
by president macron to raise the retirement age. and new zealand re opens its borders to international tourists for the first time in more than two years. asa as a new day begins in ukraine there is new hope they can be evacuees from the city of mariupol after on the steelworks were bought to safety in the weekend. it is thought 80 to 100 people were rescued by the un and red cross aid agencies, some getting theirfirst glimpses of their first glimpses of daylight after weeks spent in tunnels deep in the industrial complex. the ukraine military says one more round of evacuations are needed to get civilians out of a steel mill. while hopes remained for them there are growing fears for other parts of ukraine, having witnessed the horrors of mariupol and surrounded by russian forces, one of those towns is macro to from where one of our correspondence sent this report. lysychansk. we are following a medic pointing out he is taking us close to the front lines to hidden base when
a 16-year-old girl. roslyn joins me to talk about what happens next. good evening and welcome to the show. war crimes, that s what russia seems to still be carrying out in its war against ukraine. early today, russian forces bombarded the ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia, killing at least 17 people and wounding thousands of others. the shelling was concentrated on a number of apartment complexes in one of zaporizhzhia s most densely populated residential areas. another he instance of vladimir putin s invading army violating the laws of war. ostensibly, it served as a particularly on the battlefield against russia and we recent weeks. perhaps, the most noteworthy of which occurred yesterday, when ukrainians destroyed a massive bridge linking russia with the crimean peninsula, a critical supply route for the kremlin s forces, as you might imagine, a thin skinned putin has not taken these defeats well. on the contrary, he has renewed his nuclear saber rattling, unnerving weste
also on the programme. the faces of the ten victims of an explosion in county donegal they include two teenagers and a five year old girl. and max verstappen reigns supreme injapan to win the f1 world championship for a second time, despite atrocious conditions. good evening. president putin has tonight accused ukraine of an act of terrorism after a key strategic bridge built by russia was badly damaged by an explosion on saturday. his comments came after russian missile strikes in the middle of the night killed at least 13 people in the city of zaporizhzhia, bringing the death toll in and around the city to more than 60 people in the past nine days. president zelensky accused russia of waging constant terror against ukraine s civilian population. the missile strikes followed the attack on the 12 mile long kerch bridge, which links russia to occupied crimea. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams reports from the ukrainian capital, kyiv. in zaporizhzhia, this is what escal