including some top secret material. the documents first appeared on online platforms, such as twitter, lichan and telegram, as well on the messaging platform discord. the leak reveals information about the deployment and state of ukrainian and russian forces ahead of a ukrainian spring offensive, and appear to outline us training and equipment being provided to ukraine ahead of that offensive. there are also suggestions that ukraine s air force may not be able to withstand more russian attack. may not be able to withstand more russian attacks. other leaked material included intelligence on other countries such as china, israel, and south korea. officials say they do not currently know the source of the leaks. the bbc s barbara plett usher has more. the pentagon says the us is still very much into the finding out phase. we are told this is a serious risk to us national security and a matter of top priority. a number of government agencies are working together to find out how t
hello and thanks forjoining us. here s your latest sports news. so often the tennis clay court season is associated with rafa nadal dominating the headlines, but the spaniard was a notable absentee on monday as the monte carlo masters got underway. he s been ruled out with a hip injury and he s not the only one missing. world number two carlos alcaraz is also out because of injury, whilst world number iii cameron norrie may have wished he hadn t bothered after a surprise first round defeat. jim lumsden rounds up the best of the action on day one. an upset looked a possibility when cameron norrie s serve was broken by the well 33, the first time of asking, looks like we were francisco cerundolo strolled through the first set. the number 11s it was always up against development instead with identity and who took the second set to wrap up victory an hour and 12 minutes. next up isa an hour and 12 minutes. next up is a meeting with matteo berrettini who made light work of the ame
abbey. cheering. and spain sjon rahm wins the masters in augusta and says he was inspired by the late, great seve ballesteros. china has carried out what it says is a mock air blockade of taiwan using jets carrying live ammunition in the latest escalation of tensions in the south china sea. in response the us has sent a destroyer to the area which the chinese have condemned as an illegal incursion. china began a series of military exercises just hours after the taiwanese president returned from a visit to the united states. it views taiwan as a breakway province that it wants to bring back under its control. shaima khalil reports. a show of force and fury. for a third day, china s military continued what it calls operationjoint sword aerial and naval blockade drills to seal off the island. the chinese army showed this short video of simulated attacks on taiwan, with missiles fired from land, sea and air into the island s territory. the chinese military confirmed that its ai
suella braverman, deserves a second chance after allegations of a security breach. shadow home secretary, yvette cooper, remains unconvinced. now questions about whether she has given an accurate description of what happened, she said she reported it straightaway, there are other reports that, no, she didn t and was confronted on this. polls open in brazil to chose either former left wing leader luiz inacio lula da silva orfar right incumbentjair bolsonaro as the next president. and why french vineyard owners are buying up land in south east england after a summer of record breaking temperatures. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. south korea is in mourning after more than 150 people were killed while out celebrating halloween. the crush happened after 100,000 people, many of them teenagers, gathered in one of the city s most popular nightlife districts for the first public halloween celebration since the covid pandemic. people have been
hello and welcome to unspun world, the programme where we get the in depth views of the bbc s experts. this is the heart of kyiv in ukraine. it was a lot quieter here when i was last in the city, before the russian invasion, and although there haven t been any attacks on kyiv recently, there is still a curfew in place and every now and then, you hear the sound of air raid sirens. there have been reports of russian nuclear missiles being moved by train deep inside russian territory, though this sort of thing has happened before. but given that the ukrainian forces are pushing back the russians in southern and eastern ukraine, everyone is trying to work out what president putin might do next. absurdly enough, the day after he declared that four areas of ukraine were now an indissoluble part of russia, it became clear that russia doesn t actually control the entirety of any of those four areas, since ukraine has been busy recapturing some of the territory it has lost. but how ne