who are already coping with a steep rise in the cost of living. the increase is the result of the regulator increasing its price cap. now on bbc news, the media show. hello. today, ukrainians should be celebrating 31 years of independence from soviet rule. instead, there s a grimmer anniversary. it s exactly six months since the start of the war. i want to look back at the journalism over those months. what does the reporting taught us about the war? and what has the war taught us about the media? i m joined byjournalists who ve been in ukraine and are there now and some who were also in russia. deborah haynes is sky news defence and security editor. nic robertson is international diplomatic editor at cnn, we have a freelance journalist and so too is olga tokarczuk. and francis scarr is here from bbc monitoring. welcome to you all and thank you so much for coming on the media show. olga, if we just start with you, where are you and what is the atmosphere like in ukraine today
facilities used by rebel forces. energy bills for millions of households in britain are to rise by 80% in october. now, though, hardtalk. welcome to a special edition of hardtalk with me, stephen sackur. it is six months since vladimir putin ordered a multi front military invasion of ukraine. he set in motion a war which has already taken a terrible human toll and had profound consequences for european security, big power relations, and the world economy. putin calculated it was an aggression he could get away with. six months of interviews with key players may help you decide if he was right. in late 2021, us and uk intelligence made it clear russia was massing a major fighting force along ukraine s eastern and northern border. this didn t look like a sabre rattling exercise. it looked like an invasion in the making. at first, the ukrainian government led by volodymyr zelensky downplayed it, didn t want to believe it. but by mid january, kyiv s defence minister, oleksii
hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. a national emergency has been declared in pakistan after almost 1,000 people died following severe monsoon flooding that began injune. more than 33 million people have been affected by the country s heaviest rainfall in decades. hundreds of thousands of homes have been destroyed, and thousands of people have taken refuge in relief camps. the worst affected areas are in the provinces of balochistan and sindh in the south, from where our pakistan correspondent pumza fihlani reports. moving to higher ground. families wade through the water with the only belongings they could salvage. in southern pakistan, many streets have been turned into rivers. families have set up tents on the few roads that are still visible. it s been more than ten days of heavy rains and yet the streets are still flooded. this is one of the main roads linking this community to the outside world. something has also happened here. many of the
This has been a deadly failure of deacon flexion. Complexion is the by which humanitarian agencies engage with Defence Forces to ensure they are protected in conflict zones, and it was obviously a deadly failure. It cannot be rushed aside or covered over and i do not believe that any australian would expect us to do anything other than to continue to demand the transparency and accountability. The former United States House Speaker nancy pelosi a close ally of President Biden has signed a letter together with almost forty Congressional Democrats calling for a halt to Weapons Transfers to israel. The letter urges the white house to conduct its own probe into an israeli airstrike that killed seven aid workers on monday. It says the strike against the humanitarian convoy along with the ever worsening humanitarian crisis in gaza makes it unjustifiable to approve further weapons deliveries. So along with the growing number of countries aid organisations have stressed the need for an indepen