Pipping Up News Today

great to have you with us. we begin with some news from the war in ukraine. russia says its troops have fully captured the ukrainian city of bakhmut. kyiv has denied 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 hours, the russian news agency interfax has said president putin congratulated his troops and the paramilitary wag...

important issues facing her country. she remains defiant when it comes to the treatment of the minority rohingya refugees and says that she is in no hurry to step down as the leader of the country. you are the worlds longest serving female leader. often described as the iron lady of bangladesh, you are the daughter of the founder of the country. i just want to know, how have the last 14 years have been for you personally? the last 14 years have been the best time for bangladesh. in eve...

Debate about scotland still. Time now for the are. Hello, and welcome to sportsday. Im olly foster, these are your headlines this evening. Manchester united, well be at old trafford shortly for their Champions League match against galatasary. Getting back on the horse max whitlock makes his major championship return. Well head to antwerp and the world gymnastics championships. Quarterfinal place is still in the balance. We will check in with ireland and scotland ahead of that crunch final poll m...

The season, they face the turkish champions. The Home Secretary has been centre stage at the conservative Party Conference today, warning delegates of what she called a Hurricane Of Mass Migration. Suella braverman said politicians have been too slow to recognise the scale of the problem around the world and too squeamish to tackle it for fear of being called racist. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister continued to be pressed on whether or not the h52 rail line to manchester would be scrapped. He said...

Possible. great to talk to you and thank you for coming on. stay with us here on bbc news. we have more coming up at the top of the hour. hello there. a lovely start to the weekend, especially across england and wales where we have had lots of sunshine so blue skies over these blue billboards in south wales near pontypridd. a bit more cloud for scotland and northern ireland but still managed some bright spells and, actually, for scotland, northern ireland, england and wales we have temperatures ...

Ireland but still managed some bright spells and, actually, for scotland, northern ireland, england and wales we have temperatures reaching the low 20s in warmest spots, 21.5 there making the warm day the warm day of the year so far for wales. over the next few hours we have another weatherfront moving in, pipping up bringing a bit of heavy rain for a time to scotland and northern ireland but as we get towards dawn that will tend to start to fizzle away. clear skies for england and wales allowin...