nation and called for a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, but can the president convince the country do something this time. more celebrations today. the world is watching, the uk is watching, many of the members of the public have arrived here, this just the second day of four days of celebrations. this is a public holiday in the uk. how many public figures can command that in honor of their service. sadly the queen won t be appearing as planned here. reluctantly the palace said she s had to pull out, she suffered discomfort yesterday during the military commemorations in central london. and that happened through the day i understand from my sources and she had to pull out of today s service. it is quite a distance here, the service is very long and she is clearly overexerted herself. but prince charles will be stepping in for her which is pretty symbolic. she just can t do what she thinks she is able to do. the service marks the queen s years on the th
almost every minute. church of ukraine says three monks were killed by striking nearby. nada bashir is covering this for us. what is the latest in severdonetsk? reporter: president zelenskyy has acknowledged the significance losses, the 20% around mark of territory that is now in russian control. and of course severdonetsk has become the key focal point of ukraine s counter offensive against russia s military offensive in ukraine. we ve seen severe bombardment in severdonetsk, the situation there has been described as difficult by senior ukrainian military officials. and of course the ukrainian armed forces, the troops there in that city are facing a significant risk of potentially being encircled by the russian trooped. but as you mentioned, despite the situation on the ground, we ve heard from the ukrainian armed forces that they do not
it just underlines the amount of defiance that there is in this country when it comes to these this russian invasion force. if the russians thought these people were going to back down easily, capitulate, welcome them, they were very badly mistaken. matthew chance. another country deeply enmeshed in the invasion of ukraine is belarus to the north of this country. for weeks we ve been telling you about the russian buildup of troops there, there were those exercises, that s what the kremlin described them as at a time. then came this. the video showed russian trooped entering ukraine from belarus. belarus has insisted its forces are not involved in the invasion, in fact, belarus currently hosting those talks between russia and ukraine when they happen. reuters reporting the third round of talks could resume monday. during this all, with the world s attention focused on its neighbor, belarus held a