allegation that may have been made, and something that trips the wire, if you like, it s the threshold for former disciplinary action. a man is arrested by police in the us state of illinois after six people were shot dead at an independence day parade. 50,000 people have been put on evacuation alert as floods hit sydney for the third time this year. a bbc investigation has found that children as young as 11 have been housed in temporary accomodation as record numbers are placed into care. the world s first fully working sand battery is installed in finland, with developers calling it a major breakthrough for green energy. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. borisjohnson s decision to appoint chris pincher as deputy chief whip is facing further scrutiny as a former top civil servant at the foreign office, lord mcdonald, writes to the parliamentary standards commissioner this morning, saying that borisjohnson was briefed in person about an inv
i m @annitabbc or you can use the hashtag #bbcyourquestions. borisjohnson s standards adviser says there is a legitimate question over whether the british pm broke the ministerial code after getting fined for partygate. but his colleagues still insist he won t need to resign. these are significant issues but we have had range of accountability and transparency around it. i don t think this ends in a leadership challenge. tech firms are urged to do more to make it safer for women and girls to be online. from fine china to fish and chips we go on a whistle stop tour to see what merchandise has been created hello and welcome, if you re watching in the uk or around the world. within the past 2a hours, both the us and germany have announced that they re to send new weapons systems to ukraine. germany has this morning promised kyiv an air defence system the iris t system which chancellor olaf scholz says will enable ukraine to defend an entire city against russian air attac
is the donetsk region, and specifically the towns of slovya nsk and kramatorsk. slovyansk was where the uprising started in 2014, these russian inspired uprisings in the annexation of crimea. when that happened there was a different prime minister of the country, yesterday i did a fairly long interview with him and one of the points he made that i thought was really interesting was that has been a policy of appeasement with president putin going all the way back to 2008, he traced this crisis we are talking about now all the way back to that. let s listen to him. sometimes we were deaf, putin was very vocal in 2008, saying he was very ready to restore the soviet union. and that the biggest tragedy was the fall of the soviet union. do and that the biggest tragedy was the fall of the soviet union. fall of the soviet union. do you think this could fall of the soviet union. do you think this could still fall of the soviet union. do you think this could still turn - fall of the soviet u
they have been requesting them for some time, and our military is losing ground in the east. thick, black smoke could be seen in the skies above the city of sevrodonesk. for weeks, skies above the city of sevrodonesk. forweeks, it skies above the city of sevrodonesk. for weeks, it has been a target for the russian military. there are reports of a strike or a chemical plant in a city that has been almost completely destroyed. the direction ofthe completely destroyed. the direction of the situation completely destroyed. the direction of the situation in completely destroyed. the direction of the situation in the completely destroyed. the direction of the situation in the donbas - completely destroyed. the direction of the situation in the donbas is - of the situation in the donbas is very complicated given the presence of large scale chemical production in donetsk, the russian army strikes there, including blind air bombing, arejust crazy. find there, including blind air bombing,
to slovya nsk, to lyman in the north. the only certainty this will be costly and brutal for whoever wins this war. jonathan beale, bbc news, eastern ukraine. the businessman and philanthropist osman kavala has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in turkey after being found guilty of attempting to overthrow the government. the ruling was met with boos from a packed courtroom. human rights groups have condemned it as a travesty of justice. with me is our news reporter mark lobel. what is the significance of