as an act of service he says he hopes sharing details of his life will help others. once the book came out i felt incredibly free, i felt a huge weight off my shoulders. hello and welcome along. ukrainian forces have come under increased pressure from russian troops in the besieged city of bakhmut which russia has been trying to capture in months of intense fighting. the deputy mayor of the city has told the bbc that the 4,000 civilians still living there out of an original population of 75,000 have no gas, electricity or water. thousands of russian troops have died trying to take the eastern city. if it falls, it would be the first russian victory of note in more than six months. 0ur diplomatic correspondent, james landale, reports from kyiv. munitions explode this is bakhmut, or at least what s left of it, after some of the fiercest fighting since russia invaded ukraine. for more than six months, ukrainian forces have held off a ferocious onslaught, but now russian co
attacks targeting schoolgirls and in the past few weeks hundreds of girls have been hospitalised and aid agencies say they may have been singled out by religious groups. this is bbc news. now on bbc news witness history. hello. i m ben boulos. thanks forjoining me at the queer british museum in london for this edition of witness history. i ll bring you important moments from the past as told by the people who were there. in this episode, we re focusing on lgbt history, stories about lesbian, gay and trans people from all over the world. coming up: we hear how lesbian activists broke through bbc security to stage a protest on live tv. plus, the fight for lgbt rights in uganda where being gay was punishable by death. how the balkans war inspired a groundbreaking film about trans sex workers. and the fight to use the word 0lympics for the very first gay games. but first to san francisco, and the aids memorial that would make headlines all over the world. activist cleve jones
once the book came out, i felt i felt incredibly free. i felt a huge weight off my shoulders. hello and welcome to bbc news. ukrainian forces have come under increased pressure from russian troops in the besieged city of bakhmut which russia has been trying to capture in months of intense fighting. the deputy mayor of the city has told the bbc that the 4,000 civilians still living there out of an original population of 75,000 - have no gas, electricity or water. thousands of russian troops have died trying to take the eastern city. if it falls, it would be the first russian victory of note in more than six months. 0ur diplomatic correspondent, james landale, reports from kyiv. munitions explode this is bakhmut, or at least what s left of it, after some of the fiercest fighting since russia invaded ukraine. for more than six months, ukrainian forces have held off a ferocious onslaught, but now russian commanders are growing increasingly confident, including the leader of t
of poison attacks, targetting schoolgirls. in the past few weeks, hundreds of girls have been hospitalised. aid agencies say they may have been singled out by religious groups opposed to female education. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week on the show. keeping it caribbean, 75 years on we celebrate the windrush legacy on british culture. it is a melting pot, all that seasoning. laughter round the world in seven days, we follow one man s incredible journey. the wind really makes it quite cold, it is cold when the wind blows. . ., ~ blows. and we are in new york askin: if blows. and we are in new york asking if the blows. and we are in new york asking if the american - blows. and we are in new york asking if the american dream l asking if the american dream had a sound, could this be it? piano plays we start this week in brixton, a part of south london that has become the go to full caribbean british culture from food to fashion and art. but it hasn t always been l
well, i m going to be discussing all of that with these two. there they are, an it energy watcher from greenpeace and the vice president of a huge multinational who specialise in internet connections and data centres all around the world. also, can you help heat a city by streaming the latest cat video? i m going to be catching up with the big boss of one of europe s top power companies capturing waste energy to warm your homes. wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. you know, all of our lives are moving more and more online and more and more of that life is now in the cloud. we store our photos, ourfamily memories, our shopping lists, and our endless, endless emails to this other place. but the cloud is not some bunch of mist floating in the sky. no, it s a vast digital infrastructure huge networks of cables and processes, the cogs behind the machine powering our online world. and housing all of this are dat