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in mind the us has already committed around $15 billion to ukraine, just in security assistance, since russia launched its full—scale invasion last year. what we are going to hear today, we understand, is another $1 billion in a mixture of security and other assistance. we have not been told the details, the mix yet. but it is yet another pledge by the americans, in what has become a very, very constant stream of pledges of all sorts of assistance to keep ukraine float and fighting, as this war goes on. i think what is interesting about this visit, which is the sixth visit by the s...

the date on the video suggests it was shot today. the town is near the front line of the fighting, about 20 miles from the disputed city of bakhmut. the sound, and the way the people in the street look up, suggest it may have been a missile or possibly an artillery shell. ukrainian officials say at least 3a other people were wounded. the attack happened shortly after the us secretary of state antony blinken arrived in kyiv — the first visit by a senior american official since ukraine launched its counter—offensive against russian forces. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams ga...

that time, there was notjust the furlough scheme but also grants administered by local authorities, now because there was a fear that so many businesses fell over, speed was prioritised over the normal anti—fraud controls, you can't be bothered with the normal underwriting if you need to get the money out by the day, by the week, and so there were 20 people looking after this at the department for business enterprise and innovation and skills at the time, just 20 people, throwing money out there, so for example, there were 6 billion distributed injust for example, there were 6 bill...

his escape has triggered alerts at ports and borders around with the uk — with reports of delays because of the increased securtiy checks. prisoner escapes are unusual — there've been just five since 2017. our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford, is outside scotland yard. kate is at heathrow and chris mason joins us from westminster. daniel, what happened?— joins us from westminster. daniel, what happened? daniel khalife was bein: held what happened? daniel khalife was being held at _ what happened? daniel khalife was being held at hmp _ what happened? daniel khalife wa...

they've broken through the first defensive line. i think they'll split the russian forces in crimea in the next couple of weeks, months. so i am exceedingly proud of the ukrainian military. well, that is extraordinarily upbeat, if i may say so, compared with what we see in leaks from classified pentagon documents suggesting — and i'm quoting here from a leak in the washington post — that kyiv won't fulfil its principal objective of severing that land bridge to crimea in this year's counter—offensive. i think they're wrong. those same people told us kyiv would fall in four days,...