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To the program. We begin in russia where President Putin has carried out a rare reshuffle of his security chiefs. His top Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu has been removed from his post. Hes a long standing ally of Vladimir Putin and has served as Defence Minister since 2012, Playing A Key role in russias invasion of ukraine. His replacement will be andrei belousov, an economist and the deputy Prime Minister. Earlier our russia editor Steve Rosenberg explained that at the kremlin, reshuffles are unusual. Whoever the russian government ministers are, whoever s sitting around that cabinet table, there is one man and one man alone in russia who calls the shots, and that is Vladimir Putin. Hes the man with all the power. Having said that, a Government Reshuffle in russia is interesting, particularly when key ministers like the Defence Minister is being changed. They dont happen too often. The foreign minister, hes been in his post for 20 years. Mr shoigu, he has been Defence Minister for 12
Their Surprise Offensive two days ago, they claim to have taken nine villages altogether, something the bbc has not been able to verify. There have also been strikes on the russian side of the border in belgorod on sunday. The Russian Military claimed a ukrainian airstrike destroyed a section of a 10 storey apartment block. With the latest on the conflict, our defence Correspondentjonathan Beale reports from vovchansk, in Kharkiv Under Russian attack. The road to russia, just a few miles from the border. And proof that the russians are back in the Kharkiv Region again. The town of vovchansk was liberated in a surprise ukrainian offensive less than two years ago. Now its at risk of falling back into russian hands. Alexi, a local policeman, is once again telling the population to leave. He says its better than dying. The shelling is constant and chaotic. And its all over the town. We quickly move on at the sound of a russian drone. This is all thats left of sergeis home. The familiar rus
North yorkshire, one of 27 newly designated Bathing Sites. Some brave souls are already in the water of the river nidd but how clean is it . Arsenal take the premier League Title Race to the final weekend. Even the heavy rain at old tafford couldnt stop them as they beat Manchester United. And were set for a thrilling finish to the season. Idid it i love you top boy, happy valley and the Sixth Commandment were some of the big winners at the Bafta Television awards but the crown left empty handed. Good morning. Yesterday was the warmest day of the year so far. In chertsey, the temperature reached 27. 5 celsius. Today, rain is coming in from the south west, affecting some western areas. Dry, sunny and warm further east. I will have all the details later. Its monday, 13th may. New evidence has been uncovered that the British Government was warned by its own Embassy Staff in the us about the risk of hiv from contaminated blood in the early 1980s. Its now thought more than 1,200 nhs patient
And we still have some one plateau across parts of scotland, northern england, down through the midlands and east anglia today, but it does not like that everywhere. In the south west, rather grey and cloudy with rain. All courtesy of an area of low pressure, the swell of cloud you can see here, and the thing is this band of Rain Affecting South western wales, Northern Ireland is particularly slow moving, so there are some fairly beefy Rainfall Accumulations to come through today. 20 or 30 millimetres for these areas, but double that of the high ground, so there could be some localised Surface Water Flooding issues. Because the rain man is a slow moving, chances are if it is raining with you every moment, it is raining with you every moment, it likely still will be towards the end of the day. We call parts of north and Eastern Scotland and the east side of inwood, keeping some warm spells of sunshine. The days top temperature perhaps reaching 25 in parts of east anglia. Yes, it will fe