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mission heading for the largest planet in our solar system. welcome to the programme. president zelensky says he will continue to push allies to send tanks to ukraine after a meeting of 50 countries ended earlier with no agreement on the issue. ukraine says the tanks are needed to break the deadlock in the war. germany, which hosted the meeting, is under pressure to allow its leopard 2 tanks to be exported to ukraine. the new german defence minister says no decision has been made, but he added that berlin would not stand in the way of exports if its allies decided to act together. the uk has committed to sending 1a challenger 2 tanks to the front line. russia has warned that such a move would mark an extremely dangerous escalation. here s our europe correspondentjessica parker. this is what kyiv wants, but can t yet have. german made leopard tanks to help defend and reclaim its territory from russia. britain has gone first in sending western main battle tanks, but it ....
injury, winning the australian and french opens. and last on centre court is serena williams who has not played a singles match since hobbling off centre court in the first round last year. she said she had a lot of motivation to make sure that was not her last memory. elsewhere, 12 brits in action and an early win for ryan peniston on his wimbledon singles debut. thank you very much, laura. time for a look at the weather. here s chris fawkes. we saw a bit of sunshine poking through the clouds at wimbledon and it is across eastern areas that we have got bright and sunny skies. however, it is a day of weather contrasts and it is not nice everywhere by any stretch, across western areas, thicker cloud on the way in and heavy rain around. meanwhile, to the east of the uk, we have got a heatwave, look at the temperatures, well above normal, even into the mid 40s across parts of southern italy. that is because the high temperatures are caused by a big ridge in thejet stream w ....
In sevastopol hours after the attack. The Russian DefenceMinistry Said one serviceman was missing. Our Correspondentjames Waterhouse has more from kyiv. This is clearly a continuation of ukraines tactic of specifically targeting sites in occupied crimea, but the apparent direct hit of russias naval headquarters in sevastopol is hugely symbolic. Its not yet clear what operational damage will be caused for russia, but this is a place where it has exerted such dominance through its navy, where it launches missiles across ukraine, it blockades ukrainian ports. And i think what this attack does is undermine russias continued occupation in a place that seems a cornerstone of its invasion from as far back as 2014. There is also a connection between this Missile ....
And purchased them, passing them on to ukraine. why are they necessary right now? the ukrainians the russians are doing two things to ukraine. a campaign of terror with drones and missiles that is against civilian infrastructure and is designed to paralyse the ukrainiansjust as much as the west. at the same time, they re waging a war of attrition, a land war in the eastern provinces. and for that war of attrition not to wear out the ukrainian forces and wear out western consensus, it is important to give ukrainians tanks so as to reduce their reliance on artillery and to allow them manoeuvrability so as to get some movement. that is something that the leopard 2, is supposed to be one of the best in the world for because it has firepower, manoeuvrability and is very agile. poland s foreign minister ....
Train ukrainiansjust a week equipping. it was a new was sent to train ukrainians just a week or two before the russian invasion. and future soldiers, while reducing inventory units did it invest more. when the premise took the decision to invest in 2020 he broke with convention and recognise the need to reverse the decline. it was a strong start and now we are investing more than £43 billion in the army s new equipment plan over the next decade. the next challenge is to ensure that we spend such an investment in the right place and use the resulting equipment in the way. there are too many examples where war gaining has exposed our inability is only to be ignored because the result was inconvenient. i am delighted patriotism at this critical time. i know he is the at the right time for the british army and i have always said that as a threat change so must ....