control of the eastern city to moscow s army. the battle for bakhmut has been the longest and bloodiest of the war. this aerialfootage taken earlier this month shows intense shelling in a residential area. most people fled before fighting broke out. bakhmut is of little strategic value, but its capture would be a symbolic victory for russia. the battle for bakhmut began last august. ukraine says its forces still control part of it. our bbc verify team has been looking at images that show the extent of the destruction there during these months of fighting. this is bakhmut before russia invaded ukraine. once famous for its sparkling wine and thousands of rose bushes. this is bakhmut now reduced to a landscape of ruin and death. but not defeated, the ukrainian army told us. ukrainian troops stay in south western part of bakhmut. ukrainian army keep pushing the enemy from site of the city. 70,000 people used to live here before russia s full scale invasion of ukraine. i was her
thank you forjoining us. here s what s coming up. we start with football because manchester united have qualified for next season s champions league after thrashing chelsea 4 1 in the premier league at old trafford. erik ten hag s side needed only a point, but secured all three in style. casimiro scored his second goal in two matches to send them on their way when he opened the scoring with a header in the sixth minute. marcus rashford scored the fourth after anthony martial and a bruno fernandes penalty had put the home side firmly in control. it means united are now guaranteed a top four finish and a return to europe s premier club competition. so we finalised the season and that was our objective. we achieved it and that s huge, especially in this league because there are many competitors who also have the same objectives and they have all good squads and teams. so when you achieve it, it s a massive performance and we are really happy with it. i think it was an open game,
wagoner this is wagoner bbc news. live from washington. this is bbc news. as russian mercenaries from the wagner group say they are pulling out of bakhmut, bbc verify reveals the extent of the destruction cause by months of fighting. could there be movement in the us debt talks? the new york times reports the white house and republicans are closing in on a deal. and the uk sees record migration numbers, after a decade of promises to bring them down. hello, i m sumi somaskanda. we start in ukraine, where officials have dismissed claims that the city of bakhmut has fallen to russia, after wagner mercenaries said they ve started handing over
bbc verify has seen footage showing it is now used by the russian mercenary group wagner. here is the military group s founder at the winery on the 23rd of february. several months later, he is there again. using visible terrain and structures, we managed to match the video to the winery s entrance. this is exactly where he stood. as russian forces have moved across the city, entire neighbourhoods have been destroyed. it s a site that has echoes of other cities that have faced russia s brutal bombardments in other countries. from grozny in chechnya in 2000, to moscow s intervention in syria reducing aleppo to rubble, to cities in ukraine. russia may claim bakhmut is theirs, but in reality, there is little left to control. 0lga malchevska, bbc news. meanwhile, away from
want to make sure this is an agreement for the american people. it takes a while to make it happen, we are all trying to make it happen. meanwhile, a top us general, mark milley, has said that failure to reach a deal could have an impact on us national security. i think if we defaulted that would have significant economic consequences which would then translate into national security consequences. paying troops, the morale of troops, weapons systems, contracts, all of that would be impacted. readiness clearly would be impacted, so our large scale exercises that we do at various training centres would probably slow down or come to a halt in many, many cases. treasury secretary janet yellen has said that the us government could become unable to pay all of its bills on time as soon asjune 1st if congress doesn t first raise the debt limit. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.