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one billion us dollars. hello and welcome to bbc news. russian and ukrainian forces are still fighting in the streets of bakhmut — which russia has been trying to capture for several months. 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. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, reports from kyiv. this ...

Kim Jong Un maintains that his development of nuclear weapons is focused on defending North Korea against a hostile US and South Korea.

Cause for alarm despite the obama administration playing down the danger. >> we should be concerned. the fact the government is trying to pass it off as not being enriched or weapon grade the fact is it could be used as a dirty bomb. you get uranium and radio active material and case it in conventional explosives and the blast will kill many people. >> tim walsh is a security associate at the mit studies program. good to see you. >> good to see. >> are you concerned about this? >> i am concerned about a general problem but in this particular case no, i am not. the international atomic agency s...

110,000 u.s. troops within range of that missile. this comes as a new report says the pentagon is beefing up our presence in the gulf, sending in more navy ships and doubling the number of mine sweepers assigned to the area. michael adler, public policy scholar at and my understanding you attended most of the negotiating sessions with iran in recent memory. is that true? >> yes i have. jon: as you look at both sides, the iranian side and basically the rest of the world that wants them to drop their nuclear program what can you tell us about the approaches that each side is taking? >> well the ...

Weapon-grade rawrm for nuclear weapons. >> david albright is a former u.n. weapons inspector. the site referred to in these telix messages seen here by satellite in 2003. you can see from this satellite image a year later that the iranians raised the facility, destroyed the facility shortly after the u.s. invaded iraq. this new report suggest as parallel nuclear program was being run by the military there. shepard? >> shepard: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. jennifer, thanks so much. the republic presidential candidates now getting set for a couple of big primaries. we will see where th...