the headlines. russia's long—serving defence minister sergei shoigu has been removed from his post. we'll examine the significance of the kremlin reshuffle. it comes as fighting intensifies in ukraine's northeast kharkiv region. we'll bring you a special report from the front—line. this devastation — one man's house — was created by a russian glide bomb. jet roars nearby. and that's the sound of a jet somewhere. explosions. israel says it's opened a new humanitarian crossing into gaza as the us warns a full—scale invasion of rafah would be disastrous. and top boy, happy valley and the sixth commandment take the big prizes at the bafta television awards.

we begin this hour with a shake—up in russia's military hierarchy. russia's defence minister sergei shoigu is being removed from his post and will become the new secretary of russia's security council. he's a long—standing ally of vladimir putin and has served as defence minister since 2012, playing a key role in russia's 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. he's 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 don't happen too often. for 20 years. mr shoigu has been defence ministerfor 12 years. he was appointed by vladimir putin in 2012, i think. the two men were said to be pretty close for a long time. they even went on holiday a few times to siberia together. last week we were on red square watching the the victory day parade and defence minister shoigu was there inspecting the russian troops. but there had been rumours for some time that he could be moved, he could lose his job and it seems that's what's happening. he still has a job to go to. he's being moved to the russian security council as the head of the security council. but i think that's a demotion compared to being defence minister, who's coming in, who's replacing him.

someone called andrei belousov, who's an economist, and i think that reflects the fact that over the last couple of years, president putin has put the russian economy on a war footing and wants an economist to to run things because it's vital, as far as he's concerned, that the the defence industry has enough money to fund this war. i've been speaking to russia expert, ariel cohen, a senior fellow at the atlantic council in washington, dc, and he's given me his assessment on the situation. shoigu who was an unpopular defence minister, to say the least. a lot of people in the military blamed him for the failures of the first year, year and a half of the war with ukraine. yevgeny prigozhin, the rebel of 2023, he rebelled injuly and was put

down and then murdered. down and then murdered, was demanding that putin fire shoigu. so, shoigu is kicked upstairs to the security council. but the most important thing here is the removal of a very powerful man, nikolai patrushev. patrushev is a spook. he is, in fact, a security manager, vehemently anti—western. and now apparently he is going to the russian senate, which means it's also kicked upstairs. so, mr belousov, whom i met, who is a very statist economist, is not a free—market economist who advocated things like emergency taxes on extractive industries and whatnot. industries and whatnot, so he will be somewhat

of putin's albert speer, the german architect who supervised very efficiently the end game of the third reich in the military industrial sphere. and i think belousov, who actually was a part of a quite successful economic team together with is going to be in charge of military production and financial issues, including evasion of the western sanctions. and what will be the implications then for the ongoing war in ukraine? more money, more economic swaps. we are hearing about russian gold being sold to earn revenue for russia in the middle east and elsewhere. more dealings as we saw when russia sells, for example, oil to india, and then that oil is smuggled

back or sold back to europe. and keeping the russian economy on the straight and narrow as much as they can. and i hearfrom my moscow sources that belousov is a defence minister, notjust for the war in ukraine, but if the war in ukraine succeeds, possibly russia will continue its push to the west, be it the baltic states or poland, which makes the whole thing much, much more dangerous for the west because that will be a war with nato. and also belousov is not going to run military operations. there are generals and mr putin, who is increasingly comfortable in his role as a commander in chief. things in ukraine are

going betterfor russia. they are attacking from the northern border of ukraine, russian ukrainian border in the direction of kharkiv, the second largest city in ukraine. so, putin doesn't want to share the laurels with shoigu, with patrushev or anybody else. president zelensky says there's �*fierce fighting' along a �*large part�* of the kharkiv border in eastern ukraine. russia says it has captured another four villages in the region — an area where russian troops had been pushed back nearly two years ago. it means that since they launched their surprise offensive two days ago, they have taken nine villages. today, there have also been strikes on the russian side of the border in belgorod with russian military saying a ukrainian air strike destroyed a section of a ten—storey apartment block. with the latest on the conflict, our defence correspondent jonathan beale reports from vovchansk. 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 it's at risk of falling back into russian hands. alexi, a local policeman, is once again telling the population to leave. he says it's better than dying. the shelling is constant and chaotic.

and it's all over the town. the population to leave. he says it's better than dying. the shelling is constant and chaotic. and it's all over the town. we quickly move on at the sound of a russian drone. this is all that's left of sergei's home. the familiar russian tactic of reducing towns to rubble. but sergei says he can't leave. he needs to look after his goats — now his only worldly possessions. you can still hear the artillery battle going on. it was more intense yesterday. this devastation — one man's house — was created by a russian glide bomb.

jet roars nearby. and that's the sound of a jet somewhere. explosions. ukraine's outgunned and outnumbered, and russia's using aerial glide bombs to devastating effect. alexi simply says, "look at what's happening". for some, it's made the decision to flee unavoidable, though it's still heartbreaking for olexander. this was the home he grew up in. he doesn't know if he'll ever return. ukrainian officials insist they were ready.

not everyone agrees. this drone footage appears to show russian troops crossing the border unopposed. ..i�*ve been in front line. for something you've already fought for before in 2022. same again. you're angry? very angry. denys, a ukrainian reconnaissance commander, helped push back the russians in 2022. now he's having to fight for the same territory again. translation: there was no first line of defence. - we saw it. the russiansjust walked in. where were the minefields? they just walked in. ukraine says it's repelling this attack with reinforcements, but russia's been probing the entire 800—mile front, and in kharkiv, exposed the weakness. jonathan beale,

bbc news, vovchansk. to the caucasus now and several thousand people have gathered outside parliament in georgia, continuing a campaign of demonstrations against a new law that would force organisations to declare foreign funding that they receive. 0ur south caucasus correspondent rayhan demytrie is in tbilisi and sent us this. protesters are back on the streets outside parliament and this time around, they're planning to spend the night here. we've seen some of the demonstrators with sleeping mats, with camping gear. we've met protesters of different generations here. there are parents with their children and even grandparents with their grandchildren. actually, i'm here to protect the independence of my country. i don't want to go back to ussr. i don't want to be back to the russia's influence. my final expectation is that we're going to win since this is going to be out, we're going to win the election.

and we already see that georgian people is so ready to be part of the european union. it is peaceful so far. some of the demonstrators are playing games to entertain themselves or making a lot of noise. the reason why they want to spend the night here is because on monday, mps from the governing georgian dream party will be meeting in this building to hold the third and final reading of this controversial law, which these people here in the streets have been opposing for several weeks now. the protesters call it the russian law, and they are determined to make the government hear their voices. they are worried that with the adoption of this law that georgia might lose its chance to one day join the european union.

emergency teams have intensified their efforts to distribute relief to those hit hard by devastating flash floods in northern afghanistan. the un and other agencies say more than 300 people have died and thousands injured after rivers of water and mud swept away houses. save the children estimates that more than half a million people have been severely affected by the floods triggered by unusually heavy seasonal rains. the province of baghlan was the worst hit. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

israel's military says it has opened a new aid crossing into gaza. the move was in coordination with the united states. in a statement, the military said the western erez crossing in the north of the strip is to transfer humanitarian aid. meanwhile, the un says more than 80,000 people

have fled rafah in the south since monday. palestinians have been told to leave the city and move towards a coastal area around al—mawasi, which israel calls an "expanded humanitarian zone". 0ur middle east correspondent, lucy williamson, reports from jerusalem, where citizens are marking israel's remembrance day. a country increasingly divided by its war aims, brought together for a day by its war dead. israel's prime minister marked the start of the nation's annual remembrance day, honouring those who died at the hands of israel's enemies, and seven months after the hamas attacks, the soldiers now fighting in gaza, who he said wanted to finish the war. translation: all of them, without exception, even - translation: all of them, without exception, - even the amputees, told me that the spirit of our people lifts them. "keep going until victory", and we will. netanyahu has insisted he will keep going in gaza, even as warnings increase over the future cost of war. america's president has said

he will not supply weapons for a major ground assault on the town of rafah. he doesn't want to see american weapons used in that kind of operation. that's not to say that he is going to abandon israel or cut them off from weapons. he was focused on a particular operation that he doesn't believe will succeed in defeating hamas and that will cause grievous harm. israel's army is still fighting hamas across the gaza strip, returning to areas it once labelled clear. and in rafah, once labelled safe, carrying out what it calls a precise operation. some of the i million palestinians sheltering there have begun moving out from eastern areas as the army edges in, lives shrinking with every move. zeinab ignored three evacuation orders before moving herfamily to the coastal area of deir al—balah, the tent that

sheltered them for five months in rafah too worn out to mend. translation: my children and i ran under fire. - people died in front of us. shrapnel hit our faces and houses were hit l by strikes while we ran. we have no money. 0ur situation is very hard. i came here and there is no place to stay. i siren wails. tonight, a siren marked the start of the remembrance ceremony byjerusalem's western wall. israel's military chief taking personal responsibility for those killed and kidnapped by hamas. but many here tonight will be thinking of those still fighting in gaza, where palestinians are also counting their dead. lucy williamson, bbc news, jerusalem.

brian katulis is a seniorfellow for us foreign policy at the middle east institute and has been speaking to me about the situation. even though it's good news that another crossing has opened, what we've heard for months now is that there's not sufficient crossings and not enough aid getting in. enough aid getting in there. signs of famine in northern gaza and then concerns about recent crossings that had been closed because of the military operations in the south. so, it's still very dicey for many ordinary palestinians who are simply caught in the cross hairs in the crosshairs here between hamas and israel. yeah, the implications of this promise of salt on rafah are quite considerable. i mean, they're trying to get civilians to evacuate, that's the key question. it doesn't seem like there are many places. there's this place, masawi,

that your report mentioned, but a lot of people just don't have the means to get there. there's also concerns i'm hearing from friends who live in gaza about a lack of basic food, meats in particular, and not enough cooking gas. so there's some basic issues there. and then humanitarian concerns, just sanitary conditions have been pretty awful in rafah. and you add to it more military combat in the next few weeks and people not really knowing or having a place to go that adds to the challenges. what do you see as the implications, then, of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's determination to pursue this course of military action? well, first, it's a sign that the hostage talks, the talks for a temporary ceasefire that have been on—again, off—again for about five months, really that there's less hope these days because of that. there's also still open questions that people haven't answered, including netanyahu, of how does this actually end? the goal of trying to defeat hamas as a military threat

is one that the united states shares. but neither the united states or israel have really mapped out a clear end state. what is desirable here? and israel is avoiding doing that while its continuing to try to get its hostages home and defeat hamas. so the implications for that and the bilateral relationship between the united states and israel are important because gaps have been emerging between the biden administration and netanyahu. you're watching bbc news. the duke and duchess of sussex visited a school in lagos on the final day of their three—day tour of nigeria. prince harry and meghan watched a basketball match and attended a fundraising event at the city's polo ground. the trip marks ten years of prince harry's invictus games for injured military personnel, which nigeria joined for the first time last year. top boy, happy valley and the sixth commandment were the big winners at tonight's bafta television awards. the most prestigious award — the bafta fellowship went to baroness floella benjamin. 0ur entertainment correspondent, lizo mzimba, (lee—zoh muh—zim—buh)

was at the royal festival hall in london some of the biggest names on the small screen turned out for this year's awards, presented for the second year running by rob beckett and romesh ranganathan. welcome to the 2024 bafta television awards. three very different shows shared the honours, winning two awards each. best drama went to the gritty gang drama top boy, with jasmine jobson also taking home the award for best supporting actress. i did it, i did it! i love you. thank you so much for the love and support. your girl finally brought it home. you reduced her to nothing with your endless, endless abuse and your nasty little threats. happy valley won a memorable moment for the climax of its final episode, while sarah lancashire won best actress for the second time. it goes to sarah lancashire. she paid tribute to her fellow cast members and to the bbc.

i feel very, very privileged to have been surrounded by these brilliant actors, and to charlotte moore and the bbc for giving this very british drama a very british home. i wondered if you had a man to share your life with. a limited series went to the real—life crime drama the sixth commandment. and the bafta goes to ..timothy spall. and one of its leeds won best actor. the reality is, sometimes you get a chance to play, a you know, people that are, have had a terrible thing happened to them, and all they wanted was love. and it's a beautiful thing to be able to tell a story about something like that. next week, strictly come dancing celebrates its 20th birthday. it received an early present, winning best entertainment show.

i'm thrilled that you are receiving the bafta fellowship this evening and i send my heartfelt congratulations. and there was a message from the prince of wales and a standing ovation as floella benjamin received the bafta fellowship. lizo mzimba, bbc news. skydivers from austria have made history after successfully completing a wingsuit flight through the tower bridge in london. 0ur reporter emily brown can tell us more. two skydivers took us this morning, here they are, they completed the first ever wing suit flight through tower bridge in london. here they are taking off from a helicopter at about 3,000 feet above the city. this was about 5.30 in the morning earlier, and here they go through the tower bridge. they then flow 260 feet back up — this is a complex manoeuvre called a flare — so that they could safely open their parachutes, and they then landed on the river thames.

and the flight lasted for about 45 seconds, covering a distance of 1.2 kilometres, reaching the top speed of 246 kilometres per hour. now, to prepare for the challenge, the pair carried out more than 200 practice jumps using two cranes to mimic the structure of the bridge, and the skydivers gave their reaction after landing safely earlier. i'm feeling good, i'm feeling really good. it was quite intense, i would say, but yeah, we were well prepared and i'm pretty happy now. yeah, everything worked out really good, so the last two years, we planned everything through, so from the beginning to the end, we had the best training, the best preparation, we did around 200 training jumpsjust for this project, so we were well prepared.

there we go, two very happy skydivers there after completing the first ever wing suit flight through the tower bridge in london. nerves of steel to get that sort of precision. a reminder of our lead story. president putin is removing russia's defence minister, sergei shoigu, from his post and replacing him with an economist, andrei belousov. mr shoigu will become secretary of russia's security council. a close ally of the president, mr shoigu has been defence ministerfor 12 years. the bbc�*s russia editor says the move is a demotion, stemming from the fact that moscow's invasion of ukraine has not gone to plan and is now in its third year. you can find more information about that story on our website as well. in the meantime, i'll be back shortly with the business today.

hello. there were definitely two sides to sunday's weather story. 0n the one hand, it was very warm. in fact, it looks like it was the warmest day of the year so far. temperatures touching 27 celsius to the west of london, but we saw some really intense downpours and thunderstorms breaking up, especially across western and northern parts of the uk, ushering in a change. low pressure taking charge of our weather through this week, which will bring rain at times, not least across the southwest of england, wales and northern ireland through monday. that rain arriving through the morning and then sticking in place right through into the afternoon. could be enough rain to give some localised flooding and travel disruption, — and under the cloud and rain not feeling particularly impressive — 15 or 16 degrees, but for a good part of scotland, central and eastern parts of england, we will hold on to some sunshine and some warmth, maybe 23 or 2a degrees. in fact, for some north sea coasts, it is likely to be warmer on monday afternoon than it was over the weekend. now, through monday nights, this band of rain will be moving slowly, northwards and eastwards on what will be

a very mild, even warm night, with temperatures holding up at between 9—11; degrees. so, we start tuesday with our area of low pressure still in place. this frontal system wraps around the low, continuing to drive some outbreaks of rain. this time, the rain bands sitting across the south east of england, east anglia, parts of the midlands, northern england, still some further rain to come across northern ireland, and then that rain pulling northwards across scotland. sunny spells and showers following on behind. temperatures broadly 17, 18 degrees, but still up to 20 in the north of scotland. those temperatures still a touch above the average for the time of year, just not as warm as it has been over the last few days. now, this is wednesday's forecast. still a weakening weather front likely to bring rain for a time in northern england. then it's a sunshine and showers day, and temperatures 17—20, maybe 21 degrees. now, our area of low pressure will still be with us through the second half

of the week, but it will tend to loosen its grip, the centre of the low, pulling away southward. so, while there will still be some showers, especially in southern parts, more in the way of dry weather, some spells of sunshine, actually will dry up for some of us as we head into the weekend. and those temperatures still a touch above normal for the time of year.

we're on inflation watch — the latest data suggest beijing's policies may be starting to boost consumer confidence in the world's second biggest economy. and... do you get al's help to write your resume? we ask an expert if that's a good idea. hello and welcome to business today. i'm steve lai. let's begin in china, where the latest data showed that inflation is starting to pick up. consumer prices rose for a third month in a row in april, which signals a comeback in demand. while much of the world has been battling the cost of living crisis, the world's second biggest economy fell into deflation last year, that means prices fell. beijing has announced measures to boost consumer confidence. over in the us, it's a very different story — all eyes are on the latest inflation figures out this week because if consumer

prices rise too quickly,