this is bbc news. i'm nuala mcgovern. our top stories: russia strikes a defiant note — president putin accuses western powers of provoking humanitarian catastrophes around the world. on a surprise visit to kyiv, britain's borisjohnson announces a military training programme that he says could change the war. police in brazil have confirmed one of the two bodies found in the remote amazon rainforest is that of the missing british journalist, dom phillips. queues, caps and cancelled flights — we'll look at some of the problems facing passengers during the peak summer period. and, who will be the next host of eurovision? the uk's in talks over the singing spectacular but ukraine plans to appeal.

hello and welcome to bbc news. the russian president says the sanctions imposed on his country because of the attack on ukraine are stupid and insane. vladimir putin said they had failed to work and said they were impacting the west instead. he denied that russia was to blame for the current crisis and for the spiralling inflation that has followed. he was speaking at an economic forum in st petersburg. translation: i reiterate, these are fundamental, truly revolutionary changes and it would be a mistake to think during these tumultuous tranch you can simply sit it out, that everything is going to get back to the way it was and yet it

seems like the ruling elite of certain western countries are labouring under these precise delusions, choosing to accept the obvious. particular, they think the domination of western politics and economics is a constant but nothing is eternal. the british prime minister has announced that the uk will lead a major training programme for ukrainian troops, with the aim of training up to 10,000 soldiers every four months. borisjohnson was speaking during a surprise visit to kyiv where he held talks with ukraine's president, volodymyr zelensky. mrjohnson said britain would support ukrainians until they prevailed. 0ur correspondent nick beake was there when borisjohnson arrived. the prime minister was a long way away for some criticism he faced back home from missing a meeting with his own mps. here in kyiv he was given a warm

welcome, standing beside the president zelensky saying that the support written and boris johnson had shown was unparalleled. borisjohnson was a leader who took his country out of the european union. volodymyr zelensky once his country, ukraine tojoin volodymyr zelensky once his country, ukraine to join and ukraine now has a big burst with the european commission sakeit with the european commission sake it approves the idea of ukraine starting on the very long path, probably, to full eu membership. borisjohnson comes membership. boris johnson comes to membership. borisjohnson comes to 24 membership. borisjohnson comes to 2a hours after the leaders of france, germany, italy and rumania were here on a similar visit and the ukrainians say they are grateful for this show of strength and support, the political strength it shows in the face of b putin's aggression. but they really stress when talking to them privately, in the hour of need, art heavy weapons coming from the west. they remain in this

really brutal battle with russia. —— vladimir putin. the european commission has recommended that ukraine be given official candidate status in its application to join the eu, with the body's head saying because ukrainians had shown themselves ready to die for europe, she wanted to see them live the european dream. president volodymyr zelensky welcomed the move. president putin said he was not against the idea because the eu wasn't a military bloc but couldn't see how it would benefit kyiv. here is commission president ursula von der leyen speaking in brussels. and we all know that ukrainians are ready to die for the european perspective. we want them to live with us the european dream. heavy fighting is continuing in the east of ukraine, and the war is taking a terrible toll. hundreds of ukrainian troops and civilians are being killed or injured every day, mainly as a result of russian shelling. ukraine's medical services are under enormous pressure and one british surgeon,

david nott, who has decades of experience treating war injuries, has been on the frontline, helping to train ukrainian doctors. 0ur correspondent wyre davies has sent this report. the other thing to do is to look at the light, look up here. at a hospital in eastern ukraine, well within range of russian rockets, british surgeon david nott calmly carries out a complicated skin graft, saving the leg of a woman who suffered catastrophic injuries in a russian shelling. now we need to bandage... but such difficult surgery is beyond many less experienced doctors. patients were put in the posterolateral position and the chest opened. so this was the wrong treatment. nott has been in ukraine not just operating, but passing on his depth of knowledge and experience. and you would cut it in a longitudinal axis... his foundation runs courses in war zones from syria to yemen to south sudan, and now the war in ukraine. i know what it's like to be underfire,

i know what it's like to be in an operating theatre which is being shelled. you are trying to do your best to try and save the life of the patient in front of you but here, what we can do here is we can train, i think we've trained 70 surgeons in six days and they have seen exactly what to do. some of those here are front line doctors. where was this? momentarily back from the fighting where ukraine is losing too many soldiers. others are civilian medics learning new skills because their hospitals are full of people with new kinds of injuries. it's a horrible situation when you see the young guys with mangled extremities, with shrapnel wounds, with amputation. it's just disaster. the big draw might be david nott, but the star of the show is heston, a lifelike medical dummy with 50 separate surgical procedures replicating complicated war wounds.

costing tens of thousands of pounds, it is unique, part of a system that allows nott and his team to teach life—saving skills. travelling across ukraine, it is tiring work for these veteran war surgeons. their last destination — the front line city of kharkiv, battered by russian shelling, with thousands of casualties being treated by overstretched local doctors. i wanted to bring the teaching to them, i wanted them to really understand why you should do these sorts of operations, how you can do them and if you do them properly, you will get a good result. most rewarding for dr nott, medics here putting complex techniques learned on his course into practice. now you do it. in this case, david handing control of a limb—saving operation to the ukrainian surgeon. it might be more front of class than front line these days for david nott, but it's the quickest way of passing

on his breadth of skills to surgeons here who need them most. wyre davies, bbc news, kharkiv. police in brazil have confirmed that one of the two bodies found in the remote amazon rainforest is that of the missing british journalist, dom phillips. a second body, believed to be that of indigenous expert, bruno pereira, is still under analysis. two suspects have been arrested for the murder, but police believe more people were involved. 0ur correspondent, katy watson, has been in the amazon region following the case. she gave us the latest. according to the police, through forensic dentistry, they identified the remains of dom phillips. as you mentioned, there, they still have not identified the remains of bruno pereira. they are still waiting to find the location of the boat, bruno pereira's boat, that was sunk by the suspect. despite having co—ordinates for it, they have still failed to locate it. the police have also said, they do not believe there was any higher organisation, criminal organisation, involved in this and that

the men acted alone in terms of kind of criminal organisations but still are not ruling out the involvement of other people. but the indigenous communities, univaja, they have refuted that saying that — they have refuted this idea that perhaps there was no criminal organisation behind it and they are calling for more investigations. bruno pereira was very known in the area. he worked with the indigenous communities. it was bruno that got the death threats and shortly before they disappeared, dom was with bruno pereira, was accompanying him and bruno received another death threat. he was loved by many people into the community but, of course, his wanting to protect the indigenous communities, wanting to make sure that they had their land protected, that did make him enemies. but these two, both dom and bruno, knew the terrain very well. they were not novices, they were an experienced journalist and an expert so the two men knew what they were doing,

they knew the area. bruno most of all. the police said in the press conference a couple of days ago that the motive is under investigation and therefore cannot be made public but that is still ongoing. that is something that they are still going to be investigating, and especially looking at the forensic analysis of the remains that were found. and this is a process that could go on. certainly, they are still out searching for the boat, for example. you know, there was still a concrete piece of evidence they were trying to locate and then, of course, it turns to the suspects and then the trial for those two men as well potentially more people they might arrest going forward. katy watson there. former us president donald trump has lashed out at the congressional committee investigating his role in the january 6 attack of the capitol in 2021. speaking at a republican event in the state of tennessee, he criticised his former vice president, saying mike pence

lacked what he called the "courage" for refusing to carry out a plan to overturn the 2020 election results. but i never called mike pence a wimp. i never called him a win. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a chance to be, frankly, historic, butjust frankly, historic, but just like frankly, historic, butjust like bill barr and the rest of these weak people, mike, and i say it sadly because i like him, but mike did not have the courage to act. i'm joined now by our north america correspondent, peter bowes. that is just a little for our viewers of what was said. singling out mike pence yet again. took us through a little bit more about what he said and also the tone in which he said it? ., a“ , it? the tone, exactly, i think this is typical _ it? the tone, exactly, i think this is typical donald - it? the tone, exactly, i think this is typical donald trump. | this is typical donald trump. you hit him hard and comes back even harder, criticising, as he

has several times before, the work of this committee, describing it as a witch—hunt, saying he they were spinning fake and phony narrative, a chilling attempt to weaponised the justice system is against political opponents. perhaps this is a preview of what is to come over the next few months, with the mid—term elections here in november and perhaps the line donald trump and some of his supporters are going to take, it talked about the greatest danger to america big the destruction of the nation from within, something he described as left—wing fashion, of course a term normally associated with the far—right and dictatorship, but this is the line he is taking, choosing to focus in on mostly democrats who were running this committee.— who were running this committee. ~ ., , committee. with the hearings, i wonder, committee. with the hearings, i wonder. do _ committee. with the hearings, i wonder. do we _ committee. with the hearings, i wonder, do we know _ committee. with the hearings, i wonder, do we know if - committee. with the hearings, i wonder, do we know if watching| wonder, do we know if watching them or not? we did think fox

was not going to carry them but they have been over the past afternoon?— afternoon? yes, they have carried some _ afternoon? yes, they have carried some of _ afternoon? yes, they have carried some of the - afternoon? yes, they have i carried some of the hearings. donald trump has described these hearings that it is obvious he has watched them or seeing some of them — he has described them as a theatrical production. it criticised the fact that hours and hours of the position had been taken yet committee members are choosing just to use just a few very short soundbites to get their message across, in the view of donald trump perhaps distorting the message. we also focused in on the ratings, as he does, saying they were terrible ratings. that may not necessarily be true, some 20 million americans watched the first day of the hearings, the others the audience were bound to be much lower.— to be much lower. putting it in the larger _ to be much lower. putting it in the larger context, _ to be much lower. putting it in the larger context, coming - to be much lower. putting it in. the larger context, coming back to mike pence, we know how much anger was direct towards mike

pence by the mob that stormed the capitol and we know that a lot that was said was untrue and yet this continues to be aired, to be out there, donald trump continues to speak in this vein and ijust trump continues to speak in this vein and i just wonder whether we go from here and is it possible to know? i whether we go from here and is it possible to know?— it possible to know? i think, auain, it possible to know? i think, again. this _ it possible to know? i think, again, this is _ it possible to know? i think, again, this is what - it possible to know? i think, again, this is what we - it possible to know? i think, | again, this is what we expect from donald trump, that he would repeat something over and over again, would repeat something over and overagain, perhaps would repeat something over and over again, perhaps you would repeat something over and overagain, perhaps you might say the majority of legal pundits might say it is simply wrong, and here for example the power of mike pence not to certify the results of the election and donald trump is sticking to his story that mike pence could have stepped in and essentially reversed the result of the election. certainly, there is a majority into this country that believe that is simply not the case but it is also to be said that there are

many who still support donald trump and support him strongly and that is the audience that the former president is currently playing too, especially in the way that he is leading his support to... inaudible. i is leading his support to... inaudible.— is leading his support to... inaudible. ., , �*, inaudible. i am sorry, peter's line hasjust gone _ inaudible. i am sorry, peter's line hasjust gone down. - inaudible. i am sorry, peter's line hasjust gone down. we i line hasjust gone down. we were getting that context dropping that this is what is expected during the mid— times in november. a lot of the rhetoric leading up to that. london gatwick, britain's second busiest airport, says it will limit the number of flights across the peak summer period because of staff shortages. usually 900 flights run a day, but only 825 services will run injuly, and 850 in august. it follow similar moves by amsterdam's schiphol, which is limiting the number of travellers this summer because of huge queues there. and in the us, major airlines announced they were cutting their summer schedule. 0ur international business correspondent theo leggett is at gatwick airport.

you have to remember what the airline industry has been you have to remember what the airline industry has been going through over the past few years, since the start of the covid pandemic. fora years, since the start of the covid pandemic. for a long period they were virtually no flights operating, certainly in europe, as countries went into lockdown. that put operators under an enormous amount of cost pressure. here in the uk for example there was a period where planes were, only a limited service was able to operate, but at the same time the government's safety measures, paying fellow payments to different companies so they could keep their staff on, had come to an end. so a number of companies decided they were going to lay off staff and now they are recruiting them back because the industry is recovering, but they can't recruit people back quickly enough. and it is not just a question in this country or other countries i'm just going out and getting people and giving them a job and starting to pay them. if you work in the aviation industry you need things like security clearances, and those tend to take time. so the industry is trying to ramp up services,

there is huge amounts of demand, people want to travel, people want to go on holiday. but the problem is within their airports, the handling services, so for example baggage handling, check—in staff, people to refuel the planes, they are not there— or at least not in sufficient numbers. and that means we are starting to see extensive delays in airports, people having to queue for long periods of time, and flights having to be cancelled. so what we are seeing here at gatwick today and that schiphol is an attempt to pre—empt that happening over the summer. july and august in europe are the peak months, and that is why they are cutting services now, because the gamble that companies like gatwick airport are making is that you can take are making is that you can take a bit of pain now, and it saves potential chaos occurring later in the year. so that is what they are trying to do, minimise disruption by taking a hit now, but preventing lots and lots of short—term cancellations when people are trying to get away on holiday. the british home secretary priti patel has signed an order

to extradite the wikileaks founderjulian assange to the us. the australian is being held in a london prison on espionage charges. wikileaks called the decision a "dark day" for press freedom and mr assange's wife said she would fight it to the end. we're not at the end of the road here. we're going to fight this. we're going to use every appeal avenue, and we're going to fight. i'm going to spend every waking hourfighting forjulian until he's free, untiljustice... ..is served. parts of europe are on heatwave alert this weekend, with temperatures on the rise — it's so hot in some areas that conditions are dangerous to health. spain, which has already seen its hottest may since the beginning of this century, is sweltering under temperatures reaching as high as 43 degrees celsius. wildfires were also reported — firefighters in several regions, including woodlands in catalonia. france is seeing its earliest ever hot spell according to forecasters, exacerbating a drought and raising the risk

of wildfires. and in the uk, level three heat warnings have been issued for parts of southern england, on what is officially the hottest day of the year. it's notjust europe — in the united states, around 120 million people are under some sort of advisory as a heat wave scorches the upper midwest and the south—east. dr paulo ceppi is a climate scientist at the grantham institute at imperial college london. he explained why we are experiencing more heatwaves. first of all, every heatwave is like a weather event, and the weather is naturally quite variable. so it takes some unusual weather to generate a heat wave pulls up like for example for the current heatwave in western europe we have unusual winds that are bringing very hot air from north africa, from the sahara, into the western european region and that is leading to the very hot temperatures. but then of course as you said there is also the climate change factor, and we know very well now, the science is very established, that global warming is really making every

heatwave more severe, and also making more frequent. so to put some numbers on this for example, very recently we had a heatwave in india and pakistan over the spring, and that heatwave, it was found, was made about 30 times more likely because of global warming, then in the previous climate, so thatis in the previous climate, so that is just to illustrate the impact of global warming, and similar numbers for the 2018 summer heatwave we had in the uk. so yes, we can very clearly say that climate change is just amplifying the effects of this weather pattern and this heatwave. ministers at the first world trade organisation conference in five years have reached limited agreements on areas including the patents behind covid—19 vaccines, subsidies forfishing, tariffs on e—commerce and exemptions on some food export controls for humanitarian purposes. it was a rare triumph for the body which sets the rules for global trade, and came after talks continued for 36 hours past our global trade correspondent

dharshini david asked the director general of the world trade organisation, dr ngozi 0konjo—iweala, for her reaction to the outcome. i always thought maybe we could get one or two deliverables, out of the five or six we had on for the conference. and we got six out of seven. that's not bad. we did something for people, for business, we did something that matters for the world's sustainability. how much more could you ask them out? ., . , . much more could you ask them out? ., ., , ., ., much more could you ask them out? ., ., ., ., .«r out? you always have to make compromises. _ out? you always have to make compromises, don't _ out? you always have to make compromises, don't you, - out? you always have to make | compromises, don't you, when you make these kind of agreements with over 160 countries, so what would you say to those who say the impact of what has been agreed may not be that meaningful for particularly the poorest and most vulnerable on the planet? the nature of our organisation is that you have to compromise. the issue is, does the

compromise matterfor the issue is, does the compromise matter for the people. even if it is not what you wanted, the answer is yes. we have manufacturers who are in developing countries who are coming up who would like to have access to patents. it will be wonderful if we got it completely waved, but we have access for a certain number of years and i think that is a good beginning. so i would disagree actually. it good beginning. so i would disagree actually.— good beginning. so i would disagree actually. it has been repeatedly — disagree actually. it has been repeatedly said _ disagree actually. it has been repeatedly said in _ disagree actually. it has been repeatedly said in geneva - disagree actually. it has been| repeatedly said in geneva that is india that was the stumbling block. what degree is that true, and how did you get around it?— true, and how did you get around it? �* , ,, ., , ., around it? laughs. india is a member so — around it? laughs. india is a member so i— around it? laughs. india is a member so i am _ around it? laughs. india is a member so i am not - around it? laughs. india is a member so i am not going i around it? laughs. india is a member so i am not going to | around it? laughs. india is a i member so i am not going to be naming any names. there were some stumbling blocks along the way. if you look at my opening speech i said there were landmines along the way, and there were, they were stumbling blocks and hand grenades thrown

in. sometimes it felt like that. there were different stumbling blocks, but at the end of the day, you know, india has a charming, vigorous minister of trade, and we get along very well, see were able to sit down with him and other ministers. having meeting after meeting doesn't result in deliverables. so those conversations were had with groups of ministers, and yes, it was rough, but we were able to navigate around some of the obstacles. ngozi 0konjo—iweala there. the singer kate bush has reached number one in the uk singles chart with her song, running up that hill — 37 years after she first released it. # be running up that road, be running up that hill # be running up that building...#

the song has stormed to the top of the british music charts after it featured in the netflix hit tv series stranger things, introducing kate bush's music to a whole new generation of fans. we will have more on that in the next hour. the eurovision song contest could be held in the uk next year, after organisers confirmed that they are in talks with the bbc about hosting the 2023 song contest. ukraine won this year's competition, and would normally host the following year — but they've been ruled out as hosts because of the ongoing war with russia, and have condemned the decision. because the uk's sam ryder came second this year, the european broadcasting union are now hoping the uk can stage it instead. it would be the ninth time eurovision has organised in britain. however, ukraine's broadcaster condemned the decision. however, ukraine's broadcaster in a statement posted on twitter,

the ukrainian culture minister 0leksandr tkachenko said that the country will demand a reversal in the decision. he said ukraine would be able to fulfil all of the commitments for the 2023 contest, and assured that his government could provide answers and guarantees on safety standards for the event. before we go, here's a view that could take your breath away. it's a new suspension bridge in georgia that has opened nearly 800 feet above a canyon and river below. but it's the diamond—type structure in the middle of the bridge that officials hope will draw the tourists. it doubles as a viewing platform. and if that is still not enough of a thrill, there's a bicycle zipline that runs parallel to the bridge — just don't look down! you can follow me on

twitter at @bbcnuala. stay with us on bbc news. hello there. friday brought the peak of the heat that's been building over the last few days. the highest temperatures we saw across the uk were very close to 33 degrees — but look at these temperatures on friday across the south of spain, the south of france, 43—41; degrees. 35 was the top temperature in paris. that heat being scooped northwards into parts of england, wales and indeed the channel islands. in fact, jersey had its hottest june day on record. 33 degrees or very close to it across parts of east anglia, through the london area as well. whereas further north and west, with these westerly winds, we had some cooler conditions. temperatures in western scotland, for example, no higher than 16 degrees. and more and more of us are going to get into those cooler conditions as we

head through saturday. we've got this frontal system pushing southwards, a cold front, introducing that cooler air. so, these are the temperatures as we start saturday morning. 9—10 degrees for scotland, northern ireland, the far north of england. whereas further south, we're still in the grip of those warm, even hot conditions. 18 to start the morning in london. and across this south—east corner, where we see spells of sunshine, it will be another hot day. across parts of the west country, wales, the midlands, east anglia, we'll see cloud bringing outbreaks of heavy, potentially thundery rain at times. to the north of that, some spells of sunshine. showers into north—west scotland, maybe the odd one for northern ireland. temperatures for most of us 15—16, maybe up to 18 degrees. whereas down towards the south, highs of 27—29 once again. and with that heat, well, we could see the odd thunderstorm popping up across the south—east of england as we go on into the evening, and then through the early hours of sunday, we see this heavy rain still swarming across the channel islands and the south—west of england. and again, that could produce some thunder and lightning into sunday morning.

so, there certainly will be some thunderstorms rumbling around, mostlyjust to the south of us on sunday. some could just clip into southern england, but for most of us, sunday is a mainly fine day, some spells of sunshine, some areas of patchy cloud, just the odd shower in the north. but with these northerly winds, we're cutting off the supply of heat from the continent, so temperatures by this stage 14—19 degrees. it will feel significantly cooler. now, for some, those temperatures will climb again as we head through next week. a bit of rain at times, decent amount of sunshine, but it certainly won't be as hot as it has been.

this is bbc news. the headlines: in a speech to an economic forum in st petersburg, president putin described the sanctions imposed on russia as stupid and insane. he said the measures had failed to work and were impacting the west instead. he denied that russia was to blame for the current crisis. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, has paid a surprise second visit to kyiv, to offer president zelensky a major training programme for ukrainian forces. mrjohnson pledged a uk—led operation to train up to 10,000 soldiers every four months and to supply extra equipment. brazilian police say they've confirmed from dental records the remains of one of the two bodies found in the remote amazon rainforest is that of missing british journalist, dom phillips. a second body, believed to be

that of indigenous expert, bruno pereira, is still under analysis.