welcome to 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. the heat goes on: parts of europe are on alert this weekend with temperatures still on the rise. # be running up that road. # be running up that hill. and running up that hill, slowly: the pop single that's gone to number one 37 years after it was first released.

welcome to our viewers in the uk and around the globe. 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 not only failed to work but 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 and inexorable changes. it would be a mistake to think that during these tumultuous changes, you can simply sit it out, biding your time, that everything is going to get

back to circuits, that everything is going to be as it was — it won't! and yet, it seems as if the ruling elite of certain western countries are labouring under precisely these very delusions, choosing to ignore the obvious, persistently clinging to the ghosts of the past. in particular, they think that the domination of the west in global politics and economics is a constant but nothing is peremptory, 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, volodymr zelensky. mrjohnson said britain would support ukrainians until they prevailed. 0ur correspondent nick beake was there when borisjohnson arrived. well, the prime minister was certainly a long way away from some criticism he faced back home for missing a meeting of his own mps. here in kyiv, though, he was given an extremely warm welcome.

he was standing alongside president zelensky, who said the support he had shown — that britain had shown and borisjohnson had shown — was unparalleled. borisjohnson, of course, the leader who took his country out of the european union. volodymyr zelensky wants his country, ukraine, tojoin. and ukraine actually has got a big boost now with the european commission saying it approves the idea of ukraine starting on the very long path, probably, to full eu membership. of course, borisjohnson�*s visit comes just 2a hours after the leaders of france, germany, italy and romania were here on a similar sort of visit, and the ukrainians say that they're really grateful for this sort of show of strength, this support, the political strength it shows in the face of vladimir putin's aggression. but if you talk to them privately, they really stress that what they really want at this time, in their hour of need, as they describe it, are heavy weapons coming from the west.

they want them to come here much quicker because they remain in this really brutal battle with russia. 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 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 under fire, 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? where were you ? where were you? severodonetsk. ..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 sort 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 frontline 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 they're still not ruling out the involvement of other people. but the indigenous communities, univaja, they have refuted that, saying that — you know, 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 he — it was bruno that

got the death threats and shortly before they disappeared, dom was with bruno pereira, was accompanying him and there was — bruno received another death threat. he was loved by many people in 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. former us president donald trump has lashed out at the congressional committee investigating his role in the january the sixth 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 wimp. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a chance to be, frankly, historic. butjust like bill barr and the rest of these weak people, mike — and i say it sadly cos i like him — but mike did not have the courage to act. 0ur north america correspondent

peter bowes has the latest. this is donald trump doubling down on his view, not acknowledging any mistakes, specifically with mike pence. well, mike pence is a potential contender in a couple of years�* time — the next presidential election. he's certainly making the moves that are typical of a candidate who might announce, let's say, in a year's time — and as we all know, donald trump is also positioning himself once again to try to regain the presidency, so, perhaps he wants to put a little bit of a gap between him and mike pence in terms of their position on what happened after the 2020 election. but what donald trump certainly is not doing is acknowledging any mistakes and, of course, the big criticism that has come out of this committee in the last couple of days is that what he was asking mike pence to do, and that was not to certify the election, was quite simply illegal. 0ur our thanks to peter.

injapan, the supreme court has ruled that the government is not liable for the fukushima nuclear disaster that devastated the eastern coast of japan in 2011. it's the first ruling on the state's responsibility and several other lawsuits brought by residents are still pending. the bbc�*s azadeh moshiri reports. the fukushima the fu kushima tragedy the fukushima tragedy was the worst nuclear crisis since chernobyl. killing more than 18,000 people injapan and forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes, 11 years ago. one disaster had led to 0ne disaster had led to another. an earthquake off japan's eastern coast caused a massive tsunami which in turn triggered a meltdown at the fukushima nuclear plant. the victims have been demanding accountability ever since. arguing the government could have instructed the power plant to take better precautions. and now, japan's highest court has made a ruling many of them were dreading. it decided the government is not liable and

does not owe any compensation. translation: i does not owe any compensation. translation:— translation: i was so disappointed _ translation: i was so disappointed that - translation: i was so disappointed that i - translation: i was so disappointed that i lost| translation: l was so i disappointed that i lost all translation: l was so - disappointed that i lost all my strength. it's so frustrating that i don't want to talk. translation: i cannot go along with a _ translation: i cannot go along with a ruling that the government is not responsible for the — government is not responsible for the accident which caused such— for the accident which caused such terrible damage. it�*s for the accident which caused such terrible damage. it's the first time _ such terrible damage. it's the first time the _ such terrible damage. it's the first time the supreme - such terrible damage. it's the first time the supreme court | first time the supreme court has ruled on the state's responsibility. in four lawsuits filed by about 3700 fukushima residents. and it decided there was no way the government could have foreseen the risks and warned the plant operator to —— tokyo electric company. the ruling could affect about 30 other similar lawsuits. translation: i understand the supreme court ruled that what the government did was not illegal. the government will always stand by the people affected by the accident and do all it can to rebuild and revitalise fukushima, regardless. victims

did when one _ fukushima, regardless. victims did when one court _ fukushima, regardless. victims did when one court battle - - fukushima, regardless. victims did when one court battle - in l did when one court battle — in march, the supreme court upheld an orderfor tokyo march, the supreme court upheld an order for tokyo electric to pay more than $10 million in damages. but for those who have seen their lives and livelihoods upended, many of whom are still displaced, it simply is not enough. azadeh moshiri, bbc news. 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 and firefighters are 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 here in the uk, level 3

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 southeast. 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, right, and the weather is naturally quite variable. so it takes some unusual weather to generate a heatwave, 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 heatwaves 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, than 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. to music now, and a song that's number one in countries all over the world, 37 years after it was released. i'm talking about kate bush's running up that hill. # you and me... # if i only could, i'd make a deal with god # and i'd get him to swap our places # be running up that road, be running up that hill # be running up that

building...# in 1985 it made it just to number three here in the uk. so what's going on? well if you're a stranger things fan, it may sound familiar. # be running up that hill # be running up that building...# the song features as a recurring motif in the netflix sci—fi hit. it's obsessively played by max mayfield, as she struggles to come to terms with her brother's death. no surprises for guessing that this is behind the song's new lease of life. we can now speak to the music producer nick launay who early on in his career worked as an engineer on kate bush's album the dreaming. he has also produced albums for the likes of arcade fire and the yeah yeah yeahs. he joins us from port antonio injamaica. i want to talk about kate bush, even though you have had this illustrious career. i was pretty young when it was released, but it continues and

people love the dreaming. what was it like to work on that? it was it like to work on that? it was amazing, every day, i think i was only 20 years old at the time, and she was probably 21 or something like that, and every day was like entering this magical sort of fantasy world of hers. and she always had all these new ideas that she wanted to try on a song, and they were always, you know, it was always all about the mood and the feeling of things, and it was almost like doing theatre, you know, more than just music. so yeah, it was great. and i was a huge fan of hers as well, so it was incredible. i didn't find, it's incredible. ididn�*t find, it's funny, but i incredible. i didn't find, it's funny, but i wasn't starstruck by her, she is so friendly. and you know, just the imagination was just flowing like crazy. so yeah, it was great. it wasjust flowing like crazy. so yeah, it was great.— yeah, it was great. it is the thing about _ yeah, it was great. it is the thing about kate _ yeah, it was great. it is the thing about kate bush, -

yeah, it was great. it is the thing about kate bush, i i yeah, it was great. it is the - thing about kate bush, i think, is that she seems incredibly down—to—earth, even though she is iconic for so many people around the world. what do you think about this new burst of success that she is having with younger people? (inaudible)... sensor happened _ younger people? (inaudible)... sensor happened almost - younger people? (inaudible)... sensor happened almost every . sensor happened almost every decade. there is a new artist thatis decade. there is a new artist that is influenced and makes references to, but this is really great. i love stranger things, i am a huge fan of that programme as well, and i was actually watching it, and unaware this was going to happen, it came on and i thought itjust fits so well. and the story it tells is quite incredible as well. i don't know if people know the story behind the song, but i can elaborate if you like. please do! give us _ elaborate if you like. please do! give us a _ elaborate if you like. please do! give us a synopsis. - elaborate if you like. please do! give us a synopsis. you | do! give us a synopsis. you know, do! give us a synopsis. you know. my _ do! give us a synopsis. 7m. know, my understanding is that

it was originally called "a deal with god", but it couldn't be called that, and want to cause problems, so they went with running up that hill. but it is basically about the relationship between a man and a woman, and their incredible love for each other, but the sort of slight power struggle that happens in a relationship was confusing things, and causing perhaps insecurities and that, so it was all about them doing a deal with god, and swapping roles so the man becomes the woman and the woman becomes the woman and the woman becomes the woman and the woman becomes the man. so they could see, you know, how each other had to react to each other. and so it is an incredible thing, and by doing that their love would grow stronger, because they have a better understanding going forward. i don't know any other song like that, and i think that kind of

depth of writing is, you know, very inspirational, and it is very, it inspires a lot of new artists, itjust keeps artists, it just keeps happening, artists, itjust keeps happening, a lot of the female artist, i have worked with many, many female artist, and they are all influenced, and they are all influenced, and they all love kate bush. find they all love kate bush. and what is, the _ they all love kate bush. and what is, the fascinating story of running up that hill, i will never look at the video the same way again, but what is it do you think about kate bush thatis do you think about kate bush that is so inspirational to young female artists that you are working with? is there anything in particular order they different parts of her career? because she is such a complex artist. career? because she is such a complex artist-— complex artist. yes. i think there is _ complex artist. yes. i think there is many, _ complex artist. yes. i think there is many, many - complex artist. yes. i think. there is many, many aspects complex artist. yes. i think - there is many, many aspects to it. ithink there is many, many aspects to it. i think the obvious ones are that she writes all of her own songs, performs all her own songs, but later on, and this songs, but later on, and this songin songs, but later on, and this song in particular, and the

album that i was lucky enough to record with her, which was the dreaming, she produced that album and she produced every album and she produced every album from then on, including this song. and that is very rare that an artist produces themselves, let alone produces themselves, let alone produces themselves so well. so i think there is that, there is also there is that, there is also the fact that she started so, so young, i think she wrote wuthering heights when she was 15 or something crazy like that. �* , ,, 15 or something crazy like that- my - 15 or something crazy like - that.- my understanding that. laughs. my understanding is, it is insane, _ that. laughs. my understanding is, it is insane, i— that. laughs. my understanding is, it is insane, i don't— that. laughs. my understanding is, it is insane, i don't know- is, it is insane, i don't know the exact details about this but i think video was made a couple of years before it was released. and the record company and her parents i assume held back on it until she was i think 17, to let the song out. and of course, bang, it went, people just loved song out. and of course, bang, it went, peoplejust loved it and it went straight to number one. shejust is an incredible artist, she is one of the best,

she is up there with david bowie, kate bush! completely, i not luc bowie, kate bush! completely, i got lucky and — bowie, kate bush! completely, i got lucky and got _ bowie, kate bush! completely, i got lucky and got to _ bowie, kate bush! completely, i got lucky and got to see - bowie, kate bush! completely, i got lucky and got to see her - bowie, kate bush! completely, i got lucky and got to see her a i got lucky and got to see her a number of years ago when she was performing in london, but that was after such a long hiatus. what do you think about that aspect when it came to her career, isuppose that aspect when it came to her career, i suppose a lot of young people as well wouldn't have seen her touring or anything like that either, that she took that decision to just concentrate on record making and not to be gigging around the world for example. i and not to be gigging around the world for example. i think a lot of artists _ the world for example. i think a lot of artists wish _ the world for example. i think a lot of artists wish they - a lot of artists wish they could do that. i think touring after a while gets quite tedious and repetitive, and if you can keep a career going just by making records, then why not? again, she has approached everything in a very natural way, that she felt was right, and you know, ithink natural way, that she felt was right, and you know, i think it just got to that point where she really wanted to explore the recording studio even more,

and make these records that had this sort of unworldly life to them. and you know, she remained quite a recluse, i tried to get in touch with her actually many years ago, probably 25 years ago, and actually got through to her via writing a letter, and she wrote back which was really nice. but she kind of disappeared into a farm, she has a farm somewhere, or had a farm, and delta recording studio there, and her family, one of herfamily is paddy, a lot of them play on her records, and dell palmer was a great partner for her, for many years. i think they are still together, i don't know. but yeah, it is like she sort of left the city and went out into the countryside to

continue doing what she does, in privacy, and why not? why not, i am sure there is many records she has recorded that haven't come out yet, you know? hopefully we will hear them one day, but i actually want to wave hello to kate, because i haven't seen her in so many years. haven't seen her in so many ears. �* , ,, haven't seen her in so many years-- she - haven't seen her in so many years-- she is - haven't seen her in so many i years.- she is sorting, years. laughs. she is sorting, the memory — years. laughs. she is sorting, the memory working _ years. laughs. she is sorting, the memory working with - years. laughs. she is sorting, the memory working with her. the memory working with her stay with me incredibly strongly through the years, she is so unique. i strongly through the years, she is so unique-— is so unique. i hope she is up, it is 3:25am — is so unique. i hope she is up, it is 3:25am here _ is so unique. i hope she is up, it is 3:25am here in _ is so unique. i hope she is up, it is 3:25am here in the - is so unique. i hope she is up, it is 3:25am here in the uk. i it is 3:25am here in the uk. you never know, you never know! she may be somewhat nocturnal. next, thank you for spending time with us. 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. i will leave you with that note as we talk about kate bush. 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.