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. the heat goes on — parts of europe are on alert this weekend with temperatures still on the rise. and running up that hill — slowly. the pop single that's a global number one 37 years after it

was first released. hello and welcome to bbc news. president putin has described the sanctions imposed on russia because of its invasion of ukraine as insane. he said the measures had failed to work, and were impacting the west instead. the british prime minister has announced that the uk will lead a major training operation for ukrainian soldiers with the aim of training up to ten thousand soldiers every four months. and the question of ukraine's candidacy for the eu is expected to be decided at a european council summit next week. azadeh moshiri has this report.

the president told his people there was some good news. translation:— there was some good news. translation: now we are one ste awa translation: now we are one step away from _ translation: now we are one step away from the _ translation: now we are one step away from the beginning l translation: now we are one | step away from the beginning of a full—fledged integration into the european union. we have a positive decision from the european commission on ukraine's candidacy. this is an historical achievement for all who work for our state. though eu leaders _ who work for our state. though eu leaders have _ who work for our state. though eu leaders have warned - who work for our state. though eu leaders have warned it - who work for our state. though | eu leaders have warned it could be years if not decades until ukraine canjoin the be years if not decades until ukraine can join the bloc. another european commission has backed its candidacy, it could join the list of countries as early as next week should all member countries agree. and amidst the good news, ukraine was shown more support by a welcome visitor. living the turmoil of domestic politics behind, british prime minister borisjohnson made a surprise trip to kyiv. it was a second time in the ukrainian capital since the war began and he

announced a major training programme for ukrainian troops. he laid out a plan to train up to 10,000 ukrainian soldiers every four months. to10,000 ukrainian soldiers every four months.— to 10,000 ukrainian soldiers every four months. where he once again — every four months. where he once again to _ every four months. where he once again to underline - every four months. where he once again to underline thatl every four months. where he l once again to underline that we are with you to give you the strategic endurance. ——we are here once again. that you will need. and we will continue to help intensify the sanctions on vladimir putin's regime. meanwhile the man who launched the walk called these sanctions insane. speaking at an economic conference in st petersburg, he argued the west had only managed to hurt itself. translation: managed to hurt itself. tuna/mom- managed to hurt itself. translation: . ., ., , translation: our colleagues in the west do _ translation: our colleagues in the west do not _ translation: our colleagues in the west do notjust _ translation: our colleagues in the west do notjust deny - the west do notjust deny reality, they are trying to fight the course of history. they think in terms of the last century. they are captives of their own delusion. but despite their own delusion. but despite the show are — their own delusion. but despite the show are public _ their own delusion. but despite the show are public support - their own delusion. but despite the show are public support for| the show are public support for ukraine, leading to its victory at the eurovision song contest, organisers have ruled out its

chances to hold the next event due to the wall, opening up the chance to others like runner—up united kingdom to bed instead. ukraine says its land will be safe for all those who visit next year. 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. our 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. the british home secretary priti patel has signed an order to extradite the wikileaks founder julian assange to the united states. 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, first off, which has already seen its hottest may since the beginning of this century. it 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 risks there of wildfires as well. 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. but it's notjust europe. also in the united states — let's take a look — around 120 million people are under some sort of advisory as a heatwave 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. well, 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's just to illustrate the impact of global warming, and similar numbers for the 2018 summer heatwave we had in the uk. so, yes, so we can very clearly say that climate change is just amplifying the effect of this weather pattern and this heatwave. let's turn to japan. the supreme court there 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 fukushima disater was the worst nuclear accident since chernobyl. more than 18,000 died and thousands were forced from their homes. an earthquake of japan's eastern coast triggered a meltdown at the fukushima nuclear plant. victims have been demanding accountability cents, arguing the government could have asked the powerplant to take better precautions. now japan's highest court has made a ruling. many of them were dreading it. they 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 is so frustrating that i don't want to talk. translation: i that i don't want to talk. translation:— that i don't want to talk. translation: �* ., ., ., translation: i can't go along with the ruling _ translation: i can't go along with the ruling that _ translation: i can't go along with the ruling that the - with the 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. is for the accident which caused such terrible damage.- such terrible damage. is the first ruling — such terrible damage. is the first ruling in _ such terrible damage. is the first ruling in a _ such terrible damage. is the first ruling in a series - such terrible damage. is the first ruling in a series of - first ruling in a series of lawsuits filed by about 3700 fukushima residents. the court decided there was nowhere the government could have foreseen the risks and warned the operator, tokyo electric power company. the ruling could affect around 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. trackback victims did win one court battle. in trackback victims did win one court battle.— court battle. in much the snoreme _ court battle. in much the supreme court _ court battle. in much the supreme court upheld i court battle. in much thej supreme court upheld an court battle. in much the - supreme court upheld an order for tokyo electric to pay more than $10 million in damages. but for those whose lives have been upended, and those who are still displaced, it simply isn't enough. gail mclennan, bbc news.

this is bbc news. the headlines: 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. 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. our 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? 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's 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 frontline 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. 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. our 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. our thanks to peter. 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.

our international business correspondent theo leggett is at gatwick airport. well, you have to remember what the airline industry has been going through over the past couple of years, since the start of the covid pandemic. for a long period, there were virtually no flights operating, certainly in europe, as countries went into lockdown. now, that put operators under an enormous amount of cost pressure. here in the uk, for example, there was a period when planes were — only a limited service was able to operate, but at the same time, the government's safety measures, paying furlough 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's notjust a question in this country or in other countries ofjust 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's huge amounts of demand, people want to travel, people want to go on holiday — but the problem is within the airports, the ground 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 at 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 we are cutting services now, because the gamble that companies like gatwick airport 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.

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. 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. well, earlier, ispoke to stranger things music supervisor nora felder, whose decision it was to contact kate bush and use her song. i asked why she felt the song resonated so strongly

with people. how it came about was in the early stages, pre—pandemic, when the duffers were writing the scripts for the shows. they knew they wanted a song that would represent max and would be playing through some of the episodes, and in the script, it was marked as �*tbd max song! so, they reached out and they said, "we're "brainstorming, and we really need to find that key song "that ties the stories together, "ties everything together, that really represents "max". the song needed to be something that identified with her, identified with what she was going through. so, i presented it to the duffer brothers and they loved it, they were like, "that's it! "it's the song!" so, our next step was then, "ok, now that we know "the perfect song, we have to clear it". before i had sent it, i had checked out

with her people, because i've never cleared that song before, and they said she's very picky but she's very open. so, what we had to do is i had to submit scene descriptions and really work them out, and explain to her how they were used and the context of the scenes, without her knowing the whole story, but the context of how they were being used, so that she would feel co mforta ble. so, it ended up, the word i got back was that, a, she was a huge stranger things fan and, b, she got it, she completely got it. i love finding those songs that i feel like they cross generations, whether it be the message, the style of the music, and i always say if you listen to this song and heard it today for the first time on the radio, or wherever you're listening, that you wouldn't even know that it was a song from, what, a0 years ago. you wouldn't even know, and i think that is also why it's resonating with the kids because it sounds like something that could have been created now, it really does. thanks so much to nora felder there. 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, officials in ukraine — including the national broadcaster — have condemned the decision. in a statement posted on twitter, the ukrainian culture minister said: he went on to say: the french film and stage legend jean—louis trintignant has died at the age of 91. during a career spanning more than half a century, he starred in many classic films and worked with most of europe's great directors. the bbc�*s tim allman looks back

at his life and career. speaks french. non. it's 1956, and the whole world has fallen hopelessly in love with brigitte bardot. chief among her admirers, co—starjean—louis trintignant, the very epitome of vulnerability and desire. speaks french. a gifted and versatile actor, this is him more than 50 years later in amore, a harrowing story of marital love and impending death — an award—winning film and a special role, as the man himself realised. speaks french. translation: i think i'm better at theatre because i've never - seen myself, whereas in

film, you see yourself. this is perhaps the first time — and i have been in more than 100 films — but this is perhaps the first time i've been glad to see myself. jean—louis trintignant was born in southern france in 1930. he lived through the trauma of the second world war and was later a young conscript in algeria. away from acting, he was passionate about motor racing. speaks french. but it was the stage where he felt most at home. jean—louis trintignant was a shy man but he was never afraid to reveal himself. he has been described as one of the most talented and important french actors of the last 60 years. tim allman, bbc news. the french actor jean—louis trintignant, who's died at the age of 91. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @bbcnuala. i would love to hear from you.

thank you very much for watching us here 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, 44 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 or 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 to 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, mostly just 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 1a to 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 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. 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