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hello and welcome to bbc news. i'm rich preston. the mayor of kyiv, vitali klitschko, has told the bbc his country will only enter peace talks after the "last russian soldier has left ukraine". some ukrainian officials have expressed concerns their country may be pushed towards a peace deal with russia, as the war continues to put pressure on food and energy supplies. our correspondent nick beake reports from kyiv. singing the russians killed roman ratushny on the ninth ofjune. today, his father buried him, before returning to the front line.
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a funeral for a 24—year—old who answered the call to defend his country. his grandmother, joined by hundreds who came to bid him farewell. with so many young lives being lost every day, some now ask whether ukraine should make concessions to moscow. kyiv�*s mayor and former heavyweight boxing champion says it must not happen. we will be ready to talk with russians about some compromises if the last russian soldier left ukraine. this would be the time to talk, but not yet. russians have to go, go from our homeland. the coffin was brought to independence square, where they remembered the young democracy activist. a scene of public grief in an embattled and bereaved
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country. they may not all be on this scale but funerals are taking place across ukraine. we know that many russian soldiers are dying too. young lives continue to be lost in this war that vladimir putin started. it is a big tragedy for russians, for the russian federation. people do not understand that right now, but i want to make sure they realise very soon the reality. also, the russians die. for what? the ambition of putin? roman ratushny�*s mother will not be the last mother to grieve, neither here in ukraine nor in russia, in this war of mounting pain. nick beake, bbc news in kyiv.
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the islamic state group say they carried out saturday's deadly attack on the last sikh temple in the afghan capital, kabul. at least three people were killed by militants who threw hand grenades at the building and detonated a car bomb. our correspondent secunder kermani sent this report. the attack here began at around 6:30 this morning. if you see those big, grey metal doors covered in shrapnel marks, that is the main entrance to the gurdwara, the sikh temple, and that's where this attack began with a number of assailants firing and using hand grenades to overpower a security guard and then get inside. now, there's also a number of taliban checkposts around here, and so members of the taliban who were stationed here immediately engaged the attackers in a firefight. and at some point a car that was parked around here, in which a bomb had been planted,
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that exploded, killing the commander of this taliban check post and causing all the damage that you see to these shops, many of which were owned by members of the sikh community, too. the fighting here lasted for around three hours, and you get a sense ofjust how intense it must have been from the state of this room. this was the main prayer hall, and it's been left completely devastated. once upon a time, there were thousands, tens of thousands of sikhs living here in afghanistan. over the years of the conflict, that number dwindled and dwindled. there's been a spate of attacks carried out by the local branch of the islamic state group. one on another gurdwara two years ago in which around 25 people were killed, another attack in the eastern city ofjalalabad back in 2018. this was their last functioning gurdwara. now it's been attacked, too.
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there's only around 150 sikhs living in this country any more and the ones that we've been speaking to say they don't feel safe here any more — they want to leave. they're appealing to the indian government to help get them out. secunder kermani reporting. the prime minister has defended a i2—month trial in which some asylum seekers who arrive in the uk in small boats or on the back of lorries could be electronically tagged. borisjohnson said it was important to "make sure asylum seekers can't just vanish into the rest of the country." critics say the plan treats those fleeing persecution as criminals. our political correspondent damian grammaticas reports. after the plane, chartered at a cost of several hundred thousand pounds to take asylum seekers to rwanda could not leave this week, the legality of the government's policy
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of deporting those seeking protection here must now be decided by british courts. so, in the meantime, some of those who were due to be on board may be part of this trial and be electronically tagged while their cases are decided. when people come here illegally, and when they break the law, it's important that we make that distinction. that's what we're doing with our rwanda policy, that's what we are doing with making sure that asylum seekers can't just vanish into the rest of the country. it's not illegal to seek asylum, but the government is under pressure to stop the channel crossings and tagging rather than detaining some whose immigration cases are being decided has been possible for several years. i think that the government is chasing headlines. what i want is a serious response — a serious response, because nobody wants these journeys across the channel to be made, these perilous journeys. everybody wants to clamp down on the gangs. that requires grown—up work with the french authorities and upstream work to actually tackle these gangs. you don't do that if you're a government that is asking the national crime
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agency to make cuts. the home office says it could be used in cases where there may be an increased risk of absconding and less incentive to comply with any conditions of immigration bail. i do think it's a sensible plan to try this so we can keep tabs on people who are eligible for removal in order to deliver the government's required objective. tagging and monitoring is used for people subject to court or prison orders. those who work with refugees say extending it to them is cruel and amounts to treating those who come seeking a welcome as criminals. actually, this is a diversion tactic from the government's complete failure to run the asylum system in an orderly fashion. at the moment, we have utter chaos. we have over 100,000 people in the asylum system, waiting for a decision. so, refugee groups say in the face of the huge issues with the asylum system, tagging is a gimmick and no
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other western nation does it. the numbers involved in the trial is likely to be small. damian grammaticas, bbc news. police in brazil have arrested a third suspect following the murder of a british journalist and an indigenous expert in the amazon. members of indigenous tribes have joined protesters in sao paulo demanding justice for the killings. the remains of the guardian journalist dom phillips have been identified from dental records. a second body, believed to be that of the brazilian bruno pereira, is being analysed. police sayjeferson da silva lima had been on the run before he gave himself up. he's denied involvement. the duke of cambridge has released a heart—warming father's day family photograph. prince william is pictured laughing with his children during a family holiday, with his arms around prince george, who's eight, and 7—year—old princess charlotte, while four—year—old prince louis sits on his shoulders. the photograph was taken in jordan last year. although the photographer
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hasn't been officially revealed, it's thought to be his wife, catherine, who's well known for taking the family snaps. now on bbc news, bbc africa eye investigates how a chinese video—making industry is exploiting african children to produce racist videos. yes, you heard that correctly. on the kids are saying in chinese, "i may black monster; my io chinese, "i may black monster; my iq is low." this video was released in 2020 on a chinese social media account called, get this," jokes about black
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people club". within days it had more than 4000 likes and a ton of comments. some people were laughing; others were outraged. the word they are using could be translated as "black monster" or "black devil", but really it's the chinese equivalent of the letter in word. the controversy even got picked up in western media and sparked a worldwide debate about antiblack racism in china. ., , debate about antiblack racism in china. ., ._ ., debate about antiblack racism in china. ., ., ., in china. today what i found out was so _ in china. today what i found out was so disgusting - in china. today what i found out was so disgusting that l in china. today what i found out was so disgusting that i | out was so disgusting that i can't keep this to myself... but for me this wasn'tjust another online discussion. i was living in china at the time and had experienced these attitudes first hand. in the end of the internet moved on, but i couldn't get it out of my head. where was it shot? why was it made? who was it who took a bunch of

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