this is bbc news — i'm annita mcveigh — the headlines at eleven russian forces have captured severodonetsk in eastern ukraine, after weeks of intense fighting. it's the most significant city to have fallen into russian hands since mariupol. abortion clinics start to close in the u.s. after a supreme court ruling removed american women's constitutional right to abortion british prime minister borisjohnson defies conservative critics of his leadership by insisting there'll be no psychological transformation of his character in the wake of two by—election defeats. if you are saying you want me to undergo some sort of psychological transformation, i think that our listeners will know that is not going to happen.

norway cancels this year's oslo pride parade, after a deadly shooting at a gay nightclub, which police are treating as an act of �*islamist terrorism'. and sir paul mccartney — the star of glastonbury — on stage in front of a massive crowd. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world. watching in the uk in a breakthrough for president putin, russian forces have taken control of severodonetsk. the city occupies a key location in the east of ukraine. kyiv pulled out forces

after ferocious russian attacks. weeks of heavy shelling have reduced the city to ruins. here's the mayor of severodonetsk announcing that the city had fallen into russian hands. the city has been fully occupied by the russian federation. as far as i know, they're trying to impose their rules and appoint some sort of commandant two is in charge. our ukraine correspondent joe inwood has the latest from the capital kyiv it isa it is a significant moment, maybe not as surprising when given ukrainians had said they were withdrawing their forces. we understand they have gone across this area to understand they have gone across this crucial river president zelensky said this was a difficult moment both morally and emotionally and he also spoke about 45 cruise missiles fired into his country over the last 20 for hours. fired into his country over the last 2a hours. what is interesting as many were fired from belarus, their

northern neighbour, not officially involved in the war. there are fears in kyiv that they could be drawn in by the russians and there was a further escalation as well. president putin said he would give missile systems to his allies. as well as using ballistic and cruise missiles, they can carry nuclear warheads and it was a reminder that this war could escalate further. there's been further strong criticism by president biden of the supreme court's decision to ban a woman's constitutional right to abortion — the ruling was he said painful and devastating for many americans. clinics have begun closing in some states, and there've been demonstrations both in support of and opposed to the ruling. ou washington correspondent nomia iqbal reports. our washington correspondent nomia iqbal reports. more than 2a hours after the supreme court threw out roe v wade, the protests continued. i'm here because i think america has digressed several

decades since this ruling. the answer to pro—life his pro—death. and so does the ideological divide. you're being shouted at by someone who's... the things we're saying aren't going to change those people's minds. the constitutional right to an abortion will end, leaving it to the individual 50 states of america to make their own laws on it. i know how painful and devastating a decision this is for so many americans, and i mean so many americans. the decision is implemented by states. my administration is going to focus on how they administer and whether or not they violate other laws by deciding not to allow people across state lines to get public health services. and we're going to take action to protect women's rights and reproductive health. the country mr biden now leads is even more split. around 26 republican—led states will ban abortion except for when a woman's life is at risk.

but it's unclear how that will be medically determined. democratic—led states like new york say they will protect abortion rights. conservatives have been building for this moment for decades. they say this is about protecting women's rights. there are just so many people that don't understand the pro—life movement, they don't understand the pro—life position and they don't understand all the things that we are doing to help women and children. this is not a religious issue at all, this is a human rights issue. many of the protesters who are here and are pro—choice have told me that they want the government to do more, but president biden has said there is nothing he can do to restore abortion rights to a national level. he is hoping this will galvanise voters for the midterm elections in november, but will it be enough for voters to turn their attention away from other issues that they deeply care about? nomia iqbal, bbc news, washington.

rachel shelden is professor of history at penn state university in the us. she said today's supreme court is similar to how it was in the 19th century. well, the history of the court is a history of politics because the court has always been made up of political appointees and in the 19th century, especially, from the earliest years of the supreme court through the 19th century, you had justices who were nominated for their political and partisan proclivities. so, in many ways, it is a return to the way things were in the 19th century and early years of the united states. has it always been that way, though? yes, it has. it has always been political. the difference now is that americans tend to believe that the court should be apolitical, so all of the opinion polls about the supreme court rely a lot on the idea that the court must operate outside of politics. but of course that is really hard to do when the appointees come from presidents who come from particular political proclivities, and so the members of the court are still political

actors. the real difference there is that they are much more powerful than they would have been in the 19th century and in the early years of the nation. once they are appointed, though, can they be removed if they don't vote in a certain way? that is not generally how things have been done in the united states. exactly, exactly, so, you know, therefore, if they are a political appointee, appointed by a particular president, whether republican or democrat, do they tend to always stick to those lines? or do we see evidence ofjudges appointed by republican president or vice versa voting in surprising ways, let's say? they have been some surprises in the past but we have to remember that parties are made up of coalitions of people with different kinds of political views and so just because you are a republican does not mean you're going to follow

all of the same republican ideas as all republicans. because republicans are varied, and same with the democratic party. so, think aboutjudges as specifically partisan from the perspective of "only the party argues this" is a bad way of thinking about their own political proclivities. borisjohnson has insisted that questions about his leadership have been settled and that he will lead the conservative party into the next general election. his comments follow the tories�* defeat in two by—elections this week. speaking to the bbc from rwanda, where he's attending a commonwealth meeting, he claimed that people were �*heartily sick�* of questions about his conduct and that a "psychological transformation" of his character would not happen. from the rwandan capital kigali, alex forsyth has sent this report. diplomacy has been at the forefront of this commonwealth summit, but for the prime minister this morning, issues closer to home were dominant. evening, sir.

last night he attended an official dinner with his wife, carriejohnson, mingling with government heads while his own leadership is under scrutiny. after losing two by—elections and his party chair, critics want him to change. but borisjohnson says he won't undergo a psychological transformation, claiming it's policy people care about. when things are tough, of course people are rightly going to direct their frustration, their irritation at government and at me. i'm the leader of the government. i think, to be absolutely clear, in the last few months, people in tiverton, people in wakefield just heard far too much about stuff they didn't want to be hearing about. his cabinet have rallied round — some more so than others. the foreign secretary, in kigali herself, was pretty clear where she stood. i have absolute confidence in the prime minister. he's doing a fantasticjob. he's led on delivering on brexit, helping britain recoverfrom covid.

but those who've long called for him to go haven't given up. borisjohnson is actually galvanising an anti—boris johnson vote. the leader of the party should normally be more popular than the party itself, and what we're seeing with borisjohnson is that he's a huge drag on the ticket. the summit in kigali was meant to be about boosting trade and co—operation, but for the uk it's been overshadowed. first by plans to send asylum seekers here, then by politics miles away. this morning the prime minister claimed that the question of his leadership was settled when he won a vote of confidence among his own mps. clearly for some, that's not the case. after rwanda, he's not heading back to the uk but on to europe for meetings of the g7 and nato. but he knows his domestic problems will be waiting. here, the clean—up begins as the commonwealth summit closes. borisjohnson wants to brush away

these by—election defeats, clear he's not going anywhere. but there's no doubt they will leave a mark. alex forsyth, bbc news, kigali. police in norway have charged a 42 year old man with murder, attempted murder and terrorist acts after a shooting which left two people dead and 21 others injured. shots were fired at a popular gay venue in the capital oslo. the man had been known to the security services since 2015. duncan kennedy reports. the police were quick to seal off the area, but the gunman�*s attack lasted several minutes. the targets included a bar popular with the lgbtq+ community called the london club. translation: so i got to london and went both inside, _ outside and upstairs, and there were several injured and there were people already helping out with those who had been shot. this is norway's worst

terrorist attack in 11 years. a norwegian man of iranian descent has been charged with murder and terrorist acts. the country's prime minister said oslo had been hoping to celebrate its annual pride parade. we expected a lively and enthusiastic parade through our streets, of people celebrating pride after three years of pandemics and other standstills. instead, we have a dark day where terror struck oslo this night. although the pride parade was officially cancelled, this was the response. chanting: we won't disappear! thousands marching to show their defiance towards violence and their defence of diversity. duncan kennedy, bbc news. lars arnesen is the vice chair of oslo pride. he spoke to us earlier about his disappointment at having to cancel the event.

well, we really wanted to have the parade this year but unfortunately it was not possible for us to have it, under the circumstances. we got clear advice from the police that it would be possible that it would not be possible to have the parade in the streets today, and we followed that advice. and that was a really, really hard decision to make because we know that our community has been waiting for this parade for three years now through the pandemic, they have not been able to be in the streets since 2019, so we really worked hard to make this happen, but unfortunately it wasn't impossible, due to security reasons. i think this has affected us really, really hard. personally, for me, i know a lot of the people that were outside london pub last night and i know a lot of the volunteers that we have

in oslo pride also know people that were there and were either witnesses or injured. so, this has definitely been a really hard hit to our community, and i was really happy to see that even though we cancelled the official event earlier today, it was still thousands of people that met in the streets and showed their solidarity, and lay down flowers outside london pub. so, i was really happy that we were able to be together, even though we were not able to have the official pride parade today. it affects me personally. i have friends that were there and i have friends that were attacked,

so this has been a really hard day for me and, you know, we have been awake for many, many hours now, and we are very, very tired, but we try to do our best to get through this. the headlines on bbc news — abortion clinics are closing in some republican—controlled us states after a supreme court ruling which overturned the constitutional right to abortion. ukrainian authorities say russia has taken control of the city of severodonetsk after weeks of intense fighting. it's the most significant city to have fallen into russian hands since mariupol. borisjohnson says policy is more important than personality as he faces renewed calls to quit from after losing two by—elections. space tourism could have a greater effect on the climate than the aviation industry, according to a new report by researchers at ucl, the university of cambridge and the massachusetts institute of technology. they also looked at the impact of projected space tourism

based on the recent billionaire space race. earlier, i spoke to dr rob ryan, an atmospheric scientist and lead author of the report. we are particularly concerned about the impact of soot particles that come from rockets, especially those that burn hydrocarbon base fuels. the reason they are so important is that when they are placed high in atmosphere by the rockets, they are much more efficient at warming the planet than other sources of soot. you have looked specifically at these soot particles, tell us more about that impact and what you found in your study. the soot particles are made up of carbon, they are small particles, less than the width of a human hair, but they are very important because they absorb incoming solar radiation. effectively, they act as a way of adding a layer to the atmosphere that warms it. and we are concerned about the impact that this is going to have in the upper part of the atmosphere. and it's because the particles

are being placed in the upper part of the atmosphere can stay there a lot longer than if they are released at the surface, and in addition, it can get more incoming radiation because it is higher in the atmosphere. is a comparison to air travel useful or not? how do emissions from space flights compare, say, to a long haulflight? it is important to note that, at the moment, the overall climate impact of the aviation industry is still significantly larger. this is because the aviation industry releases a lot more carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas. the concern with the soot particles is that they are 500 times more efficient at warming the planet than soot from the aviation industry. so it won't take as many rocket launches at the current aviation industry to have a significant impact. now, i don't know if you have a look at this in detail, but when you talk about regulation, what sort of regulation would you like to see? of course, that is a question for policymakers.

we can certainly make some recommendations from our research around the types of rocket fuels. and around the number of launches. we can see that the current rate of growth of rocket launches is a fairly modest and it is having quite a minor impact on the climate and the ozone layer currently. but if we are ramping up to say, 1000 launches per year, ten times more than we have now, we can start to see these adverse effects. so, we would advocate for regulation of fuels and of rocket launches. is there a greener fuel that can be used in space tourism and space travel? that is one of the interesting arguments between various space tourism players about which fuels are greener. there is a debate that liquid hydrogen the cleaner fuel currently used by blue origin rockets... that is thejeff besos one, isn't it? yes, but two very important things. the carbon footprint for producing that liquid hydrogen fuel on the ground is a really intense. so, it is not necessarily a green

feel, even though it burns burns a little bit cleaner in the atmosphere. the other important point is that all rockets are destined to have an impact on the ozone layer because of the production of nitrogen oxides due to heating of the atmosphere as components both go in and out of the atmosphere. the taliban's health minister has told the bbc that afghanistan urgently needs international support to help with the aftermath of the earthquake that's killed more than 1000 people. even before the disaster, the country's healthcare system was in near collapse as it had been funded almost entirely by foreign aid, which was frozen after the taliban took over last august. from paktika province, the bbc�*s south asia correspondent yogita limaye reports. for people in afghanistan, pain is unrelenting. war, hunger and now an earthquake. eight—year—old shakrina was rescued with injuries to her leg

when her house collapsed. her elder sister died. in the next bed, their mother, meera. "we were under the debris until the morning, when some people pulled us out. they took us to a nearby clinic. i asked them, "where is my daughter?" they told me she had died," she said. "we are poor people. we have debts and now we've lost everything." bibi havar lost 18 members of herfamily. three of her sons were among them. both she and her daughter have multiple fractures. "my heart is in pain. when i go back from here, my children won't be there. it makes me so sad."

on the day after the earthquake, 75 patients were brought here — more than the capacity of the hospital that was already struggling to treat regular illnesses. stretched even before the earthquake hit, they're trying to do their best here, but even this main provincial hospital doesn't have the equipment to treat critical patients, so those who had injuries to their spine or their brain, they've had to send them to other facilities, which means people who have already spent hours travelling to this hospital then had to make another long journey to get any treatment at all. i asked the taliban's health minister whether they had got the international support they'd been asking for. we have received some humanitarian aid and assistance from the neighbouring countries like iran, pakistan, india and some of the arab countries. so are waiting for our partners and different countries around

the world to when and how they can provide humanitarian aid and assistance. but many would argue that the taliban has not lived up to its commitments on human rights or women's rights. how can the world then recognise this government, and in situations like this directly offer you assistance or money? i think there is some miscommunication between the international partners, they still cannot understand the people, and some statements of the taliban. ordinary afghans are caught in the politics. this labourer is trying to cope with the grief of losing his wife and a fear of the future. "my family and i worked so hard to make our house, now it's gone," he said. "we will never be able to rebuild it without help." yogita limaye, bbc news.

sir paul mccartney has taken to the pyramid stage for glastonbury�*s headline performance. it's the postponed 50th anniversary of the festival, and there for us is our culture editor, katie razzall, who has just sent this report. # can't buy me love, love. # can't buy me love... 80 years of age and the pyramid stage is his. sir paul mccartney, glastonbury�*s oldest ever solo headliner. # can't buy me love... this morning's sound check took place in front of fans who had already claimed the best spots. some were really dressing for the occasion. i got here nice and early

because i thought i'd make the most of it. i beat them all here. brilliant. we've only got nine and a half hours to wait. that's all. i've worked a night shift and i come here, haven't gone back to the tent but i may as welljust sit here and hang in there. he's the legend, he's just written the soundtrack to our lives. - it's great. we are on the way to the park, you're not following me that far, are you? # don't walk away... noel gallagher was the warm up act for mccartney here tonight. ten years after leaving oasis, he has a best—of album with his solo venture high flying birds. i started off my record buying journey with best—ofs because back in the day, when people used to go to record shops and didn't have that much money, you know you're not going to buy all eight, nine beatles albums, you're going to buy the red and the blue one, the best of the beatles and work your way in that way. what do the beatles mean to you?

everything. i don't really trust people who say they don't like them. you meet a few, i don't really like the beatles. it'sjust like, well, who do you like? as for macca himself, yeah, he's got the back catalogue that literally no—one else in the music business can touch. oh, man, it's so good to be here. we were supposed to be doing this three years ago. there have been many legendary sets in the somerset fields over the last half a century. this one has onlyjust begun. katie razzall, bbc news, glastonbury. after a two—year absence because of the pandemic, dogs have been competing to be crowned the world's ugliest dog. the winner is called mr happy face, who apparently impressed the judges with his crooked head, grey mohawk, hairless, pimple—ridden body, awkward hobble, and snort—like breathing.

his owner loves them very much. you're watching bbc news. hello. we've had some dramatic skies across parts of the uk through saturday, especially in the west, where we saw the most frequent showers. and some of those showers brought thunder and lightning and impressive cloudscapes. and it's all been down to an area of low pressure which has been slow—moving to the west of ireland. and that continues gradually north and eastwards through sunday, bringing the most frequent showers to the north and the west of the uk, and the strongest winds here, as well. so, through sunday morning, most frequent showers across northern ireland, northern and western scotland, north west england, parts of wales, perhaps a few into south west england. not so many getting further eastwards. in fact, the further east you are, the more likely it is to stay dry with the best of the sunshine, and hence the highest amateurs. but somewhat cooler further north and west where you've got the cloud, the showers and also the strength of the wind. so, for western coasts, particularly for irish sea coasts,

we could see those gusts touching a5, maybe 50 mph through sunday afternoon. so, it's a blustery afternoon. it should push the showers through fairly quickly, and whilst we can't rule out showers at glastonbury, certainly through the second half of the afternoon, it's looking dry. we should see increasing amounts of sunshine as well to end the day. so, fingers crossed for much of the day it should stay mainly dry. but as we had through sunday evening and overnight, thouse showers start to make their way a little bit further eastwards. once again, the further east you are, it should stay mainly dry with some clearer skies, and those showers just starting to ease across parts of scotland and northern ireland as we head through the early hours of monday morning. and it's a mild night, with most places will be in double figures. so, into monday, here's our area of low pressure. it's still close by, now to the north and west of scotland. we've got a second system starting to approach from the atlantic as well. so, once again on monday, it's a day of sunny spells and showers, but it looks by this stage that the showers will start to move their way a little bit further eastwards.

so, nowhere immune from a shower, but there will be some lengthy spells of sunshine in between. the winds not as strong, but it's still a fairly breezy day. and in the sunshine, we'll be seeing temperatures quite widely in the high teens, if not the low 20s celsius. it looks like east anglia and south east england will probably see the warmest conditions on monday. but it is a fairly unsettled week ahead. there'll be showers or longer spells of rain for many, but temporarily it should get a little bit warmer across east anglia and south east england. that's all from me. bye— bye.

hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the political commentatorjo phillips and the political editor of the sunday people and the sunday mirror nigel nelson. welcome back. let's have a quick look at what those front pages are saying. the observer leads on reaction to comments by borisjohnson that he's planning for a third term — with senior conservatives apparently calling him "delusional. " according to the telegraph, the prime minister is planning to impose sweeping new steel tariffs as he tries to win back support in red wall seats. but the paper says he could be accused of breaking international law. the sunday mirror reports on a high court verdict that government plans to house asylum seekers were unlawful.

the sunday times has further allegations about prince charles