this is bbc news. the headlines at six... breaking news — danish police say several people have been hit, after shots were fired at a shopping centre in the capital copenhagen. six new claims of inappropriate behaviour by former deputy chief whip chris pincher have emerged — days after he was suspended as a tory mp after allegations he groped two men. russia says it now controls the whole of the luhansk region in eastern ukraine — but ukrainian officials say they can't confirm the reports. the number of people being admitted to hospital with covid will continue to rise, according to the head of the uk health security agency. the government's spending watchdog is to review borisjohnson�*s pledge to build a0 new hospitals by 2030. and in tennis, britain's cameron norrie is on the verge of his first

wimbledon quarter—final. but heather watson has been knocked out. some breaking news. danish police say several people have been hit, after shots were fired at a shopping centre in the capital copenhagen. dozens of heavily armed officers have been deployed to the fields mall in the east of the city. all roads there and the metro line linking it to the centre is have been closed, and ambulance and fire crews have arrived at the site. the shopping centre is close to a music venue where the british singer harry styles is due to perform this evening. we will bring you more on that as soon as we get it.

borisjohnson is facing fresh questions about how much he knew when he appointed chris pincher as deputy chief whip in february after a series of fresh allegations about his behaviour emerged. the tamworth mp resigned from the government on thursday, after he was accused of groping two men in a private members' club the night before. mr pincher, who admits that he'd had too much to drink, says he's now seeking professional help. he denies the latest claims which are made in a number of sunday newspapers. here's our political correspondent damian grammaticas. for borisjohnson, new scrutiny about his decision to appoint chris pincher, one of his most loyal supporters, to the powerful post of deputy chief whip. mr pincher resigned that post after the events here at the carlton club on wednesday, accused of publicly groping two men. he said he had drunk far too much and embarrassed himself and others. this weekend has brought six more allegations. all are denied by mr pincher. three are that he made similar unwanted advances to fellow mps, one in a bar in parliament, one in his private office.

in february, when mr pincher was made whip, one of those mps contacted downing street to relay his concerns. downing street has said that at the time, borisjohnson was not aware of any specific allegations, something repeated by a minister today. so how can you be sure that he didn't know about the allegations? well, i'm saying that i've been informed this morning he did not know about specific allegations, as has been well reported. people who spoke to him on friday and in agreement with the chief whip, the whip was removed from chris pincher, who, by the way, is now under a formal investigation process. and it's important that process is allowed to happen. so i'm still not clear, who has told you that the prime minister, and who has told you with certainty the prime minister didn't know about the allegations? somebody from the number 10 press office. so the number 10 press office says categorically that he didn't know about them? well, as i say, i've been, as usual, one gets briefed on a wide variety of topics when you come onto a show like this today, and that's what i've been informed.

dominic cummings, former aide, now bitter critic of mrjohnson, has weighed in, saying long before appointing mr pincher, mrjohnson had laughingly referred to him as "pincher by name, pincher by nature." asked if that was true, downing street has remained silent. no denial issued. i don't think they've taken these things seriously. i think they've made decisions which they shouldn't have made. i can't believe some of the things that are in the papers today about what the prime minister may have personally been aware of before he made decisions like this. but all of politics suffers. for his part, mr pincher has this weekend said, "the stresses of the last few days, coming on top of those over the last several months have made me accept i will benefit from professional medical support." chris pinter has made clear he does not intend to resign from parliament but has agreed to stay away while the independent investigation happens. meanwhile, borisjohnson�*sjudgment and the culture he oversees are both once again being questioned.

damian grammaticas, bbc news, westminster. russia says its taken control of the eastern city of lysychansk with president putin informed of its capture. ukraine has yet to coment on the claims but if true it would give russia control of the luhansk region. meanwhile russia says it shot down a number of missiles aimed at the city of belgorod on its side of the border with ukraine. in the last hour, own correspondent in kyiv, sarah rainsford, gave us this update on the situation. we have just heard from president zelensky who said it is impossible to say that lysycha nsk is under full russian control. he said the situation there was still dangerous and difficult and there was still fighting on the outskirts of the city but we have seen those videos of russian fighters walking through parts of lysychansk and it was the defence minister of russia who informed vladimir putin that the whole region of luhansk had been liberated as he put it

which is a pretty bold claim if he wasn't sure. this is a key moment i think that is coming close. it is an important moment because russia has always talked about liberating the entirety of the donbas region, liberating it says of course, ukraine would say occupying. that moment has expanded. there has been heavy shelling beyond the luhansk region, in the donetsk region, the hotel i was in on the night this invasion began has now been destroyed by missile strikes and there has been deadly strikes inside russia itself as the project is accusing ukraine firing missiles into russian territory, as when it shot those down the fragments killed civilians on the ground in russia. ukraine has denied that though. ukraine's ambassador to turkey says customs officials have seized a russian cargo ship carrying ukrainian grain. the kremlin has rejected claims of theft, saying russia is exporting goods from territory it controls. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov said he believes that the uk is trying to find grounds and create conditions for the uk's royal navy

to enter the black sea and lead the process of releasing grainfrom ukraine. translation: this food crisis is being used - for a variety of purposes. not only for propaganda, but to clear ukraine's - name and, once again, - blame everything on moscow. but, if you listen to, - for example, borisjohnson, and his foreign secretary, - they are clearly trying to create conditions to find a pretext. for the royal navy to infiltrate the black sea and begin the entire process of releasing grain - from the ports which have been mined by the ukrainians and which _ the ukrainians are bound to demine. at least six people have died after a section of glacier fell onto a group of mountaineers in the italian alps. eight others were injured in the incident on the slopes of marmolada. the area has seen unusually hot weather in recent days. local officials say around 15 hikers were in the area at the time — and there are fears the death toll may rise. helicopters and teams with dogs are searching the area for survivors.

the metropolitan police has said no further action will be taken at this time following an allegation of sexual assault against the glasgow north mp patrick grady. 0fficers said they carried out inquiries, including speaking to the alleged victim. mr grady suspended his snp membership as a result of the investigation. he was previously suspended from parliament for two days after he was found to have made a sexual advance to a teenage member of staff. a 14—year—old boy has been arrested after a woman said she was raped at a nightclub in manchester. the police believe she and her friends had been offered drugs before the alleged attack on wednesday. the boy, arrested on suspicion of rape, has been bailed as inquiries continue. the nightclub — bloom — has since temporarily closed while the investigation continues. the chief executive of the uk health security agency, damejenny harries, has warned that the number of people being admitted to hospital with covid is expected to rise further. the latest uk figures show that infections jumped by more than

half a million in a week. 0ur health editor hugh pym gave more detail on dame jenny's comments. she is acknowledging that there is another wave at a moment and that it is not finished and she is saying if you look at the numbers, she didn't give a timeframe on this, but it could well be more in hospital with covid than there were back in march. that was the previous peak, around 16,500, currently around 9000 in hospital now, so it is warning it could be higher because it is fuelled by these new variants of the variant 0micron, which spread more rapidly. it has to be said, if you look at hospital numbers, they are not all by any means people who have gone on primarily because of covid and a certain number have other conditions and then tested positive, but it does put more pressure on the nhs and nhs providers representing rustling and have said this means there will be a bumpy ride over the coming months, with existing pressure already there on the nhs.

damejenny harries also warned the flu season may come earlier in the autumn as well as another covid wave, so certainly rather a cautionary note from her today. after reports of a shooting in copenhagen, police say one person has been arrested in connection with the shooting at the fields mall. several shots had been fired there in the danish capital copenhagen. dozens of heavily armed officers have been deployed to the shopping centre. they have confirmed one person has been arrested in connection with the shooting, there. more on that as we get it. the government's spending watchdog is to review borisjohnson�*s pledge to build a0 new hospitals by 2030 — to see if it still represents good value for money given spiralling inflation. details of the national audit office review first emerged in a letter to the shadow health secretary, wes streeting. but the department of health and social care insists the plan is on track to deliver a0 new hospitals by 2030.

saffron cordery, is interim chief executive of nhs providers, which represents hospitals and trusts across england. earlier, we asked her if the government's pledge was still on schedule. we know there have been some real challenges with the progress of the new hospitals programme and many trusts are behind schedule because they haven't been given the go—ahead to get building. i think we have to put this in the context of wider challenges for the nhs, in terms of investment in bricks and mortar and investment in its infrastructure, but the expenditure to date has been woefully lacking. things like estates maintenance and backlog are already at £9.2 billion worth needs to be done, and that's just for repairs and maintenance. then we have this whole programme that we are waiting to see delivered and we haven't yet seen sufficient funding or the right timeframes come forward to deliver it.

who is responsible for these delays and this lack of funding allowing progress to be made? we know many of the schemes within the programme had previously been given the go—ahead but the idea behind the programme was to bring all projects together to help them consolidate what they were doing and also to bring forward things like modern methods of construction, which should be more sustainable and actually more cost—efficient. however, we know the programme a whole, and things like investment, has been lagging behind because there have been delays and those delays sit between the treasury, the department of health and social care and number 10. so the government has made these promises but not been quick enough in providing the cash needed to fulfil them? they haven't given the reassurance that cash will be there to fulfil them.

what we also have to remember is, later this year, the government is due to give the go—ahead for a further eight schemes. so, we will go from a0 schemes to a8 schemes but it seems challenging at the moment understand how they will afford those when we know there are particular pressures for the budgets of those that are fairly well along the track for delivery. that must be frustrating for you, do you welcome the national audit review? absolutely, it is always good to see the national audit office looking at public expenditure because they have that laser—like focus on what is going on, so we look forward to seeing what comes out of that. but in the meantime, we know trusts are really challenged and many of them are what we call shovel—ready and ready to go, just waiting for the go—ahead. heavy rain and wind is creating a life—threatening emergency situation for residents in australia's biggest city sydney. thousands have been told to leave their homes in the south west of the city because of the risk

of flash floods and landslides. from sydney, shaimaa khalil reports. another extreme weather event, only a few months since the last one. in the southwestern sydney suburb of camden, home to more than 100,000 people, local shops and a petrol station were inundated. not much else has been spared here. many communities have seen a month's worth of rain in the last two days alone. thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate southwest sydney. with torrential rain and damaging winds thrashing the east coast, more wet weather was expected in the next couple of days across new south wales. this is the start of the school holidays here. many families were getting ready to travel. but the message from the emergency services is that unless you order to evacuate, people should stay home.

—— unless you are ordered to evacuate. heavy rains have also caused sydney's main dam to overspill and the bureau of meteorology is warning of more flood risks. we are now facing dangers on multiple fronts. flash flooding, riverine flooding and coastal erosion. this is a life—threatening emergency situation. experts say the flooding emergency has been worsened by climate change and other new weather phenomenon. insurance companies warned that community is prone to flooding may be forced to relocate as new figures suggest that floods earlier this year are one of the country's costliest ever natural disasters. the headlines on bbc news... breaking news — danish police say several people have been hit, after shots were fired at a shopping centre in the capital copenhagen. 0ne one person has been arrested.

six new claims of inappropriate behaviour by former deputy chief whip chris pincher have emerged — days after he was suspended as a tory mp after allegations he groped two men. russia says it now controls the whole of the luhansk region in eastern ukraine. the food and drink federation has warned that "relentless" food prices may not peak until next year, with inflation set to hit double digits. the group, which represents uk food and drink manufacturers, said it usually takes between seven and 12 months for producers' costs to reach shop shelves. our business correspondent noor nanji says consumers are yet to see more price rises at supermarkets. we know food prices are going up, now comes a warning they could go higher. this warning has come from the boss of the food and drink federation karen bett, and she is warning that food price inflation could continue to rise into next year due to soaring costs. food inflation, the rate at which prices rise, was already at 6.7% in april

and 8.7% in may, we asked her how high she thought it could go? how far it will go really is anyone's guess. it is really hard for me to estimate that. but other organisations, economists, have estimated it's going to go well over 10%, and i certainly don't have any evidence to counter that. as i say, food price rises have been relentless over the last few months, there really has been no let—up, and all of the input costs at the moment continue to rise. what you see in food and drink is there's usually to 12—month time lag in the prices that manufacturers pay before those price rises are felt on shop shelves. so, if manufacturers are still facing price rises now, it follows that, in seven to 12 months' time, we will still be seeing some food price inflation, albeit we hope that it might have levelled off or started

to peak by then. so, all of this is yet to hit consumers? as she says, the manufacturers are all talking about soaring input costs, prices going up, everything from labour costs to raw materials to energy prices as well. that has been fuelled by the war in ukraine, pushing up the prices of things like energy, oil and gas, fertilisers. but it takes time for that to filter through to consumers and to supermarket shelves, and that is why she talks about this concept of there being a time lag. other organisations have warned that food price inflation could hit as high as 15%, so all of that is obviously very worrying for consumers, particularly those on the lowest incomes. travellers are facing more disruption to their plans, as the industry struggles with staff shortages ahead of a busy holiday period. holidaymakers are being told to expect more flight cancellations over the next few days.

and in the us, 1,000 flights have been cancelled across independence day weekend. it's scenes like this that airlines and the government want to avoid. but after months of travel chaos, which included the easter and jubilee holidays, passengers now face more disruptions in the days ahead. what you are going to see in the next few days are thousands of flight cancellations by british airways and others because they have a window in which they can effectively hand back the slots that they use for taking off and landing at airports like heathrow. and with this window, there is no penalty for them. they also want to give consumers more than 1a days notice of any cancellation, because if they give more than two weeks notice, they won't have to pay compensation to those of us who find flights are cancelled. so the next few days are going to be very tricky indeed. staff shortages have been causing long queues at airports and severe

problems with baggage handling. after thousands of aviation jobs were lost during the covid pandemic, businesses have struggled to hire new staff in time for the holidays. that's why ministers have said security checks are being turned around in record time for new recruits. the department for transport has even said counterterrorist checks are being processed on average in under ten days. that is half the time it took in march. in a statement, transport secretary grant shapps said... but labour argue the government have been missing in action and are now simply playing catch—up.

the same issues have been plaguing other countries. in the united states, it is a holiday weekend with the country celebrating independence day on ath ofjuly. but a shortage of pilots and crew has meant airlines have cancelled more than 1,000 flights. meanwhile, in the uk, with airlines due to fix their schedules by friday, it means a nervous few days for passengers. the eye—watering cost of fuel is hitting drivers and business alike. it's impact is being felt even more acutely in rural communities. there is rural fuel duty relief — a government subsidy cutting 5p off a litre — but is only available in a handful of remote areas in england and scotland, not northern ireland or wales. and with a litre of unleaded hitting a new average high of over £1.91 a litre, there are calls for the government to do more, as hywel griffith has been finding out in wales. this is linda's office.

her car roams the roads of rural west wales, clocking up 1,000 miles a month so she can care for people in their own homes. it's a lifeline for her community... you 0k, ian? ..in one of the most remote areas of britain, but it comes at a rising cost. even with a mileage allowance from her employer, linda says she now spends half of her wages on fuel. i will have to leave this job, and i would hate to, i would really hate to. we don't have enough staff, i don't think any care company has enough staff, and they're going to leave. there is a government scheme to bring down the cost of petrol and diesel in remote places. rural fuel duty relief is only available in a handful of postcodes in england and scotland, and nowhere at all in wales or northern ireland. it's meant to compensate for the cost of getting fuel

to remote forecourts, not the extra miles people drive in the countryside. the treasury says every driver in the uk has already benefited from the fuel duty cut in march. there's another garage, he's below £2. but nick says he has not felt the benefit. the cost of fuelling his cabs has risen 50% in the last six months and, after holding out, this month he has put up his prices. don't like it. i feel i'm letting people down. i don't like doing it, but i've got to, because otherwise next week i won't be here. 0h, you've grown it more now. robin has already put up her prices and doesn't feel she can do it again, so this mobile hairdresser now stays at home. most of her customers now drive to her. for the time being, with the costs of the fuel,

and everything else going up, in working more from home then i'm not putting that price up for the clients. what did you do there? the cost of fuel has driven inflation across the uk but in some of its most rural communities it risks changing lives and livelihoods for good. hywel griffith, bbc news, ceredigion. it's little more than a week since the us supreme court overturned the automatic right to have an abortion — but the effects of that landmark ruling are already being felt outside of the us. here in the uk, staff at some women's clinics are reporting larger numbers of anti—abortion protesters gathering outside — which they say is causing distress to patients. 0ur religion editor aleem maqbool has been finding out more. the lord's prayer, opposite an abortion clinic in london, in footage taken by a member of staff there. 0ne provider told us there's been

a noticeable increase in protest activity in the uk since news emerged that abortion rights would be overhauled in the us. regularly, anti—abortion protesters stand directly outside our clinic entrances, approaching women as they go in. they will call them �*mummy�* for example, hand them literature saying �*abortion causes breast cancer�*. and you have heard reports to that effect in recent days? yes, absolutely. just yesterday, we had an incident in which we had to call the police because protesters were shouting so loudly outside one of our clinics that the women in the treatment rooms could hear them while they were undergoing their procedures. in this country, on the whole, it remains a very low number of anti—abortionists who go to stand outside of clinics, and a handful of local authorities have introduced measures to keep them away from women accessing treatment. that's not to say that anti—abortion

groups haven't been buoyed by recent news from the us. just as culture here impacts what happens in the united states, so what happens in the united states impacts what happens here. but there just isn't the momentum behind the kind of campaign here. momentum can build. there are plenty of, uh, there are plenty of groups with a heart and a passion to see abortion overturned in this country, to make abortion history. christian concern might want that but it's not a realistic prospect. there was a recent court case brought by heidi crowter to move towards ending the possibility of late—term abortions on the grounds of disability like down�*s syndrome. i am really upset not to win. the case was lost but will be heard at the court of appeal later this month. at the moment abortion is still technically a criminal offence in england, scotland and wales, except when there's substantial risk the child would have mental or physical abnormalities, the life

of the pregnant woman's at risk, or there's risk of harm to the pregnant woman's physical or mental health. the vast majority of abortions here are signed off by doctors under the last provision. butjust as events in the us appeared to be encouraging anti—abortion voices here, pro—choice activists hope it'll galvanise support to decriminalise abortion. aleem maqbool, bbc news. that breaking news of the shooting at a shopping centre in copenhagen, several people injured, one person arrested. 0ur correspondent frances read has been following the story and joins me now several people have been injured after being hit by gunshots. we do not know the severity of that at this time. it happened at the fields shopping centre between the centre of copenhagen and the city airport, were distant between the two, and

there is a heavy armed police presence there and one person has been arrested, that is what we know so far. eyewitnesses in the area at the time said they saw 100 people running for the exit of the shopping centre, when they first heard those gunshots. police have told people to stay away from that shopping centre at the moment. interestingly the pop musician harry styles is due to perform a concert there, tonight, as part of his tour, at the royal arena in the city, and it is literally almost across the road from the shopping centre, a ten minute walk. it is not yet known if that incident will impact the concert. all of the roads in the area are currently closed. the metro line in that area is closed, and we are yet to see whether any more details will emerge in the coming hours. a leading figure of british

theatre, peter brook, has died at the age of 97. his career encompassed shakespeare plays, broadway musicals and cinema. his best known film was the 1963 adaptation of lord of the flies. his other work covered film and theatre, where he left his marks with his radical works, among them shakespeare's a midsummer night's dream now it's time for a look at the weather with lucy martin. hello there. sunday brought a day of sunny spells and scattered showers. as we go through tonight, we continue to see a feed of showers and a few spells of rain across scotland, northern ireland, northern england and eventually into northern wales, into the early hours. to the south of that, though, it's a largely dry picture with patchy cloud and clear spells. temperatures fairly similar to where they've been over the past few nights, sitting between eight and 13 degrees celsius. tomorrow, a fairly blustery start to the day across scotland, northern ireland, northern england, the winds tending to ease across northern ireland and northern england and a mixture of sunny spells and showers to be found here. although fewer showers than we've seen on sunday for central

southern england, wales will see a band of clouds slip its way south, but sunny spells following on behind with temperatures at a maximum of 23 celsius. and then a quick glance at the week ahead. temperatures are going to pick up across the board, but particularly in the south. take a look at the temperatures in london towards the weekend, getting up to 27 celsius by sunday.