this is bbc news, the headlines: a long delayed united nations report says serious human rights abuses have been committed in the chinese region of xinjiang against uyghur muslims. it's also found that allegations of torture and abuse at detention camps are credible. beijing, which saw the report in advance, dismissed it as a farce. a united nations team of inspectors has arrived in the southern ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia, ahead of a visit to the nearby russian held nuclear power plant. moscow and ukraine blame each other for recent shelling of the area. it's thought the funeral of former soviet union president mikhail gorbachev will take place on saturday at the hall of columns in moscow — but russia has so far refused to confirm whether the 91—year—old will be afforded a full state funeral, nor whether president putin will attend.

now on bbc news — six months ago, thousands of ukrainian civilians joined the military to fight invading russian forces, including members of one of ukraine's top rock bands, antytila. come on. come on, come on. our music has vibration of love, but war has vibration of hate. we don't have a lot of equipment, so we need to buy this equipment by ourselves. i have no tears anymore.

i'm tired to cry. blood smells disgusting for me. and we are camouflaging this car to give it back to the front line. the sadness defeat me. every day like this. i'm frontman of antytila, popular band in ukraine. and now me with my friends, with my colleagues serving in territorial defence forces in kharkiv region. we are in our store,

in our supply depot. here is a lot of bandages, tourniquets. we saved a lot of lives using this tourniquets. we are paramedical team. paramedical squad. first of all, our main aim is to give the first aid to wounded and injured soldiers. and to transport them from the battlefield to the hospital. it was maybe ten or 15 calendars. but we keep in them, and if we need if somebody needs, somebody asks us to give them this, we give this, but we try to to keep it because it is it is the three last one.

it's like flashback from the past peaceful life. we played for more than 12 years, playing together. we released seven albums and gave a lot of gigs. it is more than 1,000 gigs during this time, so we had a lot of big ukrainian tours and we had three american and canadian tours. we planned a european tour. my name is sergi vucic.

i am the keyboard player in antytila. hello. i play guitar in antytila band. -

this vehicle's problems are that driver's door are not opening and back door are not closing, and passenger's door also not closing well. so now we are the car repair station. the situation is that we don't have a lot of equipment, so we need to buy this equipment by ourselves and to repair by using our money and money of friends

and ukrainian civilian people, volunteers who helps us to do this. and like it happens now, we are here on the repair station and they help us without money. news: the russian president, vladimir putin, has launched a major military operation against ukraine. before the war began, we were planning our new stadium tour. it was absolutely a different life. the war changed everything. we were living with our wives and kids in our apartments and our houses. when the war began on the 24th february, i woke up and i say to my wife that the war is started. we grabbed our kids and took some luggages with clothes,

documents, and my wife with my kids went away. but i stayed in kyiv. my friends did the same, and we started to serve. so we were preparing for this war, of course. i'm a singer from ukraine. my name on the stage is alyosha. i'm here in america with my three kids. we're living with taras's mother because she's living here a lot of time. and we with kids just waiting when we can go home.

this taras with maria in kyiv. this is our house. our home. when he volunteered, i think it's normal. absolutely. because he is a man. he is father, he is ukrainian men. and it's our country, our people and our future. during a long time, part of our battalion was here serving and doing theirjob. it is very essential to smile and to joke during this hard times. it helps. i don't know how it

works exactly. i don't know why it works like this. but when you are joking, when you are smiling, when you are joking, psychologically it helps. and somebody playing guitar and harmonica. # then she woke up # woke up from where she was lying still # saying we got to do something about where we're going # la la la la... # this is our guitar player, and this is our drummer.

they are the rhythm section and they are doing theirjob in kyiv like volunteers, like civilian and military volunteers. they are gathering a lot of different, very essential stuff together. they are collecting money for this. and also they delivers this to the hottest point on the frontline. we are camouflaging this car to give it back to the front line. this also is the type of work we do to help our soldiers. such a nice car.

ta—da! this man with his colleagues fixed our door, and now it opens and close. 0k. come on. 0k. now we on the repaired vehicle going directly to the front line at the north end

of kharkiv region to show you where and how we are serving in territorial defence forces. we should drive faster because russian artillery works. he's covering under the tree. let's go. here is the front line. this is our position. this yard was destroyed by russia mortarfire. so it is our bomb shelter. you see the blood here? it is the blood of our friend that was wounded. one piece of shrapnel cut out part of his leg.

we gave him first aid and after that transported him to the hospital. fortunately, professional ukrainian surgeons saved his leg. you know, blood smells disgusting for me. and also, when this smell compares with smell of the shelling, with smell of the explosion, it's the most disgusting smell of my life. distant explosions it's far away. it is russian mortarfire.

come on. come on, come on. explosions good. yeah. here we have it. here we go. it's ok. so just keep calm and listening, and then just come on. explosions i'm 0k.

come on. inside the car. it is russian mortar fire in that area. so now it's not so safe to go there. so it can happen every time. as i was saying. so you'rejust... i miss a good restaurant. i would like a good wine, good food, and also my friends. and also we were used to spend the evenings with our wives drinking good

wine, eating meat, good cheese, and talking about life. explosions # there's no—one left to blame... # every evening after doing my duties, i call my wife and my kids. phone rings

i'm worried about him and i'm just texting to whatsapp, to telegram. and when i see it's not in, in online, i'mjust, i don't know what to think. and that's why i told him, if you're not in online, you must tell me about this before because i'm crazy.

i have no tears anymore. i'm tired to cry. ijust can't wake up, like a dream. i'm in a dream. and i want to wake up. wake up in my home. i don't want to lie

that sometimes the sadness defeat me. like the sadness win this battle and takes me in her hands. and when i'm calling and i'm sad, it's this mood, i share this mood with my kid, with my wife. and after that, they became like, you know, they start to crying and i don't want to do this. i even don't tell them about what was happening like today or yesterday, really, what was really happening. and i don't tell them because for what? so i don't want to spread this like terrible feelings and some sadness to them.

and every day like this. # and all we need is us to go on # with the woman i love... # there were hard battles around kyiv. we made the song. it was hard because we were serving in our battalion and we were doing ourjob there. and now we we have a good song and it is very big pleasure for us that ed sheeran�*s team proposed to us to take

a part in this song. i can't ever imagine that someday bono will call me and invite me to take a part in his concert. and, you know, iwas doing my myjob and some number, covered number, called calls me and says hello, i'm bono. what? come on, what is happening? and bono gives us maybe 20 hours to come to kyiv because in that time we were in kharkiv. so we took our luggages

and we're driving overnight. and i was expecting to have some rehearsal with bono, but it didn't happen. and it was first time of my life that i'm singing with bono. the song that i have never sung before on the stage, i was nervous. our music has a vibration of love. but war has low vibration. vibration of hate, vibration of death, and it's different. so when we are playing music during this war, it helps. it heals like it's

like a medicine for us. what i want, i want to create a new album. new antytila album after the war. yes, maybe this war change our music. but also change our brains, ourthoughts. but when we will get this victory, when we will build a new country and dream you, we will need a new kind of songs, songs of happiness with a smile on our face. if we will survive, we will do this, of course.

# hello # from hazy tomorrow # hello # what dreams do you follow? # hello. as we turn the weather page from summer to autumn, it looks like nature is taking its cue as well. big changes this weekend. there could be a bit of thundery rain around across much of the uk — not everyone will see it — and potentialfor some strong winds as well. the weather charts really scream autumn — area of low pressure which will develop. around that, bands of heavy and thundery rain and potentially little smaller areas of low pressure within it, which could bring bouts of even stronger winds. complete contrast to what we've got out there tonight, into the morning. lightest winds across the northern half of the country. lowest of the temperatures down

to around 2 or 3 celsius. a bit more breezy to start the day in the south. 15 or 16 as we start the morning. could be a few distant rumbles of thunder towards the channel islands, maybe an isolated shower towards kent, too. most will be dry. a few showers in northeast england, but through the day, southern areas of england, wales, more cloud will develop and a few isolated showers or thunderstorms are likely. vast majority dry, with the sunshine out, lighter winds. it's going to feel a bit warmer as we go through thursday, particularly so in scotland and northern ireland. into thursday evening and overnight, those showers and thunderstorms will break out a little bit more widely across southern counties of england and wales — still very much well scattered, hit—and—miss, many places staying dry, but it will start to feel a bit more humid and not quite as chilly across scotland and northern ireland either to take us into friday. so this is the chart for friday. still some showers, thunderstorms around across the south, one or two showers breaking out elsewhere through the day. could be the odd sharp one too. more likely, though, across parts of western scotland and northern ireland through the afternoon. the breeze picking up across northern scotland, compared to what we've seen through recent days.

but a warm and humid one in the sunny spells, even though there's a bit more cloud. temperatures 20—25. biggest changes will come this weekend. could see a zone of showery, thundery rain from southwest scotland, northern ireland through towards east anglia. dry to the north of it with some strong winds. clearer slots to the south of it with some sunshine at times, but more in the way of heavy, thundery rain out in the west later. and the winds will be a feature on saturday, to the west of the country and more especially in the north. northwest scotland could see winds touch gale force at times. here are your temperatures for saturday — nice enough when the sun shines out, it'll feel cooler, though, in the wind and where you have the rain. and as i said, potential for more rain to come notjust through sunday, but into monday. and any of these areas of low pressure that spin up, whilst there's a bit of uncertainty around them, they could bring some strong winds too.

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