power use, we will having headlines at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. 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 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 staff 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 it's ok. so just keep calm and listening, and then just come on. explosions

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... it was close. watch. 0k. 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 any more. 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 while 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. hello there. summer 2022 was certainly a memorable one, wasn't it? and as we bring summer to a close, these are some of the standout headlines — england'sjoint warmest summer on record, and the driest year so far for the uk since 1976. now, there is actually some rain in the forecast as we go through friday and towards the weekend. the weather is set to change. we've got this weather front here gathering pace into the north west, and this weather front�*s been bringing some showers. now, those showers may well linger for parts

of england and wales — fairly isolated, but nevertheless, they'll still be there. the best of the sunshine, north wales, northern england and eastern scotland. showery outbreaks of rain gather into the far north west of scotland and northern ireland. here, temperatures perhaps at around 18 celsius the high — but it will be another hot and humid afternoon for central and eastern england, with temperatures into the high 20s. all change as we move into the weekend — for some, there will be some thundery showers around or longer spells of rain, and it will turn increasingly windy for all. as an area of low pressure anchors itself out to the west, spiralling around that low in an anti—clockwise direction is a series of weather fronts that'll bring some rain, some of it fairly persistent, through northern ireland and southwest scotland throughout the weekend — and that could have an impact. it will certainly have an impact on the feel of the weather. elsewhere, sunny spells and scattered showers. not a bad day to the far north of scotland, highs of 19 here — but in the sunshine, in east anglia, if you dodge those showers, you should see

highs of 2a celsius. more wet weather in a similar position coming up through southwest england, wales, and then, sitting across northern ireland and southwest scotland. showers elsewhere — if you dodge those showers, you still keep those blustery winds, but it will still feel quite warm in the sunshine for parts of england and wales, as temperatures still likely to peak at highs of 25 celsius — disappointing under the cloud and the rain. the low pressure is not set to move very far very fast at all — into the early half of next week, it anchors itself down to the southwest. the wind direction still coming from the south, still relatively mild, but still, we could see some showers and those showers could be heavy and quite widespread for the early half of next week.

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