this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. international outcry as putin declares for regions of ukraine are now russian. as a choreographed event in moscow's red square putin declares victory will be ours. it came after a lavish signing ceremony at the kremlin where russia formally annexed ukrainian

territory. here in the uk, pressure on the tech giants as a coroner rules social media did play a part in the suicide of molly russell.here in the uk, pressure on the tech hurricane ian has made landfall in south carolina after devastating florida. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. president biden has warned russia that it will not get away with using its land by force.

after it announced the annexation of four regions in ukraine it is the biggest regions of ukraine that are in part controlled by russian forces — it's the biggest seizure of territory in europe since the second world war. in a signing ceremony at the kremlin mr putin declared that donetsk, luhansk, zaporizhzhia and kherson are now part of russia. in response, ukraine has formally applied to join nato. our russia editor, steve rosenberg reports. vladimir vladimirovich putin. what he was about to do had sparked international condemnation, but vladimir putin didn't care. in the kremlin, he announced the annexation of 15% of ukrainian land. in the audience, kremlin—appointed officials from those territories occupied by russia. translation: i want the kyiv authorities and their real- masters in the west to hear me, so that they remember this forever. people in luhnask and donetsk, kherson and zaporizhzhia are becoming our citizens — forever. defiant, unapologetic, russia's

president laid into the west. translation: instead - of democracy there, there's suppression and exploitation. instead of freedom, enslavement and violence. america is the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons twice, when they destroyed the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki. by the way, they set a precedent with that. comments like that are worrying in light of the kremlin�*s recent nuclear sabre—rattling. through this annexation, vladimir putin is trying to change the facts on the ground, trying to secure for himself some kind of victory. the problem is, you can claim all you want that land you have occupied is rightfully yours, but ukraine isn't going to believe that, the international community doesn't believe that, and that leaves vladimir

putin looking more isolated than ever. joe biden. president biden condemned the annexation and imposed new sanctions on russia. we're rallying the world to keep support for ukraine strong and consistent. applause. and ukraine's right to exist as a people. this represents the most serious escalation since the start of the war. none of this shows strength. it shows weakness. it is an admission that the war is not going to plan. moscow says these territories arejoining russia after holding referendums, but they've been widely discredited. the west denounced them as a sham, scripted and directed by the kremlin.

and so the stage was set for the next act, the signing ceremony. plenty of pomp, but think of the circumstance. vladimir putin has just raised the stakes. he's warned he will defend the annexed territories with all means at his disposal, and he says he's not bluffing. cheering. tonight, more kremlin choreography, and the president portrayed like a pop star. many in this crowd have been bussed in specially to create a sense of celebration, although polls show there is growing alarm in russia over the war in ukraine and about russians being called up to fight there. but this promise from the president — "victory will be ours". steve rosenberg,

bbc news, moscow. it was perhaps no surprise that russia vetoed at the un council which had annexed put forward by the us and china have jointly india were among the countries that abstain. unsurprisingly, russia has vetoed a resolution at the united nations security council which condemned its annexation of parts of ukraine. the resolution was put forward by the us. china, brazil and india all abstained. my colleague shaun ley has been speaking to the uk's permanent representative to the united nations, dame barbara woodward. he asked her the purpose of tabling the resolution, given that russia could have been expected to use its veto. the purpose was twofold. the first was to expose for what they are the sham and a legal annexations of the four provinces

of ukraine totalling of a land area of about the size of portugal, the biggest annexation since hitler in world war ii. the second was to make russia isolated yet again. and we saw russia, the only country to vote against the resolution and to receive the same again next week when the general assembly, the full membership of the united nations, considers this question. i expect strong support for the key concepts of sovereignty and territorial integrity which is what this is fundamentally about. what ukraine has been fighting for the last seven months. the difficulty is that other important countries, china says it always believes in non—intervention and therefore you would have though would have been naturally uncomfortable and had express, or at least putin had suggested, concerns of the shanghai corporation organisation meeting. india openly criticised it and yet abstained. without the support of those countries and it's quite hard to make progress, isn't it, in an international institution like the un? i'm not sure i agree with that, i think we heard in all of the countries that voted today, apart from russia

of course, the support, first of all for cyber soverigenty and territorial integrity, the critical principle that no country should be vulnerable for an autocratic dictator, rolling tanks across its border, or randomly waking up and annexing some of its territory. and it they were absolutely clear after voting for the support for the un charter. and as the secretary general said yesterday this is a moment where we are seeing russia standing against everything that the un stands for. so i think overall we still have strong support for the un charter and russia is isolated. police in afghanistan say at least 20 people , most of them young women, have been killed and many more

wounded in a suicide bombing at an educational centre in kabul. the attack happened in kabul�*s dasht—e—barchi neighbourhood. students had been sitting mock university entrance exam, when the explosions happened. many of those living in the area are from the hazara minority, which has been targeted in past attacks. no group has yet said they are behind the blast. of south carolina as a category one storm, after pummelling florida on wednesday. this is the historic coastal city of charleston — which is being lashed by winds and heavy rain. hundreds of kilometres of the south—eastern seaboard of the us are under severe weather alerts. earlier, the hurricane caused widespread devastation in florida, where search and rescue efforts are still under way. officials believe at least 21 people may have died — but it may be days before the full number of casualties is known. our correspondent nada tawfik has the latest from fort myers, one of the worst hit areas. all morning we have had people coming through here this

is the legacy harbour marina to take a look at their possessions, their boats. and as he can see behind me the boats have been completely lifted out of the water come off of their pylons and have been thrown onto the shore on top of each other in the marina itself is just completely destroyed. so there is debris everywhere. we spoke with one gentleman who is a 60 foot yacht is nowhere to be found he assumes that it was broken up through the storm surge, the strong winds and thrown into the water. we have just seen a few other people going into their boats, treading carefully over the debris trying to seek ——take pictures to submit to their insurance because this, of course, will be costly for so many people. here in the uk, prince william has said that online safety for children and young people should be a prerequisite, not an afterthought, after a coroner ruled that social media contributed to the death of a 14—year—old girl. molly russell took her own life

5 years ago after viewing thousands of posts relating to depression, self harm and suicide. her father has called on social media companies to tackle their "toxic culture". a warning that angus crawford's report contains some distressing details. full of love and bubbling with excitement, her family say. but in secret, overwhelmed by depression and what she saw on social media. now, afterfive years, some answers and a sense ofjustice. i hope that this will be an important step in bringing about much—needed change. ian russell always said social media helped kill molly. now, a coroner agrees. he said molly: "..died as a result of an act of self—harm "while suffering depression and the negative effects "of online content." the inquest was shown images like this, liked and shared by molly. "look in my eyes," it says.

"i want to die." and here, a heart monitor. the question, "if it stopped, would you miss me?" the algorithms sent her thousands just like it, dark and miserable, cut wrists and nooses. and there were hundreds of videos — black and white, glamorised, set to music. the coroner concluded that: "some of these sites were not safe. "they allowed access to adult content that should not have been "available for a 14—year—old child to see." ian russell came every day, sitting through two weeks of graphic evidence about what molly felt and what she saw — the posts he described as a drip feed of daily hopelessness. and, in a first for big tech, executives for meta, which owns instagram, and the image—sharing site pinterest, called

to account under oath, in a court in the uk. ian russell first spoke out about what he found on molly's phone in 2019. "this world is so cruel and i don't want to see it any more." he became a vocal campaigner, speaking to mps. i remember my disbelief when i saw my lifeless youngest daughter... even meeting the prince and princess of wales, who tonight said... "no parent should ever have to endure what ian russell "and his family have been through. "online safety for our children needs to be "a prerequisite, not an afterthought. " instagram did make some safety changes. three years ago, we spoke to the ceo, who had this message for ian. i have a lot of respect for the fact that he's turned an incredibly tragic experience into a force for change, into a force for good.

and for that, i'm grateful. but ian says any reforms came too late for molly and much, much more needs to be done. if this demented trail of life—sucking content was safe, my daughter molly would probably still be alive. and the final thing i want to say... ..is thank you, molly, for being my daughter. thank you. stay with us on bbc news, still to come. we report from brazil as they prepared to head to the polls this weekend in a election billed as the countries most important since returning to

democracy in 1989. in all russia's turmoil, it has never quite come to this. president yeltsin said today would decide the nation's destiny. the nightmare that so many people have feared for so long is playing out its final act here. russians are killing russians in front of a grandstand audience. it was his humility that produced affection from catholics throughout the world. but his departure is a tragedy for the catholic church. this man, israel's right—winger ariel sharon, visited the religious compound, and that started the trouble. he wants israel alone to have sovereignty over the holy sites, an idea that's unthinkable to palestinians. after 45 years of division, germany is one. - in berlin, a million germans celebrated the rebirth - of europe's biggest

and richest nation. | this is bbc news, the latest headlines. international outcry as president putin declares that for areas of ukraine seized illegally are now russian. ukrainian officials in zaporizhia — one of the four areas annexed on friday — say 30 people have been killed and 88 more injured after a russian missile strike on a convoy of civilian vehicles. 0ur ukraine correspondentjames waterhouse has been to the site of the attack on the outskirts of the city. a warning his report contains some distressing details. there was no doubting the target. this was about killing civilians — people. here, waiting to be escorted

to russian—occupied territory. they work methodically, patiently, under an eerie silence. until... woman cries. ..people arrive to find someone dear to them has gone. viktoriia had stepped out for a break at the cafe where she worked. she came back to find her boss lying dead on the floor. translation: people were dying here. - i was away for five minutes and when i came back, i saw a boy dying, his mother trying to save him. then i ran around, calling out for my boss. there was somebody�*s mother, her son saving her. somebody�*s husband, his wife weeping. all this and complete hysteria.

you can't believe how terrifying that was. then, we're told to take cover. get off the flat. another russian missile is in the air and the fear is what's called a double tap — hitting the same place twice. this close to the front line, the threat is always there. another russian annexation of ukrainian territory has been met with the now typical kyiv response. translation: the entire | territory of our country will be liberated from this enemy. the enemy not only of ukraine but also of life itself — humanity, law and truth. russia already knows this, it feels our power. when you think about what this place was used for, along with that enormous crater, all of those point to a very deliberate, targeted strike. the reasons for it are not clear, as ever.

but the devastation is plain to see. ukraine says it's once again applying tojoin nato. the alliance, however, has always been worried about causing an escalation — something russia is less concerned about. james waterhouse, bbc news, zaporizhzhia. investigators have begun a new dig in moor. they have been

investigating detectives investigating the death of a schoolboy investigating who was killed by the moors murderers ian brady and myra hindley in 1964, have begun a new dig on saddleworth moor. greater manchester police are examining a report that a fragment of human skull has been discovered by a man researching the disappearance of 12 year old keith bennett. our north of england correspondentjudith moritz reports. in howling wind and driving rain, there is no bleaker part of the north of england for search teams to be examining. but now, on the moors which are synonymous with murder, the sight of scenes of crime officers investigating possible human remains. this is the little boy whose body they are looking for — keith bennett, one of five children tortured and killed by the moors murderers in the 1960s and the only one who has never been found. chris has farmed this area for 50 years and owns the land which is now being examined by the police. these murders up here, it's not a nice thing. it is such a beautiful valley but it is blackened by that, what happened, yeah. i have always been going out and looking for any signs of a grave when i have been gathering sheep up on the hills. i've done it, well, i promised keith's mum. she came to see me when she was going to pass on with cancer

and asked me to keep looking and i said, "i will keep looking". if they have found him, it will be a very big relief for theirfamily. this section of saddleworth moor is unforgiving. 5000 acres of peat bog land which has been searched before without success. but this location where they are now looking at, where i am standing, is very near to where the remains of some of hindley and brady's other child victims were also discovered. ian brady died in 2017 without revealing where keith was buried, despite having been taken to the moors himself in 1987 to join a police search. officers are now looking here after having been contacted by a private search team who said they had made a discovery. i believe this is keith bennett because no other youngster has been murdered and not found on that side of the moor. the skull shows that it is juvenile, um, which will put it in the region of the right age. the police say they are in the very early stages of their work. it will take some time to establish if human remains have been discovered and the moors have given up brady's secret at last. judith moritz, bbc

news, saddleworth. on sunday, brazilians go to the polls —— in the first round of presidential elections. these are being billed as the most important since the country returned to democracy in 19—89. the front—runner is former president, luiz inacio lula da silva, and current incumbent — jair bolsonaro — is trailing him by quite some margin. a warning that there is flash photography in this report from our south america correspondent katy watson in rio de janeiro. jet skis and jair. in beach loving brasil, this water parade has become a political statement unlike any other. "bolsonaro loves it, it's crazy," robson tells me. this week's wet weather hasn't dampen his enthusiasm for either the president or thejet ski. translation: brazil- is evolving, even better than

the us, a first world country. bolsonaro in favour of the family, security, anti—corruption and he supports health. ejet ski? ejet ski. he is convinced his candidate will win re—election despite the polls saying otherwise. but rio dejaneiro is a city of extremes, deep inequality and political division. nowhere more so than the country's biggest favela where hundreds of thousands of people are crammed in, overlooking the city's riches. here there is one clear winner. billed as a crooked politician his enemies, lula is remembered by this woman and her family as the man who made things better for the poor when he came to power 20 years ago. she shows me what little food she has in the house, living with her son and four otherfamily members. with no plumbing, she has

to wash her plates with rainwater in the bathroom. translation: i'm not gonna say that bolsonaro hasn't helped - but in the pandemic he didn't have a decent response to people who lost family so between him and lula, i prefer lula. he doesn't want war. we just want to live a quiet life with a decentjob allows us to live every day. the campaign has been personal. lula's has used bolsonaro's love of guns to offer a more peacefulfuture for this violent country. meanwhile, bolsonaro is a man accused of attacking democracy, he's long cast out of brazil's voting system and this week his party claimed, with no evidence, sunday's ballot could be fixed by government workers. these elections have been billed as the most important since brazil returned democracy in 1989. more than 30 years on, the very essence of democracy is still being debated, just showing how deeply

polarised this country is. for many here, they've given up on politics altogether. translation: we are going through a really| difficult times. we don't have money orjobs and politicians say so much but do very little. we are disillusioned. translation: i am voting for lula because out - of the two worst candidates i think the best will be lula. whoever wins will lead brazil down a very different paths but either road will be bumpy as hunger, poverty and insecurity continued to rise. katy watson, bbc news, rio dejaneiro. that vote coming up on sunday of course we will keep watch and a reminder of our top story. president biden has warned russia that it will not get away with seizing its neighbours land by force after vladimir putin announced the

annexation of four occupied regions of ukraine you can find that in all of our stories on her website. an atlantic weather front has swept across the uk. most of us had a spell of steady rain and gusty winds and now, in the wake of that weather front, we've sunshine and showers for this weekend and quite brisk winds as well, particularly around western areas. now, that low pressure will still drive our weather through the course of saturday and sunday. but here is that weather front it is now moving into let's look at the early hours. quite a few isobars here because the low pressure is still close by. well, just to the north west of us, that means gusty winds pushing in the showers in scotland and northern ireland and there will be a few elsewhere but predominantly clear spells early on saturday. temperatures will range from 7 in aberdeen to around 12 in the south and here's

the forecast for saturday itself and the picture remains more or less the same. brisk winds out towards the west and the occasional shower and some of them quite heavy in scotland and northern ireland, best of the weather the further east and south you are. temperatures will be around 19 in london for a time, for many of us in the northwest, closer to 1a or 15. now, sunday, another weather front is expected to brush southern parts of the uk and why�*s that important? well, we've got the london marathon on sunday and here's the thinking, the rain will probably reach southwestern parts of the uk earlier in the morning, and then it should reach london. it looks as though the rain will clear by the time we get to the afternoon. so, we will call it a wet start to the marathon and into the afternoon, things should dry out but there is uncertainty with regards to how quickly, around that you have a fine day on sunday. if you're wondering about monday, high pressure

is expected to build across england and wales, fine weather here with light winds and pleasant conditions and turning a bit warmer but in the northwest, we'll get closer to atlantic weather fronts and rain expected possibly northern ireland and quite likely in the western isles of scotland. here, the temperatures in the high teens and in scotland and northern ireland mid teens and here's the outlook next week it looks as though at times, the weather will be unsettled by those temperatures could reach 20 degrees in the south of the uk. have a good weekend.

this is bbc news. the headlines. president putin has announced for illegally seized regions of ukraine are now part of russia. in moscow, he warned the west that he would protect the west that he would protect the territory with all means of russia's disposal. the annexation is assigned sign that vladimir putin is struggling. hurricane ian has made landfall in the us and slamming south carolina with winds of around a0 km and officials there in georgia say that they're preparing for dangerous conditions. it struck florida on wednesday as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the us. police in

afghanistan say at least 20 people, most of them young women, have been killed and many more wounded in a suicide