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this is bbc news. i'm kasia madera with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. crowds cheer ukrainian troops as they enter kherson after russia's retreat — the city had been occupied by russia since march. there are celebrations across ukraine — including the capital, kyiv. russian forces have retreated from the first regional capital, the on regional capital to fall into its hands. this war isn't over, but this is a significant victory and a significant reversalfor russia. cheering turned away by italy, now landing in france — a migrant rescue ship carrying 230 people causes a diplomatic
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row between the two nations. one of the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, ftx, has gone bust and its chief executive has resigned. and britain's oldest amateurfilm making club — how bradford's movie makers are finally getting the red carpet treatment themselves it's been hailed as an historic day by the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky. russia has withdrawn its troops from the city of kherson — the only regional capital they'd managed to take since they invaded ukraine in february. thousands of russian troops have retreated across the dnipro river — leaving the way open for ukrainian special forces to enter the centre of kherson. our international editor
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jeremy bowen is in odesa following developments. chanting. kherson�*s residents emerged from their homes as the first ukrainian soldiers reached the main square. for them, it's the end of more than eight months under occupation. plenty to celebrate, but they are not out of danger. russia's guns are only a few miles away across the river. as they left, russian engineers blew a section of the antonovsky bridge over the dnipro. at dawn long lines of russian troops seemed to be using a temporary crossing under the main damaged structure. the russian claim is that 30,000 soldiers and more than 5,000 pieces of equipment left kherson before the bridges were blown.
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the ukrainian forces pushed forward. the final russian departure happened much faster than anyone expected. we received these pictures from a special forces unit, taken as they poked around a camp the russians had abandoned. here, at least, this retreat looks better organised than some of russia's others in ukraine. that's because, apart from a few dozen shells, most of what they left was rubbish and not equipment ukraine can use against them. president zelensky told ukrainians that this was an historic day — they were taking their country back. cheering. the people of kherson kept the liberation party going. what's happened deepens the ukrainian conviction that they can beat russia. ukrainians can
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celebrate tonight. there'll be harder times ahead. jeremy bowen, bbc news, in ukraine. there've been celebrations in kyiv over the liberation of kherson. 0ur chief international correspondent lyse doucet is there. this is the mood here in the centre of kyiv tonight. a night of celebration of what president zelensky describes as an historic day. look at the banners they are holding here, "kherson is ukraine" written in the colours of the ukrainian flag. they have been singing here for hours, singing popular songs like this, singing the ukrainian national anthem. this is the most significant victory for ukrainian forces in some time and certainly one of the most significant reversals for the russians. president zelensky says ukrainian forces are now joining its special units in the centre of kherson. we have spoken to people tonight who believe that moments like this are bringing the end of the war closer, bringing them closer to the victory they have always
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believed was possible. but this war is far from over. this is a city which is suffering from power cuts because of russian strikes on the energy infrastructure. it also suffers from russian attacks. and the concern is that with this humiliation yet again for president putin's forces, it is just a matter of time before he strikes again. but that is not on the mind of these celebrations tonight. 0ur russia editor, steve rosenberg, says removing his troops from kherson is not much of a blow for president putin — according to russian media. russian officials are not calling this a retreat, they are calling it a re—deplane into, end, a manoeuvre, trying to play
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things down a little bit. but that does not alter the fact that this was a withdrawal from the on the ukrainian provincial capital that the russians managed to capture since february, and it came just a few weeks after president putin had declared that kherson had become part of russia forever. so, yes, this is embarrassing, i think, for vladimir putin. it is a blow to the russian president, which is probably why the kremlin has been trying to distance him from the decision to retreat because it knows that the pull—back will be seen as a setback by many people in russia. it doesn't want the president taking the flak. that is why the russian generals had to go on television earlier this week. it was left to them to announce this withdrawal to the russian people. at the end of the day, who is the commander—in—chief in russia? it is vladimir putin. whose idea was it to invade ukraine? vladimir putin. so it is hard to imagine that at some point, vladimir putin want be caught up in the consequences of and the fallout from the war,
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whatever those may be. so how significant is russia's withdrawalfrom russia? a question i put to keir giles, author of a forthcoming book entitled "russia's war on everybody". it's symbolic. it's not the only major city that russia has held. let's not forget the siege of mariupol early in the year. the problem of grace is that russia has realised long ago that it will not win this war on the battlefield. as you heard from your correspondence earlier, the war is not over by a long way because russia is looking for alternative ways of winning it, realising that it is on the back foot with the face of this ukrainian offensive. that's the reason why russia is hammering ukraine's economy and its power infrastructure to help make sure that its people cannot live through this winter. that's why it's trying any means possible to slip away that western support
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and backing that is keeping ukraine in the fight. itjust makes it all the more important to support ukraine so that it can continue functioning as a state while russia is doing its best to stop it. if these kind of withdrawals are taking place, does that mean they are looking at more serious attacks? we have in the past spoken about this idea of potential using nuclear weapons. is that something that is still very much possibly in the back of president putin's mind? no doubt it will be in the back of his mind, but it doesn't seem to be at the front of the moment. we don't think it ever was. there is a big difference between what president clinton was threatening with this nuclear rhetoric and what —— president putin, and what he thinks nuclear weapons are really far. and since those threats have become less effective, they stopped being used. once the west has finally got wise to the fact that president putin throws around nuclear threats but they are empty, they stopped coming out so often.
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we saw a brief attempt at a ukrainian dirty bomb a few weeks ago, but that was slapped down as soon as it appeared so russia did not pursue that any further. yes, they would look for ways of pressuring ukraine, they will look for ways for pressuring other countries to reduce their support for ukraine. nuclear weapons are a long way off. we obviously don't know what is going on in president putin's mind, but when you are working on your book, it will be it will be published soon, russia's war on everybody, you are looking at this drive that russia has in terms of trying to take control of everything. what is that drive? that's exactly right. the book is not about what's happening in ukraine, although, obviously, that is the most tragic and shocking example of what russia tries to do. it is more about the covid war of power and influence across the rest of the world and how it affects ordinary people around the world. we have seen russia unable to step away from this idea that it has to be a great power and that means it has to have power and control over other countries beyond its borders. the immediate victim being ukraine but russia's aim being so much broader than that.
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it is something which russia has simply not been able to learn is not suitable for europe and the 21st century and so it still continues to push for that power and doing damage wherever it possibly can. how much of that drive is president putin and how much is it the kremlin? how much, i guess, is it responsibility ofjust one person? unfortunately, as we see from this widespread report of russia and ukraine, it's notjust president putin and it's notjust the inner circle around him. what president putin does taps into very deep needs and urges in the russian population because they have been told for so long that russia is a great power. great in that very specific russian sense of being able to harm others, earning respect in a russian sense of fear rather than respect for something that you have achieved as you might think and other countries. it's a very specific and very backward sense
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of what it is that the world owes russia and how russia should be able to take if it feels it has not been given. giorgia meloni, the new italian prime minister, has criticised france in a row over the handling of a migrant rescue ship — the vessel had been refused entry into italy. france allowed the ship to dock in toulon and warned that there would be severe consequences for relations with italy. mark lowen reports from rome. arriving into safe harbour, but sailing into a diplomatic crisis between france and italy, the ocean viking, which rescued migrants coming from libya, but whom italy refused to take in. and so france agreed to welcome the ship instead. the migrants on board had been blocked for days. italy finally allowed three other vessels to dock, declaring france would take this one. but it seems paris hadn't agreed — seeing italy's announcement as a way of forcing a deal, behaviour it called reprehensible.
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translation: many | people were very sick. italy has been very inhumane in handling the situation. the italian authorities were not professional. they left this boat there for 20 days without making any decisions. italy's new prime minister, giorgia meloni, hit back. the country has long argued it unfairly bears the migration burden. but there's also domestic politics here, with a far right leader wanting to please her base. translation: i was struck by the aggressive reaction l from the french government, which, from my point of view, is incomprehensible and unjustified. what exactly makes them so angry that italy must be the only possible port of disembarkation for migrants in the mediterranean? i don't think that's right. some on board had to be flown to a french hospital. italy says almost 90,000
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migrants have arrived here this year while the ocean viking is the first ngo boat france has accepted. but the french far right still seized the moment, condemning president macron�*s move. translation: he makes people believe that he is opposed - to massive and illegal immigration, when in reality he is its defender, its promoter, and if i may say so, this act, this decision that has just been taken is the greatest symbol of it. this was the moment the migrants heard they'd be allowed into france after a treacherous journey and days blocked at sea. the latest pawns in the migration battle dividing the eu. theirjourney for now may be over, but the storm between two eu allies is whipping up. mark lowen, bbc news, rome. president biden has told the cop27 climate summit that he wants to re—establish the us as a reliable global leader on tackling climate change. he said he's committed to the target of halving us
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and he apologised for his predecessor donald trump pulling out of the paris climate accord. our climate editorjustin rowlatt sent this report from sharm el sheik. another hurricane smashed into florida today, yet more wild weather for the us. it has endured heat waves and wildfires, and some epic floods. as president biden arrived in the egyptian desert, he claimed his climate policies will drive down emissions and transform the us. we are proving that good climate policy is good economic policy. it is a strong foundation for durable, resilient, inclusive economic growth. it is driving progress in the private sector. around the world. nancy, have you got a moment to speak to the bbc? the american mid—term election results were better for the president's party than some pundits predicted. we are less than - a minute away, ma'am.
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but the democrats still look likely to lose control of the house of representatives. oh, there you are. yes! the house speaker says she hopes the republicans will become more cooperative on climate. we didn't get one republican vote but i would hope that when they have more responsibility and more opportunity, they will take responsibility. # why can't you see... but losing the house will make it difficult for the us to come up with cash for international climate action. the poorest developing countries are often hit hardest by climate change, like south sudan, where a drought is adding to the chaos of war. they say the us isn't paying its fair share. we want the us to be on board. we want to be all together. all countries have to be on board. that may be but the us and china have stopped cooperating on tackling global warming. this is china's pavilion
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at the conference. it now talks about competing with the us on climate. it wants to keep its lead on renewable technologies like wind turbines, solar panels and batteries. the us uses similar language. it talks about overtaking china on clean tech, but this could be good news. it could mean cheaper renewables and maybe even generate a rush to find finance for developing nations. as president biden leaves egypt tonight, the hope is superpower competition on climate could bring progress. justin rowlatt, bbc news, egypt. the cryptocurrency platform ftx has gone bust and its chief executive sam bankman—fried has resigned. worries about ftx have caused huge problems for crypto investors recently, ftx is one of the biggest and has gone under despite attempts by another huge exchange, binance, to rescue it.
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i'm joined now by our reporter tom brada. how has this all happened? notjust a fall from grace for the company — writes, for a full context, they are at the second biggest crypto exchange in the world. what a crypto exchange is it's essentially where people will get access to the crypto world, the world of crypto currency, so you take the currency that you do have, whether that is euros, dollars, pounds, you exchange that for the equivalent value of whichever of the crypto currencies that you choose and there are thousands of them out there. to be blunt, this has been a terrible year for investment and crypto currencies. the value has been fluctuating massively. with all of that going on, ftx has actually been seen as something is a safe bet. it's been pretty stable. but not any longer i'm afraid. in the past few days, there were some reports spreading that its finances where not on
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the stable ground, and as a result, there was a run on the exchange and that is pretty semi to a run—on a bank. lots of people desperately trying to get their money out as quickly as possible. injust21i hours, around $5 billion was taken out. this is a huge problem for the company which did not have that money, frankly. there was even an attempt, like you mentioned, a bailout by the world's biggest crypto exchange, binance, that didn't work, and now we finally reach this last resort moment where ftx has filed for bankruptcy and there are now going to be thousands upon thousands upon thousands of customers who are really worried about whether they are going to see their money again. {iii they are going to see their money again-— they are going to see their money again. of course, the customers — money again. of course, the customers are _ money again. of course, the customers are absolutely - customers are absolutely crucial to remember them, but it's notjust the customers, but the exchange itself and its ceo. he is a high—profile. he ceo. he is a high-profile. he is reall ceo. he is a high—profile. he: is really well—known himself, the menu mentioned in the beginning, sam brinkman, he is only 30 years old. he is not too long in this world, but
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he's already made an enormous impact and has been seen as a bit of a rock star in the crypto currency world, frankly. and he'd even been compared to warren buffett and often sat before panels and sat before regulators and been seen as the spokesperson for the industry. i'm afraid, again, that reputation no longer stands and it's pretty much in tatters and his ftx empire has essentially collapsed. just to give you a sense of the scale of that, back on monday as recently as monday, it was estimated he was right around $15 billion whereas now emma bloomberg is estimating he's worth just $3. a massive change in his fortunes there. he has been quite outspoken about what's been going on for the past few days. i should been going on for the past few days. ishould be been going on for the past few days. i should be able to show you a tweet. he wrote in that tweet... he has been taking and acknowledging responsibility.
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it doesn't matter how sorry he is. he is no longer the man at the top. he's been replaced by a veteran lawyer called john the top. he's been replaced by a veteran lawyer called joth ray the third who is now the ceo of ftx. time, thank you very much for talking the rest all of that. thank you. a court in scotland has ruled that a man who claimed he was a victim of mistaken identity is the suspect in a series of sex crimes in the united states. the us authorities say that nicholas rossi had multiple aliases and had faked his own death before going on the run to escape prosecution. this report from our scotland correspondent lorna gordon. nicholas rossi, a fugitive facing serious allegations of rape and sexual assault in america. he's told a shifting story in a changing accent about his identity, insisting he has a different name, is from ireland and has never been to the united states.— and has never been to the
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united states. this is my wife. coveraue united states. this is my wife. coverage you _ united states. this is my wife. coverage you can _ united states. this is my wife. coverage you can count - united states. this is my wife. coverage you can count on. . united states. this is my wife. coverage you can count on. in | coverage you can count on. in the coverage you can count on. the us, coverage you can count on. in the us, where rossi is wanted by the authorities committee hearing which has veered into the fantastical has been making headlines. in court this week and the 35—year—old claimed there was a plot to frame him, alleging tattoos matching those on rossi were given to him while lying unconscious of covid in the glasgow hospital, insisting police mugshots are doctored and fingerprints falsified. thejudge who had to decide on his true identity said these claims were implausible and fanciful. i am ultimately — implausible and fanciful. i am ultimately satisfied _ implausible and fanciful. i am ultimately satisfied on - implausible and fanciful. i am ultimately satisfied on the - ultimately satisfied on the balance of probabilities that he is indeed nicholas rossi, the person stopped for extradition by the united states. 3 extradition by the united states. �* ., ., extradition by the united states. ., ., ., states. a woman rossi was found uuil of states. a woman rossi was found guilty of assaulting _ states. a woman rossi was found guilty of assaulting while - states. a woman rossi was found guilty of assaulting while a - guilty of assaulting while a student in ohio described him as ajekyll and student in ohio described him as a jekyll and hyde character, as a jekyll and hyde character, a liar. , , , ., as a jekyll and hyde character, aliar. , , , ., ., ~ a liar. his eyes, that dark hair, the _ a liar. his eyes, that dark hair, the hands, - a liar. his eyes, that dark hair, the hands, you - a liar. his eyes, that dark i hair, the hands, you know, i remember those hands. they assaulted me. they violated me. timmy... i didn't have a doubt.
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he is trying to full everybody and i am glad so many people see through it.— see through it. rossi denies committing _ see through it. rossi denies committing the _ see through it. rossi denies committing the sexual - see through it. rossi denies i committing the sexual crimes that he is accused of in the united states. do you accept the light? fees have been — do you accept the light? fees have been legal— do you accept the light? fees have been legal risk - have been legal risk proceedings that rossi with extraordinary games and eccentric behaviour has attempted to turn into a circus. there's been more twists in this than in many works of fiction. described by the judges as a flight risk, rossi was denied bail. a full extradition hearing to decide whether he can face trial in america will take place next year. it's thought they're britain's oldest amateur film—making club — the bradford movie makers have been going since 1932. now they're finally getting a bit of the limelight themselves.
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a documentary about the group has made it to the big screen to rave reviews. our arts correspondent, david sillito, went along to meet them. they are a group of keen amateurfilm—makers. the bradford movie makers, they have been making films since 1932 with lots of enthusiasm, but not a lot of success. however, things have changed. i would like to remake oklahoma where i am riding a white stallion. the film a bunch of amateurs is a documentary about the club. it tells the story of people like harry... # oh, what a beautiful morning...#. ..here doing his version of oklahoma. and the documentary has been getting rave reviews. harry has been all over.
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you've been to bafta. i've been to bafta, i've been to london twice in this last week. are you getting used to the showbusiness lifestyle? colin has been a member for more than 50 years and this is his first premiere. this is more my line, you know. it's cine, you know. oh, it's dropped out again. this is a special day for you. yeah, oh, yeah. i'm looking forward to it, yeah. but this is about more than just a hobby. a lot of the members are carers. the idea of the film began whenjoe, a disability support volunteer, posted a message online about loneliness and isolation. you talk about very personal things in this, depression. oh, yeah, i've had that for many years, for my sins. in filming i can actually show
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the story of my life on film if i wanted. i think what happens in this film, we are all going to get old, we are all going to be looking for something to do with our minds, we are all going to be looking for a community, we may lose our loved ones, and i think this club is like an amazing alternative family. it's five, everybody. and then there is the main event, the hometown gala premiere. in 90 years of movie—making, there have been no glamorous premieres, many ups and downs, so today for the bradford movie makers it's quite a moment. applause. david sillitoe, bbc news, bradford.
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the bradford movie maker getting there read carpet to moment. get in touch via twitter. it would be lovely to hear from you. twitter. it would be lovely to hearfrom you. goodbye. hello. this exceptionally mild weather is producing some remarkable temperatures — 19.5 degrees celsius in lancashire on friday, 19.1 at lossiemouth in murray. so, what's going on? we've got a big dip in thejet stream to the west of the uk and it's around the base of this dip are drawing up close to the azores, some of this exceptionally mild airourway. so temperatures are so far above average for the time of year. in fact, on thursday night, provisionally, according to the met office, both scotland and northern ireland had their warmest november nights on record. and of course, climate change is notjust about those big headline grabbing daytime temperatures, it's how far we keep warmth overnight as well. very windy on friday across northern areas and yet more rain in the highlands.
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in fact, taggart since monday has had 258 millimetres of rain, some months worth of rain in a week. a lot of that rain has gone this weekend keeping the very mild weather. not as windy, though, and that does increase the risk of seeing some mist and some fog and actually a cooler start to the day for saturday, in fact. and the clear skies in northeast scotland, low single figures in some spots, six or seven degrees in east anglia with a lot of low cloud and messiness across a large part of wales and england. northern ireland seeing some overnight rain clearing away as that trundles north across scotland. behind it will brighten up, though, still the clouds thick enough in a few spots for a bit of drizzle. some eastern parts of england may stay with some low cloud, whereas for much of england and wales will turn sunny. a cooler day, but still very mild for scotland, northern
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ireland, northern england through much of england and for wales we're talking 16 to 18 degrees celsius. and yes, those lighter winds allowing more in the way of low cloud and mist and fog to form as we go overnight and into sunday morning, thick enough for some drizzle in places, particularly through eastern scotland, central and eastern parts of england, a milder start to the day on sunday. so for remembrance sunday, then a grey, misty, murky start in many places. and although for many places it will brighten up and get to see some sunshine. there'll be some spots from eastern scotland and down through central and eastern parts of england that could well hold on to some gray conditions, maybe quite widely into yorkshire. another very mild day out there, wind freshening in the west and rain to northern ireland as we go on into the evening. and the main feature of the weather for the week ahead is the temperatures are going to come down much closer to average spells of strong winds and heavy rain at times.
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this is bbc news. the latest headlines... crowds have cheered ukrainian troops as they entered kherson after russia's retreat. the city had been occupied by russia since march. it's been hailed as an historic day by the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky. thousands of russian troops have retreated across the dnipro river. a ship with 230 migrants on board, which was refused entry to italy, has docked in france as a row between the two countries deepens. giorgia meloni, the new italian prime minister, has criticised france over the handling of the migrant rescue ship, the ocean viking. president biden has told the cop27 climate summit
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