this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. people take to the streets in celebration as the ukrainian city of kherson is retaken after months of occupation. the democrats are a step closer to retaining control of the us senate, as mark kelly is re—elected in arizona. the ethiopian military and tigrayan rebels sign an agreement to immediately implement a peace deal, that ends almost two years of fighting.

after russian troops pulled out of the city of kherson on friday. ukraine regained control of the southern city but there are reports that the kremlin�*s forces are making new fortifications on the left bank of the dnipro river. and russia has chosen a port city in southeast ukraine to be, what it calls, the temporary capital of the kherson region. fears have also been expressed after satellite images show significant new damage to a major dam in the area. the bbc�*s catherine byaruhanga sent this report from the capital, kyiv. this is the vital kakhovka dam 36 miles north of kherson. it's one of ukraine's biggest hydroelectric power plants.

under the cover of darkness, a massive explosion is unleashed. if the dam collapses, it could cause massive flooding and quickly swamp over 80 settlements, including kherson. images from friday morning show sections of the dam were destroyed. the bbc could not verify the extent of the damage or who caused it. over in kherson city, there have been emotional celebrations after ukrainian forces arrived. people here have lived under russian occupation for more than eight months. many are still without power, water or the internet. however, retreating russian forces still pose a threat from across the dnipro river. we have been warned yesterday by our general staff of the ukrainian armed forces that russians are making new fortifications on the left bank side of the dnipro river, and there is a likelihood

of massive artillery shelling. speaking at a southeast asia summit in cambodia this morning, ukraine's foreign minister warned that other countries could follow in russia's footsteps if action is not taken. violation of borders. use of force. committing mass atrocities against civilian population. if anyone in the world sees that russia can get away easily with all of this, then this someone will be tempted to follow suit. winning kherson has been a big boost for the national morale, but a complete victory over russia remains elusive. catherine byaruhanga, bbc news, kyiv. president zelensky commented reacting to kherson falling back into ukrainian control, but added lots of unexploded devices remain on the ground. translation: today we all feel

the elation together. _ i don't know if there is even one person who hasn't watched the video of our people in kherson meeting the ukrainian defenders. months of russian occupation, months of bullying our people, months of stories that russia is supposedly there forever, and still, there is a sea of ukrainian flags in the streets. as of this evening, the defence forces have established control of more than 60 settlements in the kherson region. the police have started measures of stabilisation. everywhere in the liberated territory, our explosive technicians have a lot of work to do. almost 2000 explosive items have already been removed, mines, streamers, and unexploded ammunition. that was president zelensky speaking earlier. lesia vasylenko is a ukrainian lawyer serving as a member

of the ukrainian parliment, as well as a member of the ukrainian permanent delegation to the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe — she's on her way back from brussels where she's been meeting with ukraine's european partners. thank you for taking the time to speak to us here on bbc news, you are very busy. you are on your way back from brussels, i wonder if you could share with us the latest developments there, what is the take from europe? any other support they have pledged? it is from europe? any other support they have pledged?— have pledged? it is really interesting _ have pledged? it is really interesting to _ have pledged? it is really interesting to observe - have pledged? it is really. interesting to observe now have pledged? it is really - interesting to observe now because over the past week that i was in paris and then in brussels, talking to different officials, the questions we heard a lot was whether ukraine would be ready to sit down for negotiations and what form these negotiations would need to take. sometimes, these questions were not just directed by the officials we were meeting, but they were definitely asked directly by the

media that i participated in conversations with. now, with kherson being retaken and with further advancements of the ukrainian military, well, pretty much all along the eastern front, i think these questions have completely been taken off the table, and it is clear that ukraine stands with what we had said from day one, from the 24th of february, that we are in debt for the win and that is the only option which ukraine has and also which the world has, if we want to have a long—standing pace and are stabilised relationship with russia. if we wanted, that ukraine must win. i russia. if we wanted, that ukraine must win. ., .., russia. if we wanted, that ukraine must win. ., . ., , must win. i wonder if i can clarify that point — must win. i wonder if i can clarify that point because _ must win. i wonder if i can clarify that point because it _ must win. i wonder if i can clarify that point because it is _ must win. i wonder if i can clarify that point because it is the - must win. i wonder if i can clarify that point because it is the first | that point because it is the first time we're hearing that european partners have been asked about the possibility of peace talks. are

saying, then, that discussion has been taken off the table by your european partners or by ukraine? i think that ukraine never actually considered this discussion to be on the table and this is what members of parliament like myself have been saying time and time again, that we would never consider anything, any negotiations until and unless the ukrainian territory would be de—occupied from russian forces. we have made it clear time and time again and i think the actions around kherson prove it again. fik. again and i think the actions around kherson prove it again.— kherson prove it again. 0k. let's turn to the _ kherson prove it again. 0k. let's turn to the latest _ kherson prove it again. 0k. let's turn to the latest development . kherson prove it again. 0k. let's turn to the latest development is kherson prove it again. 0k. let's i turn to the latest development is an kherson. a significant gain for ukraine but not an entirely safe area for those troops and the people who remained there. we're hearing that some of that area may have been seeded with mines. what that some of that area may have been seeded with mines.— that some of that area may have been seeded with mines. what more can you tell us about — seeded with mines. what more can you tell us about that? _ seeded with mines. what more can you tell us about that? it _ seeded with mines. what more can you tell us about that? it is _ seeded with mines. what more can you tell us about that? it is not _ seeded with mines. what more can you tell us about that? it is not a _ tell us about that? it is not a question of may, it definitely is seeded with mines. as is over 40% of

all of the territory of ukraine where russian forces have either held ground or held hostages and have been occupation or way, it has been going on. it will take years and years to demand these territories and make it safe from explosives and the remnants of different armaments. this is a fact. and despite that way today and over the next couple of days, we won't be in unity rejoicing at the victory and the ukrainian flag high —— flying high over the occupied areas, but still we must remain there is a lot of work to be done, first of all to clear out all the russian elements, some of the russian agents that, and maybe left over troops that, and maybe left over troops that are still present in the de—occupied cities. and the second thing is the long—term task of

clearing the area making it safe for the people to come back and for the people who live there to continue living there. people who live there to continue living there-— living there. and, finally, obviously _ living there. and, finally, obviously winter - living there. and, finally, obviously winter is - living there. and, finally, obviously winter is fast i obviously winter is fast approaching, hard winter, how worried as president zelensky and residents of kherson and the troops who were based there as well about russia retaliating soon? weill. who were based there as well about russia retaliating soon?— russia retaliating soon? well, the truth is that _ russia retaliating soon? well, the truth is that in _ russia retaliating soon? well, the truth is that in winter _ russia retaliating soon? well, the truth is that in winter time, - russia retaliating soon? well, the truth is that in winter time, as - russia retaliating soon? well, the truth is that in winter time, as the truth is that in wintertime, as the minus temperatures set in, it is going to be hard for the russian troops to make the offensives and to really go on the attacking side, so what we are concerned about a new train is that the russian troops will be digging themselves in, meaning that after winter and spring time, it will be harderfor the ukrainian army to kick them out from the territory of ukraine, where they will have reinforced their stay in

their strongholds. so, this is why their strongholds. so, this is why the ukrainian military are so interested and so eager in making critical and dynamic advances right now, as we speak, in the next coming days. we are not even talking wigs any more because we have the weather forecast are coming in and saying that as of november, it is likely that as of november, it is likely that temperatures will drop to minus and that winter will be coming coming on fast.— much for that update, thank you. thank you. the anonymous street artist banksy has confirmed that he's been at work, in parts of ukraine that have been ravaged by the war. he's posted images on his instagram account of a mural, on a building damaged by shelling, in the town of borodyanka, west of kyiv. it features a gymnast doing a handstand. various murals in banksy�*s signature, spray—painted style, have been spotted around the capital in recent days.

the us democrats now need just one more seat to keep their control of the senate, after the democratic senator for arizona, the former astronaut, mark kelly, beat his republican rival for his seat in the us congress. blake masters' defeat means the two parties now have 49 seats each in the senate. there are two races still to call — georgia and nevada. in his first speech since the results were announce, mr kelly celebrated his victory with his supporters in pheonix. now, after a long election, it can be tempting to remain focused on the things that divide us. but we have seen the consequences that come when leaders refuse to accept the truth and focus more

on conspiracies of the past than solving the challenges that we face today. the ethiopian government and tigrayan forces have signed an agreement which lays out the road map for the implementation of a truce. the warring sides reached the peace deal following intense talks in south africa earlier this month. disarmament is set to begin on tuesday, whilst the provision of much needed humanitairan aid will be put into effect immediately. our correspondent anne soy has the latest. the deal that has just been signed here today breaks down how the deal that was signed previously in pretoria will be implemented. key among them is the disarmament of the rebels in tigray, and the parties have agreed that they will form a joint body to oversee that. it is likely to be a very delicate issue because the question is, who will move first? however, importantly, the parties have agreed here today that aid will start moving to the north tigray and neighbouring

regions immediately. people are in desperate need of food and medicine and that is a major step that has been taken today. however, people on the ground will be waiting to see we are going to catch up with all the sports now. it is the final weekend of games in the english premier league before the men's football world cup starts. left out of the england squad, ivan toney scored two as brentford

in some ways, i don't know what to say, i could really speak to the players, we spoke after and after the game because it is such a big result, it is may be the biggest result, it is may be the biggest result in the club history, going here to the etihad against may be the best team in the world, full strength they came with, missed four or five in the starting line—up, thatis or five in the starting line—up, that is mind blowing in every aspect. that is mind blowing in every asect. f , . that is mind blowing in every asect. ., ., ,�* , ., aspect. city's defeat means arsenal moved five points _ aspect. city's defeat means arsenal moved five points clear _ aspect. city's defeat means arsenal moved five points clear at - aspect. city's defeat means arsenal moved five points clear at the - aspect. city's defeat means arsenal moved five points clear at the top l moved five points clear at the top of the table if they beat walls. they are in the last 20 minutes of that match and arsenal do have a one nil lead over woloves. newcastle beat chelsea 1—0 to make it five league wins in a row. and nathan jones's first game

it five league wins in a row. and nathanjones's first game in charge of southampton and that in defeat. to rugby league and samoa are into their first men's rugby league world cup final after beating england. and they did it in dramatic fashion. tommy makinson�*s penalty for england tied the match at 26—all at the emirates stadium in london. that meant the match went to a golden point and samoa's stephen crichton was the man who finally separated the two teams. his drop—goal meant that it will be his samoa side that meet australia in the world cup final next saturday. there was heartbreak for england's women at the rugby union world cup as they lost to new zealand in a nail—biting final — a repeat of the 2017 final. the match at eden park was watched by a record crowd of 42,500 where the red roses made a strong start and were leading at half time but at the final whistle the score was 34—31 to the

defending champions. england saw out much of the match with ia players after losing wing lydia thompson for a high tackle in the 18th minute and new zealand used their advantage to win their sixth world cup. the ball came out, we knew ourjob butjust for the ball came out, we knew ourjob but just for belief the ball came out, we knew ourjob butjust for belief in us, they did amazing. when the final whistle bloke, i think ijust cried a little bit, looked at the crowd, ran to a few of the girls, gave some hikes, eight of a surreal feeling to be able to do that at home, to be able to do that for the whole team, for the black ferns, and for the nations. plenty of men's rugby union today, with five autumn internationals. and there was a real shock as italy beat australia for the first time. ange capoozo scored two tries in a memorable 28—27 win.

world number ones ireland beat fiji 35—17. england recovered from losing to argentina last week by beating japan 52—13. wales beat argentina 20—13. and france are playing south africa at the moment and it's the french who lead 19—13 in the second half. they lead 2019. —— south africa led by 20—19. here in the uk, spending cuts of about £35 billion and plans to raise some 20 billion in tax, in the coming years are expected to be set out in thursday's autumn statement. our political correspondent, ben wright, has been giving us more details about what we could expect. i think it will be the defining political and economic moment of rishi sunak�*s government. the consequences and the legacy of this will last for years, in terms of taxes and public

spending. and we know that the size of the fiscal hole that it is called, the gap between what the government spends and what it is getting in in taxes, the government reckons it is about £55 billion a year, so they are the raw sums that the chancellor is dealing with. and he has already warned of eye—wateringly difficult choices as he approaches this statement. now, we won't know, of course, the exact details about the plan until the chancellor stands up on thursday but sources close to the spreadsheets are giving us some sense of what is likely to be in this plan. on taxes, i mean, the government does not want to put up taxes directly but there is a way of raising a lot more revenue from all of us by freezing tax thresholds where they currently are, so the more people earn as their wages go up, if the tax thresholds are frozen, then they end up paying more, and that can provide billions of pounds to the treasury, and we think that tax thresholds will be frozen across the board. sources are also indicating that the highest—paid could start paying the top rate,

45p, when they earn £125,000 a year. the current rate at the moment, that kicks in at 150,000, but that threshold could come down to 125,000. so, a lot of money, i think, that the government is hoping to raise on the tax front. when it comes to public spending, we expect a freeze to continue, in terms of departmental budgets, until at least 2025. now, everybody will know that public services are under a massive strain at the moment. inflation is eating away at their spending power so a freeze to public spending will have quite an impact. twitter has halted its new $8 blue tick subscription in a u—turn by the social media platform's new billionaire owner elon musk. it comes as a number of accounts impersonating big brands received the blue tick which was previously a signal that the firm had verified the user as being real. the firm's shares fell 4%

on friday amid the confusion. joining us now is technology reporter, takara small, who is in toronto. hello, there. so, this is the latest step in the twitter saga, how is this u—turn being viewed? positive, negative, cardy u—turn again? oh, we cannot pay you. no. no, i'll i am so sorry but we don't have your microphone live. so we can't hear you. we will hopefully come back to you. we will hopefully come back to you in a moment, we will hopefully come back to you in a moment, we will hopefully re—establish the sound on that, don't go away, thank you.

the bbc has calculated that the number of people who've crossed the channel in small boats this year has now surpassed 40,000 — the biggest number since records began in 2018. just over 28,000 people made the same journey last year. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford has the latest. when the small boats crossings started in 2018, the number in the first year was less than 300. but if you look at this graphic, you can see that each year it's gone up and up again and up again. and as you say, last year it reached 28,500. well, by last night, we werejust less than 100 short of 40,000. and talking to witnesses and to rescuers today, it's clear that more than 100 have crossed since midnight last night. so that red line has gone over 40,000. and, of course, we're only in mid—november and last year, around 8000 crossed in the last two months of the year. so it's likely that the figure by the end of the year is going to be closer to 50,000 than 40,000 if the weather stays good. it's very, very awkward for ministers, not least of all,

because it makes them look as if they're not in control of the southern coast of the united kingdom, but also because of the risk of people dying. it was only in november last year that 27 people died in a single night when boats got into trouble on the channel. and yes, there's more talks going on with the french to try and increase patrols on the beaches, maybe put some british officers into the french control rooms. but that's not going to make a massive amount of difference to the people crossing in the short term. and, yes, while the weather's been bad for the last couple of weeks, ministers have managed to reduce the number of people being held in the manston processing centre. but as the weather's gone good again, those numbers are going to start to rise again. and they've only managed to get those numbers down by putting people out into hotels. and, of course, people are very concerned about the millions of pounds being spent every day on keeping migrants in hotels.

divers from a documentary crew have found a large piece of wreckage from the space shuttle challenger which explosded on lift off back in 1986. the discovery off the eastern coast of florida marks the first time in 25 years that a piece of the challenger has been located. naomi choy smith reports. so, what do you think this is, jim? this was the moment divers made an incredible discovery off cape canaveral. it is definitely an aircraft. i think we need to talk to nasa. a 20—foot section from the space shuttle challenger, which exploded after launch in 1986. divers were hunting for the wreckage of a world war ii aircraft as part of a history channel documentary, but what they unearthed instead left them stunned. we were not expecting that. it was a total accidental discovery and one we were not prepared for at the time and we were all stunned by it. the challenger�*s distinctive heat

tiles mostly hidden under sand. nasa says this is one of the largest pieces of the wreckage they have ever found. mission control: ten, nine, eight, seven... the challenger broken apart after liftoff from kennedy space center, killing all seven crew members on board. ..and liftoff. it was one of the worst disasters in the history of the us space programme. pieces of the shuttle were recovered from the ocean after the accident. then a decade later, some sections washed up following a storm. that was in 1996, the last time parts of the challenger were discovered, until now. the discovery of this piece was mixed emotions. first reflecting back to the loss of our colleagues and our heroes, but also is a sense of discovery to find something lost for so long once again found. nasa is still debating whether to retrieve this wreckage, but says it is a poignant reminder

of difficult lessons learned from tragedy. naomi choy smith, bbc news. what a fascinating story. we are just going to remind you of our top story today. the ukrainian government says recapturing the city of kherson means victory in the war against russia is �*only a matter of time'. ukraine regained control of the southern city after russian troops were pulled out of the region on friday. ukraine's president, volodymyr zelensky, says russia destroyed all of kherson�*s critical infrastructure before its troops abandoned the city on friday. it was left with no heat, electricity, water supply or communications. a curfew has been declared in the city. and reports also of some of the territory around kherson being

seeded with mines. you can get in touch with me. stay with us. we will have more news at the top of the hour. hello. it is unusually warm across the united kingdom at the moment. yesterday was the warmest armistice day on record. and, tomorrow for remembrance sunday, we may see very similar temperatures once again. and it's notjust warm by day, but also by night. our overnight temperatures are looking fairly similar to the figures we had more typically see during the day at this time of year. so this is what we'd normally expect in terms of november highs, ten or 11 degrees. and this is the forecast for sunday. you can see for many areas, we're looking at at least six or seven degrees above average. so heading through this evening and overnight, we'll continue to sit in relatively warm air thanks to the southerly winds carrying that air our way from a long way south

in the atlantic. i think we'll see some cloud filling in across eastern england once again and some mist and fog closing in on the north sea coast. but a lot of fine weather overnight and here are the overnight lows. and you can see they actually look a lot like the daytime highs that we should be seeing at this time of year throughout remembrance sunday. i think it will stay fine across the uk, but it could be rather cloudy certainly to start across central and eastern areas. some of the cloud will burn off through the morning, but i think some of the north sea coasts may remain rather overcast. you'll notice it's getting windier towards the west by the end of the day. we'll also see some rain, i thinkjust after dark getting into northern ireland and the far southwest. but there are the temperatures 16, 17, 18, maybe even 19, somewhere in the south east of england for the start of the new week. for the start of the new week,

however, we do start to pick up a more westerly feed of weather. is this area of high pressure across the continent gives way? we start to bring in a more mixed air mass from the atlantic. so it will be a mixture of some arctic air and atlantic air, and that is going to mean the result for the week ahead is that our temperatures are going to ease back down, eventually, closer to average values, but through the middle part of the week, tuesday, wednesday, early hours of thursday, some very strong winds to contend with, particularly across western and southernmost reaches of the uk. and as those areas of low pressure go through, there will be some spells of heavier rain too for the end of the week. it is looking quieter and you can see quite a difference in our temperatures.

this is bbc world news, the headlines ukraine's government says victory in the war against russia is only a matter of time, after the recapture of kherson. russian forces completed a withdrawal from the city on friday. further talks between senior commanders from the ethiopian military and tigrayan rebels have ended with the signing of a deal to implement a recently agreed cessation of hostilities. the democrats have moved a step closer to retaining control of the us senate, as mark kelly is re—elected in arizona. only two states — georgia and nevada — are yet to be declared after tuesday's mid—term election.