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theyjust want to protect him. they want to look after him. and they want to do everything they can to just help us get through this. is it really that bad? yes. the children have just really thought about how it must feel for oliver at the moment. we've got such amazing examples of youngsters today and what they're able to achieve. no head shaving for you, but a lovely pink do. thank you very much. i got up very early to do this. yeah. after ten minutes or so, the cuts were complete. applause. they've supported me through all of this and i think they were just brave to do it. so you're feeling good now, boys? yep, yep. bit cold on my head, but. and how do you think you'll look now? like me. and that's good, isn't it? yeah. unless, of course, parents take the wrong children i home after school.
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with that, it was time to reveal the latest oliver's army fundraising total, which is now past £17,000. cheering. ian haslam, bbc news. and we are all showing solidarity with all the pro. —— with all of her. time for a look at the weather — here's stav denaos. we could see disruptive further from wednesday onwards, stay tuned to the forecast. today and tomorrow we're pretty sure of where the snow showers will fall across northern coastal parts of the uk. area of low pressure driving to get southwards affecting the northern half of the country at the moment and you can see the wintry showers right now across the northern half of scotland and for northern ireland, northern england as we push towards the end of the day. this kite will brighten
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but they will be colder. the southern half of the country sees a cloudy and grey afternoon with outbreaks of light and patchy rain and it will be rain at this point because temperatures in the south from 6—8 , further north it is freezing, factor in the wind and it will feel colder. plenty of snow affecting northern coasts tonight with an ice risk. the rain the south will push south but as the cold air dates in we could see wintry showers over the south wales and southern england higher ground and maybe tomorrow morning so bear that in mind for the morning commute. it looks like the band of cloud and rain should clear south, skies will brighten tomorrow but it will be a much cold today, pretty much across the board, away from the very far south—west. factor in the wind, it will feel sub zero across northern areas and here we continue to see snow showers, coastal northern ireland, north and east scotland and
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north of england. tuesday night very cold, we could be down to minus double digits across scotland where there is lying snow and the question midweek, we start to get a battle of air masses, and with mild atlantic to the south, a weather front slowly pushing into the cold air and this pushing into the cold air and this pushing into the cold air it gives us a headache. at the moment we can see some rain in there, perhaps disruptive snow in the south and south—west later in the day on wednesday, stay tuned, further north it is cold but right with sunny spells and some wintry showers and then the risk of disruptive snow in then the risk of disruptive snow in the south starts to trundle north as we push towards the end of the week. questions over when and where this will arrive so stay tuned to the forecast and head online to see all the latest details. stav, thank you. that's it.
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now on bbc one, let'sjoin our news teams where you are. have a very good afternoon. good afternoon, i'm gavin ramjaun. it'sjust 1.30, and this is your latest sports news. let's start with that astonishing game in the already won the series to nil district zero, but ijust the already won the series to nil district zero, but i just won the toss, and decided to bat. they reached 246 all out, with the top score of 75. the 18—year—old in england squad, became the youngest man to play the one day squad for england. he struggled in their reply, all out for 180 -- 180 —— six. england's rehan ahmed, among the wickets — the 18 year becoming the youngest man to play one—day
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cricket for england. some sad news to bring you — a blackpool fan has died after supporters clashed following the match against burnley on saturday. 55—year—old tonyjohnson was found with a serious head injury outside a bar on the promenade in blackpool, lancashire police have said. in a statement, blackpool football club said they were "deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the news that supporter, tonyjohnson, tragically lost his life earlier this morning". all of the thoughts of everyone at the football club go out to tony's family and friends. rest in peace, tony". the club are opening a book of condolence at the ground, later today. let's start with that astonishing game in the premier league yesterday, where liverpool blew away rivals manchester united. it finished 7—0. and marked liverpool's biggest ever win over their rivals, as they put themselves firmly in the race for a top four finish.
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andy mitten, the editor of the manchester united fanzine united we stand joins me now. andy, great to see you, thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. let'sjust talk about forjoining us here on bbc news. let's just talk about the fallout from the game first, particularly the criticism aimed at bruno fernandes, the captain of manchester united, and their behaviour as well, and his behaviour and attitude. can you hear me 0k? what do you make of the fallout from this match. 9? the fallout from this match. --? when your— the fallout from this match. --? when your team _ the fallout from this match. --? when your team concedes - the fallout from this match. "3" when your team concedes seven against their biggest rivals, the fallout is to be expected. manchester united fans are fuming, erik ten hag, the manager is fuming as well, and you would expect that. conceded all those goals in a horrific second half, at anfield, it was unexpected because manchester united have been doing so well, winning matches, called a results machine and no less byjuergen klopp. i think united fans were
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optimistic, cautiously so, going into the game yesterday, and it was just a horrific day at the office for manchester united. like just a horrific day at the office for manchester united. like you say, unbeaten run. _ for manchester united. like you say, unbeaten run, before _ for manchester united. like you say, unbeaten run, before this _ for manchester united. like you say, unbeaten run, before this match, - for manchester united. like you say, | unbeaten run, before this match, one of the league cup as well, is this something to read into or is itjust a blip? i something to read into or is it 'ust a bli? ~' . something to read into or is it 'ust a bli? ~ . ., , something to read into or is it 'ust a blip? i think and i hope it was 'ust a a blip? i think and i hope it was just a blip- _ a blip? i think and i hope it was just a blip. when _ a blip? i think and i hope it was just a blip. when manchester. a blip? i think and i hope it was - just a blip. when manchester united have had setbacks —— setbacks, the team have responded exceptionally well, this season, for example losing to brentford, to manchester city, aston villa... the team have gone on a long winning runs, winning seven, eight, nine matches. it has been a good season, united have won a first trophy since 2017, still in the fa cup, still in the europa league. yes, sunday was that low point of the season, and it will be a scoreline that liverpool fans will at no point or doubt relish for many years, but i still have a faith in erik ten hag, i think he has done a
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very good job, but he has only been in thatjob for nine months. he needs a couple of years before he fully has got the players that he wants. he has improved manchester united way above what i expected at the start of this season, but if you would have said to me in august that united would be seven points clear in liverpool after 25 games, i would not have believed that. the football has been good, old trafford has become a fortress, they can improve, if he brings in a couple more of his signings, i think manchester united will continue to strengthen. this has been a good season, sunday was not good. {if has been a good season, sunday was not aood. u, , has been a good season, sunday was not aood. , ., . , not good. of course, totally understand _ not good. of course, totally understand your _ not good. of course, totally understand your points - not good. of course, totally understand your points on l not good. of course, totally l understand your points on the not good. of course, totally - understand your points on the aspect of losing to liverpool. is there something that erik ten hag uses it immediately? how can he respond to that? other changes to, ? immediately? how can he respond to that? other changes to,? he immediately? how can he respond to that? other changes to, ?_ that? other changes to,? he should robabl that? other changes to,? he should probably get — that? other changes to,? he should probably get the _ that? other changes to,? he should probably get the players _ that? other changes to,? he should probably get the players to - that? other changes to,? he should probably get the players to run - that? other changes to,? he should probably get the players to run to i probably get the players to run to anfield and back after that heavy defeat at brentford in august. what does he change because like you would have to drop all the players in a play. not one of them came out
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with any credit. the next game is against rail betters. united played bettis in a friendly in december, and played a really long side come, that might mean going out of the europa league. —— real betis. he has got to be a good manager. he has suffered defeats before coming up is the best in the worst of them. i don't think he will overreact, i'm not too concerned that this is going to lead to a losing run and i'm basing it on the evidence i've seen so far this season. i'm hoping that it was a complete freak result. liverpool were outstanding, everything went right for them, everything went right for them, everything went right for them, everything went wrong for manchester united. they took three points off united. they took three points off united this season, and united took three points off liverpool. thank ou ve three points off liverpool. thank you very much- _ three points off liverpool. thank you very much. and _ three points off liverpool. thank you very much. and let's - three points off liverpool. thank you very much. and let's see - three points off liverpool. thank you very much. and let's see if l three points off liverpool. thank. you very much. and let's see if the boys do run to anfield and back! we move on to tennis now at... staying with tennis,
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one of the biggest tournaments there was an emotional win at the atx open in austin, texas, as ukraine's marta kostyuk secured her first wta title beating a russian opponent in varvara gracheva, and afterwards dedicated the win to ukraine and — in her words — "all the people who are fighting and dying right now". kostyuk won in straight sets, 6—3, 7—5. the world number 52 was the highest—ranked player in the current wta rankings to have never reached a tour—level final and took her opportunity. she was clearly very emotional as the win started to sink in. she didn't shake hands with her russian opponent afterwards. the victory ensures that she has reached the top 40 of the world rankings. staying with tennis, one of the biggest tournaments of the year begins this week, the atp 1000 series — at indian wells masters. but the world number one men's player, novak djokovic, will not be there. he's withdrawn as he's unable to enter the united states. the us requires international visitors to be vaccinated against covid—19 and proof will be required at least for another month. 22—time grand slam winner djokovic had applied for special permission to enter the us because he's not vaccinated. he also missed last year's us open and australia open because of his vaccination status.
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nikoloz basilashvili takes his place at this week's tournament. we're only a few weeks into the rugby league season but lee radford has left castleford tigers by mutual consent. tigers have lost all three of their games so far, and sit bottom of the table. radford said "with the club and myself heading in different directions, i think making this early call will be the correct one. hopefully, it can kick start their season starting this friday away at huddersfield. assistant coach andy last will take charge of that game. finally, at the age of 52, andrew gilding has become a major winner — beating michael van gerwen in the final of the 2023 uk open champion. gilding was a huge 200/1 outsider ahead of the tournament in minehead, and took van gerwen to a thrilling deciding leg. it's a first—ever televised title for the man known as �*goldfinger�*. what a great nickname. i'll have more for you in the next hour.
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gavin, thank you for that. it is a good nickname! exactly a month after the devastating earthquakes which killed more than 50,000 people across turkey and syria, an unprecedented number of people are living without proper shelter. the united nations development programme — the undp — estimates that in turkey alone at least one and a half million people still inside the disaster zone are homeless. the true figure could be even higher. joe english from unicef is helping with relief efforts inside syria. he's been speaking to my colleague, lucy hockings. i am here in north—west syria, and the city here is a lot lower profile, not so many high—rises. the destruction is severe, i hope you can see. many people here, before the earthquake, were living in tents and displaced from elsewhere in the country, from 12 years of conflict and even before the earthquake struck, we were talking about the highest humanitarian crisis in syria since the war began.
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children are in need of absolutely everything. i wasjust in a camp forfamilies who have been displaced, and the threat level is huge. if disease takes hold, it will be that have been displaced, and honestly, the threats are absolutely huge. children need...drinking water, and that is exactly the kind of thing that if that takes hold, if so, that will be a catastrophe on top of the continued and compounding catastrophes that children are already facing. joe, i note that unicef provides health and nutrition at supplies, joe, i know that unicef provides health and nutrition at supplies, but are you saying that the concern is so deep there might be now a worry about malnutrition for children in some of these camps? there is indeed, with children living in camps. honestly, the situation here, you wonder how people will ever be able to move back into their homes, the scale of destruction...
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it is huge. unicef are here and the un are here. we are trying to reach families, but we need continued access and funding, and it can'tjust be funding for days or for weeks, we need funding for the years ahead. how do you even begin to deal with the mental health of some of these children, the psychological well—being and the trauma they have been through? the psychosocial as well in the months ahead... it is critical and will be in the winter months ahead. we know how to do this, we work around the world in war and conflict and natural disasters and giving children somewhere they can just be a child again and be with their friends, to give them the safety and comfort they need before they can even begin the process what they have been through and their experiences. many of them have been through really extreme situations and will need professional medical and full—time support to be able to rebuild their lives. on a basic level, has unicef and any
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of the other aid agencies managed to set up temporarily learning centres or schools? we have, in both turkey and syria and have got in with our tents and set up learning spaces. i was in one in hatay, turkey yesterday and there were children preparing for high school exams. normal life tries to go on and we're doing everything we can to make sure that when children are displaced, living in these desperate situations, at least we give them a semblance of normalcy and a semblance of hope for the future. how do you work with the government in syria? we work with all partners that we have to do in terms of reaching children in need. doing cross—border work and exploring any and all opportunities to reach children whereever they are. —— wherever. at unicef, our mandate is clear, we are for every single child,
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no matter where they are or what their need is and we were in north—west syria and turkey before the earthquake and we are here now and will be here in the future to help them. it has been remarkable seeing you move around and show if you could do that for us again because it really gives us a sense of the scale of damage there. and while you do that, you did also briefly touch on what is happening with water. that is always such a clear concern. is there safe drinking water where you are at the moment? there is. we are currently trucking water in, which is hugely expensive and not our long—term solution. especially for children's vulnerability to these kind of diseases and we could see thousands of children at risk once again. especially if cholera takes hold. it really vivid sense of the continuing devastation there.
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migrants who cross the english channel on small boats to enter the uk will be removed from the country, banned from future re—entry and unable to apply for british citizenship, under new legislation. in the coming days, the government will lay out its plans to fulfil one of the prime minister's pledges to crack down on people who enter the uk illegally. simonjones is in dover. you have been covering the migrant crisis over the last couple of years orso crisis over the last couple of years or so come on and off. tell us more about these proposals in the offing. the government to say they want to make it clear that anyone crossing the channel behind me on a small boat will not be allowed to stay in the uk, so the new policy appears to be detained, deny and to deport. anyone arriving under these new plans would potentially be locked up in a sign of accommodation and then it denied the opportunity to claim
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asylum in the uk at all, and then deported, eitherto asylum in the uk at all, and then deported, either to rwanda, asylum in the uk at all, and then deported, eitherto rwanda, or another country, deemed to be safe. the idea is that if someone were deported, they would not ever be allowed to come back to the uk, so the idea is to send out a real deterrent because the home secretary, suella braverman says that british people have simply had enough of seeing pretty much on a daily basis, boats crossing the channel. she says the public have had enough of promises being made and not being kept. she says she will sort this issue out once and for all, will sort this issue out once and forall, but will sort this issue out once and for all, but that is certainly going to be a big challenge. at, for all, but that is certainly going to be a big challenge.— to be a big challenge. a big challenge. _ to be a big challenge. a big challenge, certainly. - to be a big challenge. a big challenge, certainly. will. to be a big challenge. a big challenge, certainly. will it| to be a big challenge. a big i challenge, certainly. will it be one thatis challenge, certainly. will it be one that is actually workable? i challenge, certainly. will it be one that is actually workable?- that is actually workable? i think that is actually workable? i think that is a big _ that is actually workable? i think that is a big question. _ that is actually workable? i think that is a big question. we - that is actually workable? i think that is a big question. we will i that is actually workable? i think| that is a big question. we will get more details about it tomorrow when the legislation first comes before parliament. the big challenge at the moment, it seems to me, that if you are going to detain people who
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arrive by boat, last year, 45,000 people made the crossing, privately, home office officials are preparing for up to 80,000 to make the journey this year, so you are talking about finding places for those 80,000 people, even if they are only having a temporary stay. the removals policy will then also be difficult because at the moment, not one single migrant has been sent to rwanda, despite a deal being signed with much fanfare last year because of the policy is facing legal challenges in the courts. also talk of moving people to safe countries, they have passed through to get to they have passed through to get to the uk, before actually getting on those boats over in a northern france, but at the moment, there are no returns agreements with the eu, so that is another challenge for this policy, plus, of course, the whole idea of saying that you can't claim asylum in the uk, that is likely to be challenged by refugee groups and lawyers who think this is unworkable and inhumane. to give you an idea of the scale of the issue,
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this morning, there have been more rivals, we have been seen here seeing them on the white cliffs here, border force has been bringing around a couple of boats, 60 people may be on board, a lifeboat was hit in the early hours, with another 44 people. that brings the total this yearin people. that brings the total this year in terms of arrivals to more than 3000 people. that is almost double the figure for what we saw this time last year. this issue is not going away, but i think the government outlining this new legislation are saying that there is only one package of things that they are planning and the key thing is going to be later in the week as well, when rishi sunak is going over to france to meet the french president emmanuel macron, on whether the uk can get a new deal with france, as perhaps try to convince france to take some of the people —— to take back some of the people —— to take back some of the people making the crossing. france so far shown no desire for that to happen. so far shown no desire for that to ha en. . ~ so far shown no desire for that to hauen. . ~' so far shown no desire for that to hauen. . ~ ,, ., so far shown no desire for that to hauen. . ~' ,, ., , happen. ok, thank you. simon jones there as well- _ insiders at the social media giant twitter have told bbc�*s panorama that the company is no longer able to protect users from online abuse,
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state—co—ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation — following mass sackings and changes under new owner elon musk. exclusive academic research, and testimony from twitter users, supports their allegations, suggesting hate is thriving under musk�*s leadership. 0ur social media and disinformation correspondent marianna spring reports. with more than 350 million users, twitter�*s often described as the town square of the internet. since elon musk took over last october, the company's been in chaos. the personal abuse i receive on twitter has tripled, so i headed to san francisco to look for answers. twitter used to have around 7,500 employees. now, at least half of them have been fired or chosen to leave, including lisa jennings—young. she worked on features designed to protect users like me from online hate. thank you for having us. it wasn't at all perfect,
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but we were trying and we were making things better. one of the protective measures was a nudge function, to scan the tweets and to ask users if they wanted to reconsider posting something potentially abusive. twitter�*s own research, seen by the bbc, appears to show the nudge and other safety tools being effective. so, overall, 60% of users deleted or edited their reply when given a chance via a nudge. is it still happening? is there anyone working on it? no, there's no one there to work on that at this time. the nudge does still exist, but when we tried it out, it was not working as consistently. no nudge! one engineer, still working at twitter, agreed to speak anonymously about what's been unfolding on the inside. it's like a building where all the pieces are on fire. when you look at it from the outside, the facade looks fine, but i can see that nothing is working. like others i spoke to, he said it's been difficult
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to maintain features intended to protect twitter users from trolling and harassment. people like ellie wilson. while at university in glasgow, she was raped. she started sharing her experience as a survivor on social media last summer, but when she tweeted about her attacker injanuary, after the takeover, she received dozens of abusive replies. the trolls' accounts targeting have been more active since the takeover — some were newly created or appear to have been reinstated after musk�*s amnesty on previously banned accounts. what would you say to elon musk if you had the opportunity? i would ask, why are these accounts that are bullying and harassing people still allowed on the platform? i would like him to read some of the messages that i have been sent and tell me why those accounts are still allowed to be on twitter. musk has used the votes features on twitter to make decisions about its future.
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these polls have no statistical value, but in having tried to contact him in every way possible, i used one of these polls to try to catch his attention. over 40,000 users voted and 89% of them said they would like elon musk to do an interview with me. neither twitter nor musk have responded to the points raised in this investigation. twitter says defending and respecting the users' voice remains one of its core values, but the users i've spoken to are left with questions. it's the oscars on sunday and this year's nominations have been ground—breaking on many levels. for the first time in oscars history, there's a record number of nominees of asian heritage in a single year. my colleague karishma vaswani has been speaking to shirley kurata — the costume designer nominated for her work on the movie �*everything everywhere all at once' which is also one of the contenders for best picture. i came in, you know, working on this movie with no intention that it was going to lead
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up to the oscars. i was just hoping that the movie gets finished and that people watch it. and so the fact that we've come all the way this far has been so exciting. yeah, i don't think anyone who has watched the film can not comment on some of the amazing costumes in it. you know, the things that come to mind are like the hot dog hands as well as the various costumes that the character of michelle yeoh also has. what was the inspiration for you in all of this? well, it was a little bit of everything everywhere, all at once. i looked at movies. i researched movies that michelle was in, hong kong cinema, movies that inspired the daniels, sci—fi movies. you know, i researched a lot of sort of like fashion blogs and books and kind of took elements from all aspects of my life
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that really inspired me and sort of threw it all in, you know, on top of the bagels, so to speak. yeah and these kinds of movies in hollywood, you don't see very many of them, do you, shirley? and the kinds of films that are typically made tend to cater to a much wider audience. so talk us through what it's been like for you navigating your way in the film industry. it's definitely been challenging. there have been movies where i wasn't picked as the costume designer. i was told that, you know, i didn't have enough experience. but, also, i've been in this business for over 20 years and worked with all kinds of people. so i think that it's great to sort of finally be sort of recognised for all the years of work that i've done. what do you think the takeaway
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is for you for that? the importance of having sort of like asian american voice in these films, but the fact that it's also a story that's that resonates universally. and so even if i work on projects where it's a story that you haven't heard before, there's always something in there that i think, you know, universally people can understand and that that's what really drives me. and do you think that being of asian american descent, you know, has that harmed or helped your career? has it had an impact on your career? it helped me immensely. you know, i know my parents came here, you know, with not a lot of money and they worked so hard. and watching them work so hard and sacrifice so much really was something that propelled me to also, you know, work hard
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and continue the path to what my parents so wanted for me. and that was the costume designer talking about her work on everything, everywhere, all at once. hello again. parts of northern england and ice will be an issue as well. there will be some sunshine around but it is going to feel very cold as this arctic air continues to slowly spread southwards. it will be affecting the northern half of the country, today and tomorrow. so in the areas areas, outbreaks of light patchy rain, some wintry nets over the high ground, south wales, and the high grounds of southern england. that continues
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through tuesday morning, pushing southwards, it will be a bright afternoon, i think with sunny spells, further snow showers affecting coastal areas across the north and east. it will feel cold, factor in the winter, temperatures will feel 700 lost —— across much of scotland and northern england. —— sub zero.
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this is bbc news — welcome if you're watching here in the uk or around the globe. our top stories... one month after the devastating earthquakes that killed more than 50,000 people in turkey and syria — many are still living without proper shelter. you can't deal with devastation on a scale like this in days or even weeks. the impact of this will be felt by people here in southern turkey for years. migrants crossing the english channel to the uk in small boats would be banned from ever returning under government plans announced in london — but refugee charities say the proposals are unfair and unworkable. in ukraine — fierce fighting continues as russian forces advance on the eastern city of bakhmut. the deputy mayor says the region is "almost destroyed."
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