live from london. this is bbc news... ukraine's president zelensky rejects russia's claim that it is in control of the embattled city of bakhmut. bakhmut is not occupied by russian federation, as of today. there are no two or three interpretations of those words. here the bbc understands the prime minister will speak to his ethics adviser about whether the home secretary broke the ministerial code after being caught speeding. early results suggest greece's ruling new democracy party is on track to win the country's election — but it won't secure an outright majority. after a historic victory in northern ireland's council elections, sinn fein urges a power—sharing government to be

restored at stormont. hello, i'm lucy gray... president zelensky is returning home from the g7 summit injapan, having secured a pledge of "unwavering support" as well as more military equipment from ukraine's allies. speaking at the end of the meeting mr zelensky said that russia's defeat would result in lasting world peace. he also insisted russia does not occupy the embattled city of bakhmut. it comes after conflicting reports of who is now in control of the eastern city. russia's president putin has congratulated the wagner mercenary group for capturing the city. our asia pacific correspondent, laura bicker, sent this report from hiroshima. this president knows the cost of war. mr zelensky paid tribute to the victims of the hiroshima

bombing and needed no reminder from the sombre city of what can happen when a bitter conflict leads to the use of a nuclear weapon. together with the entire g7, we have ukraine's back, and i promise we're not going anywhere. his meetings with the us president and others are to ensure this does not happen in ukraine. putin will not break our resolve. in a policy shift, washington has confirmed it will allow ukrainian pilots to train in american—madejets. the united states, together with our allies and partners, is going to begin training ukrainian pilots in fourth—generation fighter aircraft, including f—16s, to strengthen ukraine's air force as part of a long—term commitment to ukraine's ability to defend itself. president biden has also guaranteed anti—tank weapons and more ammunition.

but what we don't know, what we don't have is any cast—iron guarantee about who will provide these f—16s or combatjets. and that is crucial because it will take time to train them. and president zelensky says this is what could turn the tide of this war. yet mr zelensky seems confident he will get his much longed forjets. we have been working for a long time with our partners to strengthen our skies. i can't tell you how many aircraft we will be able to get. i'm not able to tell you when this will take place. but we will speed it up because it's important. every day, we are losing lives. this japanese city is thousands of miles from ukraine.

but here its leader found prayers of support and solidarity. moscow may have hoped interest in this war would wane and the world would move on. but together in hiroshima, g7 leaders have resolved that they'll help kyiv for as long as it takes. laura bicker, bbc news, japan. here in the uk the bbc understands the prime minister will talk to his ethics adviser on monday — following claims the home secretary broke the ministerial code after being caught speeding. (box gfx it's reported suella braverman asked civil servants to help her book a private driving awareness course — rather than a group session, before paying a fine and accepting points. mr sunak has declined to publicly back ms braverman. here's our political correspondent ben wright. when a prime minister strides the world stage, it's always the questions about a rumpus back home that seem to irritate. injapan, rishi sunak was asked if he still had confidence in his home secretary. well, chris, i don't know the full details of what has happened, nor have i spoken to the home

secretary. i think you can see first—hand what i have been doing over the last day or so. but i understand she has expressed regret for speeding, accepted the penalty and paid the fine. downing street later insisted that of course the prime minister had full confidence in suella braverman. it's not the speeding offence itself that has put her in the spotlight, the issue is whether she acted properly in trying to arrange a one to one driving awareness course. the government doesn't dispute that ms braverman approached civil servants for advice, but she was told they couldn't get involved. seemingly keen to avoid taking part in the usual group course, ms braverman then asked a political aide to try and arrange a one—to—one session, but the company said no. labour wants an investigation. rishi sunak needs to put his money where his mouth is and show that he stands up for standards in public life and have an immediate investigation under the ministerial code. in the end, ms braverman decided to pay a fine and take the penalty

points on her licence instead. her team insists the home secretary did everything right and deny there has been any breach of the ministerial rule book. but even this former tory party chairman has concerns. | it certainly brings into question, i i think, the use of civil servants, so i think there is definitely questions to be answered. i shouldn't do it in the first place, but if you do get caught, - you just take the medicine. and let's see where we get to. suella braverman was keeping her head down today, but mps will have their own chance to quiz the home secretary about all this when she takes questions in the commons tomorrow. ben wright, bbc news. let's cross live now to our political correspondent ben wright. rishi political correspondent ben wright. sunak talking t adviser rishi sunak talking to his ethics adviser tomorrow, rishi sunak talking to his ethics advisertomorrow, but rishi sunak talking to his ethics adviser tomorrow, but this isn't actually the launch of an investigation, is it?- actually the launch of an investigation, is it? no, it's not. it's important — investigation, is it? no, it's not. it's important to _ investigation, is it? no, it's not. it's important to stress - investigation, is it? no, it's not. it's important to stress that. - it's important to stress that. labour and other opposition parties have been calling for an investigation. they want the prime

minister to ask his independent pfizer and ministers interest to get to the bottom of what happened, to establish whether or not there may have been some breach of the ministerial rule book. what's going to happen tomorrow is that rishi sunak will simply talk to sir lori magness, seek his advice on what he makes of the reports that have been around now for more than 2a hours. the prime minister is still in the airflying back from the prime minister is still in the air flying back from japan to the uk, andi air flying back from japan to the uk, and i think some of the irritation that was quite evident at that press conference was because he hadn't really got across the detail. he didn't know about the speeding offence before it was reported in a couple of sunday papers. he hadn't been told about it by the cabinet office or any officials before hand. so i think he was caught on the hop during that press conference just before he got on that plane. i imagine now on that flight he is thinking about it, talking to his advisers and crucially will speak to his adviser and ministers interests tomorrow. to his adviser and ministers interests tomorrow. ., , ., ,

his adviser and ministers interests tomorrow. ., tomorrow. to explain in terms of issues whether _ tomorrow. to explain in terms of issues whether she _ tomorrow. to explain in terms of issues whether she broke - tomorrow. to explain in terms of issues whether she broke the - issues whether she broke the ministerial code, she was basically trying to get a private course, this speed awareness course, she was trying to get a private car so she didn't have to do it with members of the public, but it is the fact that she asked her civil servants to do it, that's what's at issue here, isn't it? . , ,, ., ., isn't it? that is right. quite a lot about this _ isn't it? that is right. quite a lot about this that _ isn't it? that is right. quite a lot about this that we _ isn't it? that is right. quite a lot about this that we still _ isn't it? that is right. quite a lot about this that we still don't - isn't it? that is right. quite a lot i about this that we still don't know the details of. all government sources i've spoken to have said that once she was given the option of either having three points on her licence, paying a fine or doing a chorus, the home secretary had conversations with the civil service seeking their advice. now, what i don't know is whether she asked civil servants to book a one—to—one course on her behalf. what we do know is that she was saying, look, this has nothing to do with us at all. go and ask your political adviser to pursue this if you want to come and we know that her than political adviser did try to book a

one speed awareness course for her. her motivation, still unclear when i spoke to a government source about this and that she was going through this and that she was going through this rigmarole to avoid being recognised. they wouldn't engage on that. the assumption has to be she didn't want to be in a chorus with other people either online or in person. as i said in my report, swell up's team insist that they be have not done anything wrong, but there is massive opposition pressure to at least investigate this, and i think she may be a time and were concerned this evening then she make up concerned this evening then she make up and now she knows the prime minister will be talking to his adviser tomorrow. thank you very much. in greece the centre—right party of the incumbent prime minister, kyriakos mitsotakis, is headed for a clear victory in parliamentary elections, though it may lack an outright majority. with just over half the ballot counted, the new democracy party has more than 40% of the votes,

fully 20 points ahead of its nearest rival, the leftist syriza party of prime minister alexis tsipras. these are the scenes in athens right now. kyriatos mitsotakis and his centre—right new democracy have done well and are set to be the largest party. is currently speaking and saying that election victory shows that the new democracy has the people's approval to rule as a one—party government. he is addressing his supporters there, let's bring in our guest now. joining me now from athens is anthee carassava, a correspondent based in greece. we haven't had all the votes in, but he's basically claiming victory. i understand that he still wouldn't have enough for a majority? absolutely. this is an election result that we were expecting. with 60% of the vote counted, the size

and scope of this victory is simply staggering. it passed his jaws dropping even at the political headquarters. 20 points between him and the main opposition, the leftist leader, he was a former prime minister. and it's this staggering difference that has people kind of shocked because it speaks volumes to the fact that this is an abysmal defeat for this opposition leader. in fact, it shows that greeks did not buy into his fear mongering, instead, cited by that stable course of economic recovery, albeit the problems, albeit, you know, and

issues that have been raised. deciding on a stable course of economic recovery. so, but even so, even the fact that we do have this sizeable victory, the prime minister cannot form an outright majority government because of a complex electoral system. so the question is now what does he do? he can see kept a coalition partner and he can form a coalition partner and he can form a coalition partner and he can form a coalition government, but he has said that he wants to go it alone, and it is highly probable that what we will see in the next day is that while he will be given a three—day mandate to form a coalition government, he is going to pass on that and probably take grease on another trip to the ballot box, this time under a new electoral system that will give him the added firepower that he needs, and

electoral system that gives like 50 seats more, and that will give him a very strong control of greece's 300 seat parliament, enough for him to press ahead with reforms needed for grease's financial success and economic recovery to be completed. it's interesting, because as we know, there is a cost crisis in greece as there is in so many parts of the world right now, and he would've expected perhaps may be people calling for a change, wouldn't you? we also have seen quite low turn out, i believe to mandibles change that younger voters are now allowed to vote, i7—2i —year—olds voting for the first time. he perhaps may have thought that their support may have gone to the left as well, most of it a large part of it would have gone to the another party. i do think that isn't the case? it another party. i do think that isn't the case? , ., , ., , the case? it still remains to be seen because _ the case? it still remains to be seen because we _ the case? it still remains to be seen because we are _

the case? it still remains to be seen because we are decoding| the case? it still remains to be . seen because we are decoding the results of these elections, and as you pointed out, a very important here is that a large amount of voters did not go to vote. it is one of the highest showings of voter apathy that we have seen in recent elections. we also went to see, you know, but the breakdown of these voters, whether in fact these young voters, a record number of them appearing for the first time, did come out to vote in favour of the ruling new democracy party. these are questions that will be decoded, but it is clear that those who did go to vote did not or were not convinced by the main opposition leader or other even radical leftists are radical right parties

that provided a different alternative, and the thinking is simply that despite these problems, that the government has faced in its recovery, that it is the safest bet, and no alternative, no viable alternative has been given to the greeks. . ~ alternative has been given to the greeks. ., ~ , ., alternative has been given to the greeks. ., ~ i. . alternative has been given to the greeks. ., ~ . ., greeks. thank you so much for shafinu greeks. thank you so much for sharing your — greeks. thank you so much for sharing your expertise - greeks. thank you so much for sharing your expertise with - greeks. thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us. nick, our correspondent in athens press, he can bring us up to date on what prime minister has been saying. he has been speaking for the last few minutes talking about a political earthquake here in greece tonight. certainly the posters underestimated his appeal to the nation. he said that he's got a clear mandate to govern for another four years that he will be able to continue the job, as

four years that he will be able to continue thejob, as it four years that he will be able to continue the job, as it were. four years that he will be able to continue thejob, as it were. he's had for years in power and that he is really appearing to the nation to keep him in power. it's not quite as easy as that, as we have been hearing in the last few minutes or so, but certainly he says he's got the credibility to go to the people, it would seem, in a few weeks' time for this second vote in the system, has he been hearing, changes yet again. so with these bonuses being awarded to the party, you would imagine tonight he would be confident that he could secure an outright majority, certainly with that type of factor, a majority when the greeks go to the polls probably injuly, it the greeks go to the polls probably in july, it would the greeks go to the polls probably injuly, it would seem. do the greeks go to the polls probably in july, it would seem.— the greeks go to the polls probably in july, it would seem. do you thank ou will in july, it would seem. do you thank you will basically _ in july, it would seem. do you thank you will basically tried _ in july, it would seem. do you thank you will basically tried not _ in july, it would seem. do you thank you will basically tried not to - in july, it would seem. do you thank you will basically tried not to form . you will basically tried not to form a coalition and try to go for this second election to try to consolidate his support, do you? well, listening to the analysts here in greece tonight, they say if you look at it from prime minister mitsotakis's point of view, he's got

real momentum, a 20 percentage difference between him and the party that's coming second. and with that momentum can he can move forward. what is the incentive for him to go into a coalition government where he will be constrained, of course, with all coalition politics. you have to put in his cabinet and other key places who he wouldn't necessarily want to be within his team, so certainly that would be to thinking. coalitions, the talks will happen over the next few days or so, technically it's three days rest above the budget coming for us to try to put something together, then another three days, then another three days. i'm not sure if we will even get to that, whether it will emerge quite quickly that prime minister mitsotakis believes, as he has claimed tonight in the speech just in the last few minutes or so, that he's got the credibility, the mandate, and as a result of what he describes as a political earthquake, that he's got the vote of the greek people as a whole to continue forward and stress the economy as he

has been doing. he spent appearing as the only guy who can accelerate the growth in economy and move it forward, the use of pain with the eu bailout, the reduction in spending, years of high unemployment that really they can be a thing of the past, and he is the man for the future. . ~' , ., , past, and he is the man for the future. ., ~ i. , . past, and he is the man for the future. . ~ ,, , . ., past, and he is the man for the future. ., ~ i. , . ., ., now it's time for a look at today's sport. arsenalfans arsenal fans may want to look away now. they will have done for the last 2a hours, probably. well, manchester city became english premier league champions yesterday after rivals arsenal failed to win their game but city celebrated their third title in a row, with victory over chelsea at etihad stadium this afternoon. the i—nil win was played out in a party atmosphere with the city players presented with their fifth premier league trophy in six years at the end of the game. city have two more league games to play before they have the chance to win a treble of trophies with an fa cup final

and a champions league final to come next month. the champions committee go. no matter what, we've got the best players in the world, we are the champions. nothing can beat it. the a few times now i've seen this, but i never get sick of seeing it. love city. hope for some more. what i never get sick of seeing it. love city. hope for some more. what can i sa ? city. hope for some more. what can i say? fantastic _ city. hope for some more. what can i say? fantastic. but _ city. hope for some more. what can i say? fantastic. but we _ city. hope for some more. what can i say? fantastic. but we are _ city. hope for some more. what can i say? fantastic. but we are getting . say? fantastic. but we are getting used _ say? fantastic. but we are getting used to— say? fantastic. but we are getting used to it — say? fantastic. but we are getting used to it now, aren't we? leeds united's premier league fate is hanging by a thread as europa conference league finalists west ham came from behind to secure a 3—1 victory at london stadium. leeds must beat spurs and hope other results go their way. they need everton not to win their game against bournemouth or they need leicester city to fail to collect four points from theirfinal two games in order for leeds to stay up. the leeds fans that remained in the stadium until the final whistle, didn't look particularly

encouraged by their sides chances. we slipped up last week when we could have one against newcastle, and today, we have and showed the quality that was needed when we had the opportunity to get results today. so, next week has to be much, much better than those two games to beat tottenham. that's all we can deal, all the players need to do is roll their sleeves up, apply themselves in the right way and try and beat tottenham and hope the other results goes in our favour. brighton beat southampton 3—1 to secure european football for the first time in the club's history. 18—year—old forward evan ferguson scored twice in the first half as brighton strengthened their grip on sixth place in the table and have now all—but qualified for next season's europa league because of their superior goal difference over seventh—placed aston villa. this victory over their south—coast rivals assures brighton of a europa conference league spot

at the very least. it's incredible. 0ne it's incredible. one of the best days— it's incredible. one of the best days in— it's incredible. one of the best days in my— it's incredible. one of the best days in my career. you know, i can change _ days in my career. you know, i can change my— days in my career. you know, i can change my idea, my philosophy, my confidence _ change my idea, my philosophy, my confidence in myself, depending on the results, but i think we deserved to qualify— the results, but i think we deserved to qualify in — the results, but i think we deserved to qualify in europe. the three—time grand slam champion andy murray has withdrawn from the french open, which starts next sunday. the 36—year—old says he want to concentrate on the grass court season building up to wimbledon. murray has only played at roland garros once since 2017. the american rider brandon mcnulty won a stage of a grand tour for the first time in his career as he edged a three—man sprint to clinch stage 15 of the giro d'italia. the uae team emirates rider timed his burst to the line to perfection as he went past ireland's ben healy and marco frigo of italy to take the honours after more than five

hours in the saddle. france's bruno armirail retained the pinkjersey heading into monday's rest day. now to the final round of golf�*s us pga championship at oak hill country club in upstate new york where the leader brooks koepka had a one shot lead ahead of the final round. the four time major champion is on eight under par and now has a three shot lead. viktor hovland is the player chasing at the moment. full coverage on the bbc sport website. and that's all the sport for now. thank you very much. the prime minister of italy has been visiting homes affected by the severe floods in the northeast of the country. she returned early from the g7 summit injapan to see for herself the effects of the heavy rainfall near ravenna. ia people died in the extreme weather which saw six months worth of rainfall in just 36 hours.

36,000 people were displaced by the incessant rains in the emilia romagna region. 10,000 people have since been able to return to their homes. there have been reports of fighting in sudan despite rival generals agreeing to a temporary ceasefire. previous truce attempts between sudan's regular army and the para—military rapid support forces have tended to collapse within minutes of beginning. but the new deal which starts on monday is enforced by a "ceasefire monitoring mechanism". now to northern ireland where sinn fein's vice president michelle 0'neill has called on the british and irish governments to deliver a plan to restore a powersharing government at stormont. it's after her party delivered a stunning success in the council elections, becoming the largest party in local government for the first time. emma vardy reports. the political landscape of northern ireland is changing. unionism, the belief that northern ireland should remain part of the uk,

is no longer the dominant force. as the democratic unionist party, for a second time in 12 months, has been overtaken by sinn fein. it was inevitable that it would be that way, because people, well, my idea, you vote for people who are going to do the job. ijust think it was coming, the dup haven't been standing around doing anything, so... that is what it is down to, a lack of government? lack of government, yeah. someone has to make really vital decisions relating - to the environment, employment, . childcare, women's refuge provision, the whole abortion issue. the scale of the jump in support for sinn fein is something they themselves had not even predicted, but will it do anything to change the dynamic in the power—sharing crisis here in northern ireland, which has left everyone without a government for a year?

the dup are preventing a return to power—sharing as a protest over the brexit arrangements. the irish sea border which they believe undermines northern ireland's place in the uk. the party wants new legislation from the british government to address their concerns before they will return to government. getting a border poll is still core business for sinn fein, it is just that they downgrade it slightly come election time. in effect, what you have now got in northern ireland is 40% of the population wanting a united ireland, 40% who don't want a united ireland, and 20% in the middle who can't make up their mind. when a devolved government is reformed here, sinn fein will for the first time hold the role of first minister. the dup will still have equal powers but the events of recent days have cemented a historic shift which shows no sign yet of being reversed. emma vardy, bbc news, belfast. a woman from saudi arabia will make history later when she blasts off from florida to spend 10 days on board the international

space station. rayyanah barnawi, a breast cancer researcher, will become the first saudi woman to voyage into space. you are watching bbc news. do stay with us. hello, we have a lot of fine weather to come for the uk in the week ahead. very little rain to speak of. and for many, increasing amounts of sunshine will equate to temperatures working their way out. the reason it is going to be fine, a big area of high pressure centred down here across the azores. we often refer to it as the azores high. and through the course of the week, it will extend its way eastwards across the uk, and then later on in the week, it looks like if anything, we will see the centre of the high eventually pushing across towards the uk. so, a lot of fine weather to come. 0vernight, perhaps a few showers across eastern england. some strays getting pulled in on the breeze off the north sea. perhaps the odd spot of rain

out of this old weather front dangling its way south into scotland. but nothing significant. clearer skies, northern england and the midlands — light winds here. we could see lows down to just three or four degrees. pretty chilly here for the time of year. monday — the high pushing its way eastwards sends those showers away from the northern coast. we see another weather front, the remnants of thereof, brushing into the high. no success getting any significant rain out of it but there will, i think, be thicker cloud, perhaps some drizzle across eastern scotland for a time early on on monday. by the afternoon, though, it will be looking much brighter here. any early showers from east anglia clearing away. a lot of sunshine, particularly later on in the day on monday. and our temperatures up to 22 degrees, perhaps 23 degrees across england and wales. the high teens for southern scotland. further north and into northern ireland, perhaps 16 degrees. the chelsea flower show gets into a on monday.

a great—looking week here for anyone out on the site. temperatures on the high teens. you can see those temperatures vary a bit day on day, and that will be the case for many spots in the uk. all governed by exactly the wind direction. more off the north sea, you'll find things become cooler. more cloud feeding and, of course it becomes cooler. tuesday, a breeze off the north sea, 18 in london, down a little on monday. a little more cloud as well. but overall through the week ahead as promised at the start, lots of fine weather to come. very little in the way of significant rainfall. and our temperatures, as we see more in the way of sunshine, working their way up.

this is bbc news. the headlines. the g7 summit injapan has ended with a pledge of unwavering support for ukraine. president zelensky said victory over russia would deter other potential aggressors around the world. he also denied claims that the eastern city of bakhmut had fallen into russian hands. here, the bbc understands the prime minister will talk to his ethics adviser, following claims the home secretary broke the ministerial code after being caught speeding. it's reported suella braverman asked civil servants to help her book a private driving awareness course. the greek prime minister is claiming victory in the country's parliamentary elections hailing what he called a "political earthquake" with his party's win. however, polls suggest the conservative new democracy will

fall short of an outright victory.