geoffrey welcome to ne geoffrey wsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm mariko oi. the headlines. after eight months of fighting in the ukrainian town of bakhmut, wagner group mercenaries say they're pulling out. we are handing over positions to the military, ammunition, positions, everything. including food rations. the capitol hil riots in washington. a far right leader gets 18 years injail — the longest sentence yet. police in london arrest a man after a car is driven into the gates of downing street. the incident is not being treated as terror—related. and dire straits frontman mark knopfler, who wrote private dancer

for tina turner, fondly remembers the singer who died on wednesday. it's 8am in singapore and 8pm in washington, where us officials say the russian wagner group mercenaries may be working through other countries to acquire military equipment for use in ukraine. the us treasury said in a statement it has imposed sanctions on wagner's chief in mali, ivan aleksandrovich maslov. central to this is the battle for the eastern city of bakhmut in ukraine. mercenaries have been fighting on behalf of russia there — a battle that's taken on a symbolic significance.

now, they say they're withdrawing and handing their positions over to the russian army. let's hear from the leader of the wagner group. translation: it will. make we are withdrawing units from bakhmut. today, it is sam on the 25th of may. the 1st ofjune, the main parts of the unit will be relocated at the rear camp. we're handing over positions to the military. ammunition, positions, everything. including food rations. but as the wagner group withdraws, let's take a look at what they leave behind. bakhmut has been fought over since last august and ukraine says its forces still control part of it. our verify team has been looking at images from bakhmut which show the extent of the destruction after months of fighting. olga malchevska from bbc ukrainian has more. this is bakhmut before russia invaded ukraine.

once famous for its sparkling wine and thousands of rose bushes. this is bakhmut now — reduced to a landscape of ruin and death. but not defeated. the ukrainian army told us. ukrainian troops stay in south—western part of bakhmut. ukrainian army keep pushing the enemy from side of the city. 70,000 people used to live here before russia's full—scale invasion of ukraine. i was here in 2018 when the city was still full of life. this satellite image shows a street in bakhmut in may last year with civilian blocks of flats surrounding a school and two nurseries. and here they are now, after months of shelling. the bbc has been tracking the extent of this destruction. this used to be a famous site

in sport, the rose garden. ukrainian�*s largest, with over 5000 bushes. and here it is in april this year. 0n the eastern side of bakhmut is the winery. the world's deepest underground winery. we have verified footage showing it is now used by the russian mercenary group wagner. here is the military group's founder at the winery on the 23rd of february. several months later, he is there again. using visible terrain and structures we managed to match the video with the winery's entrance. as russian forces have moved across the city, entire neighbourhoods have been destroyed. it's a site that has echoes of other cities that have faced

russia's brutal bombardments in other countries. from chechnya. to moscow's intervention in syria reducing aleppo to rubble. to cities in ukraine. russia may claim bakhmut is theirs but in reality, there is little left to control. so, is this a winning strategy? let's hear from mariia mezentseva, member of the ukrainian parliament for kharkiv. we are witnessing, currently, another failure of the russian strategies, which are not operating even for the internal audience, because i think in a way that prigozhin has spoken, he is trying to save also his own team but at the same time, progress given to the russian army which will not be

realistic on the ground, as if to say ukraine continues to receive great nato weapons which are operating in our sovereign territory. yuval weber is a russian military and political strategy expert, at krulak center at marine corps university — he told me why sanctions are being waged against the head of wagner group in mali. two things that he is being sanctioned for. one is for participation in wagner's activities across sub—saharan africa and wagner has been widely reported sanctioned by the united states, eu, uk, etc. they're committing tremendous amounts of human rights abuses and engaging in murder and illegal mining, logging, things of that nature, participating in coups, the lot of it. being a part of that

group is sanctionable. the other thing is that he is sourcing by the sanctions, sanctioned military equipment for the effort in ukraine through mali. and for military equipment through groups such as the sudanese groups that are fighting the sudanese government right now. basically, being involved in gun—running with the effect of trying to support the russian military effort, that is the thing that really got him sanctioned earlier today. do you think the sanctions would have any impact on wagner's activities in ukraine? wagoner, it's a big business. they have operations both in ukraine and in sub—saharan africa. they are probably, at this point, it'll make the weapons running more difficult running more difficult but it's not going to dissuade them in a significant way.

they'll find other ways of getting the physical weapons from places in africa to ukraine. wagner's leader has been talking notjust about running short of munitions, but alsojealousy from his rivals like the ministry of defence. what's going on there? prigozhin does not have an official position within russian politics. the reason why he is basically as famous as he is is because he is a personal connection to vladimir putin. like game of thrones, he's close to the tsar. and so, that creates jealousy between the minister of defence and the chief of the general staff there. and they basically want him to go away. and they want to be

promoted above him. and complaining about his rivals day in and day out, he releases a lot of videos, not only insults them using unbroadcastable words in english or in russian but it really says that these are the people were harming the war effort. if they lose the war or not, he will be able to say after the war is over, i did something useful while people in charge of the overall war effort, they are the ones who brought failure, misery and shame on to both the russian fighting forces as well as washer at large. sorry to interrupt, but opinions are somewhat split among them about whether it is wise to hold on to bakhmut, isn't it? . , isn't it? certainly. the strategic _ isn't it? certainly. the strategic value - isn't it? certainly. the strategic value of - isn't it? certainly. the -

strategic value of bakhmut may be eight months ago was fairly important, because it was one of the towns on the way to slavyansk, which is bigger and much more importance strategically. but then rush a lot more territory, but they wanted to basically get some sort of victory. —— russia lost more territory. so the value rose in pure symbolism because thatis rose in pure symbolism because that is where magma was pulling its resources and winning. —— wagner group was pooling its resources and winning. the ukrainians similarly wanted to put their resources in, in order to deny russia this victory. a federaljudge in the united states has sentenced the founder of the far—right militant group 0ath keepers, stewart rhodes, to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy

and other crimes related to the storming of the us capitol onjanuary 6th, 2021. more now from our correspondent jessica parker in washington. the leader of the 0ath keepers and one other of the members have been sentenced today on the charge of seditious conspiracy, which is a civil war era crime, essentially the crime of attempting to overthrow or oppose the government by force. during the trial the court heard the group had stashed weapons in a nearby virginia hotel. he said while he had not personally entered the capitol building, a prosecutor said he had acted like a battlefield general. he's a former us army paratrooper, a yale educated lawyer as well and he was defiant in court today. he said he was a political prisoner,

not a characterisation the judge accepted. thejudge said, you present an ongoing threat and peril, he said, you are smart, charismatic and compelling in a way that frankly makes you dangerous. and for decades, it is clear you've wanted the democracy of this country to devolve into violence. this case being seen as very significant, a high—profile case and as i've mentioned as well, the longest sentence handed down so far linked to january 6th where trump supporters stormed the capitol building in order to try to block the certification ofjoe biden�*s presidential election victory. donald trump recently said in an interview with cnn that if he were to become president again and at the moment, he is the front runner in the republican

nomination race, he would likely pardon people. newly released documents from the fbi has revealed queen elizabeth ii faced a potential assassination threat during a visit to the us in 1983. the documents show how the fbi were concerned after a police officer uncovered information about a plot to harm the queen. let's bring on our north america correspondent david willis from los angeles. thank you forjoining us, can you keep us up—to—date to what we have found out about this possible assassination attempt? this information is contained in a trove of documents that were released by the fbi on their information website following a freedom of information request submitted by the us media. they show the

late queen was the subject of an attempted assassination attempt back in 1983, during a 10—day visit here to the state of california. apparently a threat was issued by a man in an irish pub in san francisco to a police officer, who passed the information the fbi. there was apparently a threat to either drop some object off san francisco's golden gate bridge onto the royal yacht britannia as it was passing underneath the golden gate bridge or to stage some sort or other attack on the queen during her subsequent visit to yosemite national park. that ten day visit passed without incident. there were some protests, that included a meeting with their then president of the united states ronald reagan. these documents also revealed there were subsequent threats posed,

so the fbi thought, by members of the irish republican army during the later visits by the queen to this part of the world, and to other parts of the united states, including to the united states, including to the state of kentucky, which the state of kentucky, which the queen as a very keen equestrian visited no fewer than five times. {131 equestrian visited no fewer than five times.— than five times. of course, this was — than five times. of course, this was 40 _ than five times. of course, this was 40 years - than five times. of course, this was 40 years ago. - than five times. of course, this was 40 years ago. can j than five times. of course, - this was 40 years ago. can you remind viewers why tension is at the time were high, what was happening in northern ireland, and what this man was kind of saying as a possible motive? well, you are absolutely right, tensions were very high at the time. the irish republican army was a paramilitary group that was a paramilitary group that was fighting for irish independence from the united kingdom. and only four years before the visit to california, the queen'ssecond cousin, lord louis mountbatten, had himself been killed in an attack staged

by the ira off the republic of ireland coastline. so this was a period of great tension, a lot of protests aimed at the queen, because she was seen as representing the british forces, the british establishment if you like, that some saw as illegally occupying northern ireland at the time. david willis, thank you so much for updating us on that breaking news story. a fourth person has died after a stabbing and shooting attack in centraljapan. police were called to reports of a man who chased and stabbed a woman near the city of nakano. local media say the man then shot two officers with a rifle. the suspect has now been apprehended. the us state department has warned that china was capable of launching cyber attacks against critical infrastructure. a multi—nation alert recently revealed a chinese cyber

espionage campaign aimed at military and government targets in the united states. beijing denies the accusations. this is bbc news. police scotland's chief constable has responded to a review of his force's culture by saying it is institutionally racist, sexist and discriminatory. sir iain livingstone said this didn't mean officers were prejudiced, but that acknowledging the issues was vital for change. scotland's first minister, humza yousaf, has said an admission is "monumental". the latest search in the hunt for missing british girl madeleine mccann appears to have drawn to a close in portugal. briefing tents have been taken down and heavy machinery removed from the site at a reservoir in the algarve. 0fficers spent three days searching the remote location, after information about the case was given to german prosecutors.

british airways said that it had to cancel a number of flights at london's heathrow airport due to a technical issue. ba has suffered a series of reputation—damaging it failures in the past couple of years. just over 40 flights were cancelled on thursday. you're live with bbc news. new figures show net migration hit a record high in 2022. net migration is the difference between the number of people coming to live in the uk and the number leaving. 0ur uk political editor, chris mason, has more. migration — who we are, who and how many we welcome, from where, and for how long. this is great yarmouth, in norfolk, a community and a region highly dependent on immigration. a town which overwhelmingly backed brexit.

for years and years politicians have made bold promises about immigration and for years and years they've broken them. the political conversation from successive conservative prime ministers sounded like this. net migration to this country will be in the order of tens of thousands each year — no ifs, no buts. it's important we have net migration that is in sustainable numbers. we believe sustainable numbers are the tens of thousands. the numbers will come down because we'll be able - to control the system. the pledges of yesterday washed away by reality as those of today are spelt out. there's been various factors and you will read the report, whether it's welcoming people here from hong kong and ukraine, that's had an impact, as we saw after the pandemic more people came back to study here who hadn't been here during the pandemic years. look, but fundamentally the numbers are high. i want to bring them down.

today's extraordinary figures, including doubling the number of work visas since the pandemic, show that the conservatives have no plan and no grip on immigration. in the kings arms in caistor on sea, members of the local social club are having a lunchtime pint. so, is immigration too high? i myself have my grandmother who came up from estonia when the russians invaded, so i'm a product of that. i do think it's important that we take people in, people in need, but i think we've got to the point where we need to ease off a little. that fairness seems to be lost, it seems an influx of those who wish to come here to literally sponge off us and not contribute. i think we need a certain. influx to help us work this country, in my opinion, - so i don't think you will ever get it down to zero. do you think we're more at ease now in country after brexit,

now that the government has control of it? are they controlling it? you know, they haven't. a desire to be a sanctuary for the desperate, yes, but an ongoing desire for control too, as the nature of immigration changes. how is migration to the east of england to great yarmouth changed since brexit? i think since brexit, obviously free movement has now been switched off. so, we are seeing less eu nationals moving into the town that we saw pre—brexit. but what we have seen in its place is that there are some temporary visa schemes in plates. so, we are seeing less migrants but maybe different nationalities are now being able to the town because of these visa routes being open to both the eu and non—eu communities. vidia arrived in uk decades ago as an 18—year—old from mauritius. when i looked and the train was coming, i had never seen

all the houses look alike. she now runs a care home in great yarmouth. there are 42 residents here and 76 staff. without india, we would not be here, the staff, we would not be here. and without us, the hospital would have bed block. they can't release the patients to me and we the patients to me and we aren't able to provide our ommunity the service. when they want to go on holiday, they want to place the parent in for a couple weeks, if we didn't have the beds. sancho and hajit arrived from india two years ago. here they are caring for robert. migration promises people and places in our ongoing conflicted conversation over what to do about it. chris mason, bbc news, on the norfolk coast. to london now, where police have moved a car which hit the security barriers outside downing street on thursday afternoon local time. no—one was injured.

the incident happened at around 20 past four this afternoon when the car was seen, we've seen it on footage coming across whitehall here, very busy road in central london towards the gates of downing street looking like he was slowing down as it approached the gates. it came to restjust here and that is where it stayed for several hours. rishi sunak, the prime minister, was there at the time at number ten and has since left. a man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of causing criminal damage and dangerous driving. he is being dealt with by local police in westminster and it's not being treated as a terrorist incident. the car stayed for some hours and the early evening when forensics officer appeared to take photographs and various angles around it and after that, a recovery vehicle arrived to see and it was then taken away and the quarters were moved to westminster very much back to

normal this evening. now, tributes continue to be paid to the singer tina turner who died at the age of 83. dire straits front man mark knopfler wrote private dancer, the title track of her hugely successful comeback album in 1984. he's been speaking with our entertainment correspondent colin paterson. # i'm your private dancer # a dancer for money # i'll do what you want me to do...# mark knopfler, what was it about tina turner that made her so special? absolute life force, a human dynamo. i'd never met anybody like tina. # i want to make $1 million # i wanna live out by the sea...# how did your track private dancer end up on her album? i'd written private dancer as a signal for respect being accorded to everybody in society, and tina made it the song it is. i wasjust mumbling along. you know, mine was a kind

of smoky club style of an approach, but tina's wasjust fists and, you know, seismic. it ends up being a triumphant cry for people with diminished rights everywhere. # i'm your private dancer # a dancer for money # i'll do what you want me to do...# because the way private dancer and the making of the album is described is that she was given two weeks to assemble this album by capital, and it sounds like a rally cry went around the record industry, like who can help tina turner? is that how you remember it? yes, that is how i remember it. there really was. private dancer was looking for a home. mark knopfler. you can read a lot more about those tributes coming in for her, and the other news, on our website. i'll be back with

business news shortly. for now, thank you so much for watching, stay with bbc news. hello. you need a certain level of temperature to make clouds. and on thursday, that temperature was 17 degrees. from a blue sky, sunny start to the day across the yorkshire area. so as we hit 17, we started to get these cumulus clouds. as the air started to rise, it hit a layer of warm air higher up in the earth's atmosphere and that cloud then started to spread out. and by the time we got to the early afternoon it turned pretty cloudy and that kind of thing you can see happening here on the satellite picture from thursday, look how this area of cloud just expands through the course of the afternoon, showing you that because probably going to see a similar sort of thing happening on friday, as well. now, right now, quite a few patches of cloud still across areas of lincolnshire. otherwise, for most of us, we've got clear skies

and temperatures around seven to nine degrees celsius. now on friday, for many of us, it's going to be a sunny start to the day with those blue skies with us first thing in the morning, late morning, that's when we hit 17 degrees. that's when we start to see clouds develop. and i think probably parts of yorkshire again prone to seeing some of those clouds spreading across the skies. same too probably across parts of the north midlands, northwest scotland have a bit more cloud, a few more breaks for northern ireland. for most, it's a dry day with sunny spells and temperatures still into the low twenties and the warmer spots. it will feel pleasant if you're outside well into the weekend. we do have a cold front that's going to be running into our area of high pressure that will be affecting northern areas. so expect more in the way of cloud for scotland. a bit of patchy rain too for 0rkney, shetland, the western isles and the highlands too. and this air flowing into north scotland, it's actually quite chilly. so temperatures just 12 degrees through the afternoon in lerwick on saturday. further south, more sunshine and if anything it's going to be a warmer day

with more of us seeing temperatures into the low twenties, probably peaking at around 23 or 24 degrees. heading into sunday, the high pressure is still there. and again, it's a case of sunny spells coming and going with the cloud. the highest temperatures continue to be across more western areas. so south and east wales, the south west midlands, south west england, highs could hit around 23 or 24 degrees, but otherwise starting to turn just a little bit cooler across northern and eastern areas. that's the case as well for bank holiday monday. temperatures just down a few degrees, but still feeling warm in that strong may sunshine. that's your weather, bye for now.

with less than a week to the debt ceiling dealine, we sum up the mood in washington. and heading into the weekend, find out what's at stake for the runoff presidential election in turkey. hi there. welcome to asia business report with me, mariko 0i. and a very happy friday to all of you. and it will actually be an extended weekend in america with a bank holiday on monday, memorial day weekend, which traditionally marks the start of the summer season. many lawmakers will be away, even though the debt ceiling deadline of the 1st ofjune is just one week away. from new york, my colleague michelle fleury sums up the mood in washington.