hello from the bbc sport centre. we're going to start at the puskas arena in budapest hungary where sevilla are on the hunt for a seventh europa league title but they're up against roma in the final wherejose mourinho is looking to become the most decorated european manager ever. the tastiest of ties with so much on the line. the winner assured a place in the champions league next season. we're just over 30 minutes in and sadly not a huge amount to update you with. england manager sarina wiegman has announced her squad for the women's football world cup and there's no place for the european championships player of the tournament. the euro 2022 top scorer beth mead is not included having not fully recovered from an anterior cruciate ligament injury. however, millie bright and lucy bronze who've also had injury problems are both included. bright will captain the squad in australia and new zealand. and striker beth england has earned herself a call—up after scoring 12

goals in 12 games for tottenham hotspur. the approach is always, like we want to be at our best, and that is what we are going for now. you talk a bit in transition now, so some changes in the team, but i still think we are really good and talented players, and we are going to make sure we can be at our best and then we see how far we get. there's a big cloud hanging over the world cup though. fans in many countries don't know where they'll be able to watch the matches. the british government, along with those in france, germany, italy and spain, have released a statement urging fifa and broadcasters to settle the matter, for the good of the women's game. here's former england captain faye white for her thoughts on the issue. there's a big cloud hanging over the world cup though.

it's day four at roland garros and 22 time grand slam winner novak djokovic is on court as we speak. he's up against world number 73 martin fucsovics. and while it is the hungarian's favourite surface, he's struggled in the first set against his more decorated opponent. djokovic leading 5—2. ——djokovic leading 5—4. djoko looking for his third french open and the chance to move clear of rafa nadal in the all time major winners category... world number one carlos alcaraz advanced to the third round despite moments of struggle againstjapan's taro daniel.

the spaniard won the first set 6—1 but lost the second 3—6. world number 97, daniel put up a fight but could only win three games across the next two sets. alcaraz will play canada's denis shapovalov in the next round. stefanos tsitsipas and cameron norrie are also through. meanwhile, home favourite and fifth seeded caroline garcia is out, becoming the highest—ranked women's player to exit the tournament. she lost in three sets to russia's world number 56 anna blinkova. former championjelena 0stapenko was also defeated, while second seed aryna sabalenka won her match. usain bolt has been in talks with world athletics about playing a role in reviving the sport that made him a global superstar. the jamaican dominated men's sprinting for nearly a decade from the 2008 beijing olympics, but he says that the sport has been in something of a slump since he retired. after me it kind of went down because of how i was, as a person, and my personality,

and how big my personality was, but, i think over time it will get better i think young are coming up, i have seen a few personalities that is needed the sport. and that's all the sport for now. as the war rages in ukraine, russian forces are accused of illegally taking thousands of ukrainian children from their parents. ukraine says 19,000 have been removed from the country in illegal deportations. it's prompted an international arrest warrant to be issued for the russian president vladimir putin. in an exclusive report, our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford has met one mother whose son was taken by russian forces — and relocated hundreds of miles away. this is her report. it is the most anxious journey of these mothers�* lives. dashing to reach the children they'd

been separated from for six months. ukrainian children, sent to summer camps run by russia, and then never returned. alla tells me every minute now counts. the children have been told they'll be put in care if their mums don't come for them. that means a gruelling trip across thousands of miles, from ukraine, deep into the country that's declared war on them. translation: i should never have let him go but we didn't know. - theyjust took him and that was that. my son had seen explosions. i wanted him to relax from the war, and then this happened. ijust hope we make it in time. russia has been removing children from parts of ukraine it occupies. it claims its saving them from danger. but the international criminal court

calls this illegal deportation. vladimir vladimirovich putin! it's why he is now a wanted man. vladimir putin has annexed huge chunks of ukraine and claims everything there as russian. even the children. and we've found new evidence of how they're treated. this boy's ukrainian. dressed in the z mark of russia's war on his country. he's a classmate of tatiana's son, who was also taken by the russians. sasha has special needs. his mum had to travel into enemy territory to rescue him. he tells me how russian soldiers in balaclavas came to his school with guns. they loaded him and 12 other children onto buses and drove off with them. sasha had no contact with his mum for six weeks.

when i ask how hard that was... he says it's too distressing to remember. sasha is now safe with his mum, in germany. he's told tatiana the children were banned from even mentioning ukraine, told there was nothing there to return for. translation: it's not only putin who should be put on trial. - it's all the main people. the commanders, all of them, for what they did to the children. what right did they have? so i called the woman in charge of the school were sasha was taken. hello. deep inside russian—occupied territory. i wanted to know about the z mark. the ukrainian children, dressed as russian soldiers. "so what if they were?"

the director shot back. "what kind of question is that?" soon after, the line cut out. for those who do make it back, the long road to home ends here, on ukraine's northern border. the first groups are just coming through. i can see some of the women and children waving as they cross the border, finally. six months apart, then six days of travel to be reunited. daniil had been scared he wouldn't see his mum again, but alla made it. the stories of their exhausting, dramatic trip spill out between the welcome hugs. but alla tells me it was all worth it to see her son again. daniiljust says the reunion was brilliant. this is a war that's created

all sorts of victims. brought all sorts of pain. but it is the fate of ukraine's children that's got vladimir putin indicted as a suspected war criminal. sarah rainsford, bbc news, in northern ukraine. later in the programme, we'll speak to the head of one ukrainian charity that's working to find missing people — either taken or displaced by russia's invasion. but first, let's focus on the military situation on the ground. the former us army chief general david patraeus is in ukraine and says the forthcoming counter—offensive could be — quote — "very impressive." his comments came after a meeting with president zelensky, in an exclusive interview with our diplomatic correspondent james landale. for the first time and that's where,

we will see the results of tanks protected by thundery against anti—tank guided missiles, artillery, keeping heads down, engineers reducing obstacles, breaching these fortifications that the russians have established. air defence, keeping the russian defence off the ukrainians. —— air defence keeping the russians off the ukrainians, electronic warfare jamming the russians�* already inadequate , and and control, all orchestrated by very good ukrainian, command control, and using drones over the russians to attack them in depth with the precision munitions that the us and uk and others have provided. and this is going to break, i think, the front lines. where they will do this attack, i'm not going to speculate, although the ukrainians have said that their objective is to sever the ground lines of communications that enables the russians to go along the south—east

coast into crimea. we achieved combined arms effect during the fight to baghdad, and it is terrifying for the enemy, and the difference this time from kharkiv last fall, where the ukrainians did carry out a very successful attack, is that when the lead elements culminate, after 72, 96 hours, as far as you can physically go, there are follow—on forces that will capitalise and exploit the momentum and continue this. and then i think you get the battlefield, you make it dynamic, the russians have to react, they have to move to re—establish a defensive line somewhere in the rear of where they are, and where they were. and noting that on the russian side, this is a force that has been battered, that many of these units have been in constant combat for well over a year, they are not pulling units offline and reconstituting them, in other words replacing the losses of people and equipment, they arejust adding people to the front lines. that is not the way you produce a cohesive, coherent, well disciplined organisation,

and i think therefore that is why they are going to crack, crumble and perhaps actually collapse. and then if you can get the russian defences really moving, then i think there are opportunities even more broadly. let�*s talk now to lieutenant general ben hodges— he is the former commanding general of us army europe. he now works as senior adviser to human rights first, a nonprofit international human rights organisation based in the us. thank you for being with us. what is your assessment of where that's where it is right now? we have seen increasing drone attacks on both sides, those in moscow yesterday increasingly in daytime hours and the capital kyiv. where are we particularly with regard to that so—called spring offensive? particularly with regard to that so-called spring offensive? well, i would hate — so-called spring offensive? well, i would hate to _ so-called spring offensive? well, i would hate to be _ so-called spring offensive? well, i would hate to be a _ so-called spring offensive? well, i would hate to be a russian - so-called spring offensive? well, i would hate to be a russian private| would hate to be a russian private setting in a trench right now

waiting for this thing to start stop i think what my former commander just described is that combined arms, i would agree with that. a couple of other things that give ukrainians advantage, in addition to knowing the ground so well, the russians, their, and structure is so fractured right now. these guys, they hate each other, and that trickles down to all the kernels and other officers below them in their separate tribes and this will also make it difficult for russians to have a coherent defence and their air force, soft area nine years, there have not achieved air superiority. they've not been able to destroy a single column or bring new equipment and ammunition from poland and the ukraine. so i think that he is correct. the potential, of course, this will be very tough.

the potential for a significant breakthrough which will lead to the isolation of crimea, the decisive terrain, and then ukrainians will be able to bring up more long range weapons that can make crimea untenable for russian forces. i want to talk longer— untenable for russian forces. i want to talk longer term _ untenable for russian forces. i want to talk longer term about _ untenable for russian forces. i want to talk longer term about what - untenable for russian forces. i want to talk longer term about what any. to talk longer term about what any outcome might look like. but let's talk about what is clearly a big job ahead. you talk they are about the disk organisation, the pretty equipment that russian forces might have. i wonderfirst equipment that russian forces might have. i wonder first of all, is there any chance at all that that could be disinformation, it could be a bluff to maybe lead you to a false sense of security. is there any sense of security. is there any sense of that at all because i would always have respect for the ability of russia to do things that we didn't expect they could do. it is a large force, even with all of their leadership problems, all of their logistics problems, i think given

the ukrainians ability to see what is going on, they are they that thousands of drones that are out there. plus you have got ukrainian, i would imagine special forces and partisans that are operating in the rear area of russian forces. i mean, i imagine that the ukrainians have a very, very good sense of what is actually going on on the other side. one of the things i know the us is concerned about is if president putin is pushed into a corner, given all of that organisation —— disorganisation and an ill equipped force that he's dealing with that president putin may use the nuclear option. we note there are no good outcomes from that. it is that a real possibility? £31 outcomes from that. it is that a real possibility?— outcomes from that. it is that a real possibility? of course, iwould never real possibility? of course, i would never discount _ real possibility? of course, iwould never discount it. _ real possibility? of course, i would never discount it. they _ real possibility? of course, iwould never discount it. they have - never discount it. they have thousands of nuclear weapons. they clearly don't care how many innocent people they might scale. and i do believe it is very unlikely, there are no advantages for them to do

this. the chinese president has told them not to do it. president biden has told them that if they use a nuclear weapon there will be catastrophic consequences for russia. i think the russians actually believe that. they understand that, that their nuclear weapons are most effective for them when they don't use them because they can see that we, particularly in the united states, our administration, ourself in the united states, our administration, our self deterring because of such a concern about the possibility of some sort of nuclear escalation, but that does not have the russians thing. i don't think the russians thing. i don't think the russians thing. i don't think the russians think in terms of escalation the way they think is avoid strength, exploit our weakness, and when they see that we continue to deter our self or we sort of dribble out in an incremental way, decisions about what to provide to ukraine, they see thatis what to provide to ukraine, they see that is weakness. thank goodness the

uk has moved in front of us in providing tanks and providing weapon like storm shadow. so i hope that the president will say it we want to ukraine to win and let's give them everything that they need. no more excuses. if we do this, i think this whole thing could be over before the end of the year. fin whole thing could be over before the end of the year-— end of the year. on that issue, let's look at — end of the year. on that issue, let's look at what _ end of the year. on that issue, let's look at what a _ end of the year. on that issue, let's look at what a win - end of the year. on that issue, i let's look at what a win could look like. what is the end here? what is the finish? i like. what is the end here? what is the finish? ~ , the finish? i think president zelensky has _ the finish? i think president zelensky has laid _ the finish? i think president zelensky has laid out - the finish? i think president zelensky has laid out his . the finish? i think president - zelensky has laid out his desire, my president from your prime minister also need to lay out the end state. clearly ukraine has to recover all of its sovereign territory. 1991 partners including crimea. it will never be safe or secure as long as russia occupies crimea, and they will never be able to rebuild their economy as long as russia occupies crimea. so that is decisive. they have to have that. then this terrible story that your report just gave about the thousands of ukrainian children that have been

deported. those poorfamilies have got to get their kids back. accountability for war crimes. and then, i think and hopefully we will hear about some sort of concrete, it won't be called the membership action plan, but something that looks close to that, more concrete that says here is a path to membership in nato for it ukraine. these are the kinds of things that i think have to be in the end state for ukraine. and that's what we should be laying out.— for ukraine. and that's what we should be laying out. yes, we will follow it closely. _ should be laying out. yes, we will follow it closely. lieutenant - follow it closely. lieutenant general, as always, it is great to have your insight. thank you for being with us on the programme. thank you for the privilege. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. the popularity of vapes and e

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could a simple british pea be the answer to deforestation and climate change? british researchers say it could help. they're developing peas that don't taste like peas. the idea is to produce an alternative to soya to meet the growing demand for plant—based food. peas are high in protein, but they tend not to be used in vegan dishes because many people are put off by the taste. the development would reduce carbon emissions because peas don't need fertilisers. i'm joined now by professor claire domoney, group leader at thejohn inners centre and is one of the scientists working on the project.. thank you for being with us. it's a fascinating story, this. talk to me about this work because it's not particularly new work. some of the initial background was done 30 years ago. it's the application of it now that can be so interesting. absolutely, yes. so what we are doing as we are trying to combine a ray of traits and get them into a single background, so that we can

combine high nutritional value, high protein digestibility and so on into a product which will be operating interest to the food industry, and as he rightly said, one of the negatives of that protein is the strong flavour that overpowers a variety of foods. so it's already used in a variety of vegan and vegetarian foods, but it cannot be used at a greater level at the moment because of that flavour, taste and flavour attribute, which has a negative impact. we identified some years ago a variant, a pea, among our vast collection, and we have over three and half thousand different types there. we have identified this particular variant which lacked an enzyme which gives rise to these labels. so that was of great interest to the vegetable industry at the time because it might allow more rapid harvest seeds

from the field from the fresh frozen pea industry. however... from the field from the fresh frozen pea industry. however. . ._ pea industry. however... sorry to interruot. — pea industry. however... sorry to interrupt, what _ pea industry. however... sorry to interrupt, what is _ pea industry. however... sorry to interrupt, what is so _ pea industry. however... sorry to interrupt, what is so fascinating l interrupt, what is so fascinating about this as well is that at a moment, a lot of that soil is imported from south america, causing destruction of the rain forest, coming into great environment to costs, shipping it here. looking at the numbers, we played 4 million tonnes of soya just for food and animal feed. tonnes of soya just for food and animalfeed. we could grow the tonnes of soya just for food and animal feed. we could grow the staff here in the uk, and actually, it is good for the environment because it puts nutrients back into the ground. how does that work? peas puts nutrients back into the ground. how does that work?— puts nutrients back into the ground. how does that work? peas and beans and lentils and _ how does that work? peas and beans and lentils and so _ how does that work? peas and beans and lentils and so on _ how does that work? peas and beans and lentils and so on are _ how does that work? peas and beans and lentils and so on are all- and lentils and so on are all classified as... dry seeds from them rather than the immature seeds, so those crops, many lagoons with their own nitrogen, so they do that from the air, so they don't require nitrogen fertiliser, and not only did they fix nitrogen for themselves, but they also leave a

residue in the soil, which benefits the following crops. so that, of course, offers a great advantage to rewards, and we need to think and broader terms about widening our rotations in the uk because they have become rather limited having wheat, if we can get lagoons back in there, then we have a great advantage in terms of the benefits of the environment. —— legumes. it is surprising that they can be grown quite easily in european climates, that would make a big difference for farmers who not needing to ship this stuff halfway around the world. yes. stuff halfway around the world. yes, absolutel . stuff halfway around the world. yes, absolutely- so _ stuff halfway around the world. yes, absolutely. so soya _ stuff halfway around the world. 1a: absolutely. so soya doesn't have great environmental credentials, not only from our point of view, there are many minds involved, but also the destruction of rain forests and so on. so anything we can do to alleviate our dependency on soya has got to be good news. it is alleviate our dependency on soya has got to be good news.— got to be good news. it is so interesting _ got to be good news. it is so interesting to _ got to be good news. it is so interesting to talk _ got to be good news. it is so interesting to talk to - got to be good news. it is so interesting to talk to about l got to be good news. it is so . interesting to talk to about this. when this research was done all that

time ago, did you ever imagined that it could be put to good use like this today, 30 years or so later? well, like i said, it is part of the package that we really put together of a number of different traits. so we pens focusing on improving the nutrition equality for a whole raft of reasons for the food industry, so this flavour, of course, we didn't anticipate it at the time because it turned out that it wasn't of great value for the vegetable industry because they lost all the flavours for the vegetables, and that wasn't desirable. of course, we didn't anticipate that now in these days, what people really want is a product that has high nutritional value but has no taste or flavour. so then food manufacturers can do what they like effect and a whole variety of products into products don't end up tasting of pea, which is not desirable in many cases. there's nothing wrong with it if you are

eating peas, but of course, for eating peas, but of course, for eating many other products, you don't want them to taste of pea. it's notjust about getting kids to eat their vegetables, is a? lovely to talk to. thank you. one of the scientists on the project. headlines up scientists on the project. headlines up for you next. you are watching the context on bbc news. hello there. we've had two types of weather across the uk today. blue, sunny skies like these and it was warm to where temperatures reached the mid 20s, parts of west scotland and western counties of northern ireland. or the second type of weather — cloud. we've had a lot of that across england, even into parts of east wales. indeed, parts of the midlands and eastern england only had temperatures about 11 degrees underneath the heart of this cloud through the afternoon. so extensive clouds been working in with these winds. and because the cloud has

been about three times thicker than it was, for example, on tuesday, that's why it's been much more reluctant to break up today. now, overnight tonight, the cloud willjust re—thicken and move back inland. indeed, as temperatures drop below ten degrees celsius as they will do underneath this cloud sheet, we're going to start to get quite extensive drizzle. so you might find some patches of drizzle across parts of east scotland, central and eastern areas of england, maybe even getting all the way across to east wales. so, for some, it is likely to be a damp start to the morning, thursday morning. the drizzle lasting for the first couple of hours, then it becomes drier later in the morning. much greater chance of seeing the cloud break up across western areas of the uk where if you do start cloudy, keep the faith, you'll get some sunshine. whereas across east scotland, eastern areas of england, particularly towards the north sea, you may well keep that cloud even into the afternoon. if that happens, it would be another cool day where thejune sunshine pops out. first day of summer. it's going to feel warm. temperatures quite widely getting into the 20s. now on friday, high pressure

is still with us, but it looks like the clouds are going to be much thinner than recent days. and so you've got much better chance of seeing sunny skies as we go through the day on friday. quite a cool breeze for east anglia, quite gusty winds towards the headlands of southern england. but in thejune sunshine, i think for most of us it's going to feel quite pleasant, quite a fresh feel to the day. temperatures again into the low 20s. on into the weekend, the high pressure is still with us to the north—west of the uk. like recent days, that high will be dragging in some clouds from the north atlantic and shoving it down the north sea. and so this weekend is probably going to be something of an east west split with the weather. western areas having the best of the sunshine and the highest temperatures getting into the low to mid 20s, again it will feel warm. whereas across eastern areas of the uk you are likely to come into some slightly thicker cloud at times and temperatures rather than being in the 20s, more likely to be in the teens. but still not bad where the sunshine pops out.

hello, i'm ben thompson. you're watching the context on bbc news. members from all across the conference shared their support for this important bill, and they shared their support for speaker mccarthy's strong and effective leadership. this is a win for the american people and future generations. i support it without hesitation, reservation or trepidation. not because it's perfect, but in divided government, we of course cannot allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good. mr mccarthy believes that he has the votes to be able _ to get this bill passed, i but if you look at the way