this is bbc news. our main headlines... ukraine says it is moving to offensive operations in what appears to be the start of the much anticipated counteroffensive. services resume after india's whilst train crash in a century. there are calls for a second independent inquiry. a woman once branded as australia's worst killer is pardoned as evidence suggest she was innocent. more of those stories in a moment. but first let's look at the sports. catherine, overto you.

nine of the number one seed iga swiatek is the star attraction on day nine of the french open. she in third round action later against lesia tsurenko as she continues her bid for a third title in four years at roland garros. that match will be on court suzanne lenglen. first out on phillipe chatrier was seventh seed ons jabeur who breezed past american bernarda pera in straight sets for a place in the quarterfinals. casper ruud was beaten in the final by rafael nadal last year, but he's also through to the last 16. by rafael nadal last year, but he's he beat chile's nicholas jarry 7—6, 7—5, 7—5. tottenham are moving closer to appointing ange postecoglou as their new manager. the australian admitted on saturday that his ability to enjoy celtic�*s treblesuccess would soon be disrupted by some �*decision—making' and it seems he's on the verge of taking over at spurs. he watched his celtic team lift the scottish cup on saturday but it seems he's now poised to fill the post that has been vacant since antonio conte�*s departure in march. here's the athletic journalist jack pitt brooke on how the fans are feeling about posteglou's possible appointment.

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an offer has been made to dili and white. joshua who beat white in 2015 posted on social media to say he was unaware of any talks. but they told the bbc that both men want to fight and joshua is closing in on a game in december. women's golf has a new star — american rose zhang won the mizuho americas open on sunday — on her professional debut. she beat major champion jennifer kupcho also in a play—off — and is the first woman in 72 years to win on herfirst professional start. zhang was the best amateur in the world for a record 1111 weeks before turning pro 9 days ago. i'm so thankful. i can't begin to express how amazing this day has been. being under pressure and having the thrills, having the

crowds. i can can't even explain how great, how well—written this holiday have ended. but that play—off definitely provided a bit of flavour and thrill for everyone. so i hope you guys enjoyed the show. h0??? and thrill for everyone. so i hope you guys enjoyed the show. you guys en'oyed the show. how about this, from you guys enjoyed the show. how about this, from 15 — you guys enjoyed the show. how about this, from 15 time _ you guys enjoyed the show. how about this, from 15 time major _ you guys enjoyed the show. how about this, from 15 time major champion - this, from 15 time major champion tiger woods. tiger woods has marked her as one to watch. meanwhile victor is back onto the golf course less than 2a hours after holing that winning putt. he is making good on his promise to his caddie and friend as he contests final qualifying for the us open. that is all this

spot for now. let's head back to the high court of london. to hell and our correspondent covering everything happening there today. bring us up to speed. fix, everything happening there today. bring us up to speed.— everything happening there today. bring us up to speed. a busy day but no sin of bring us up to speed. a busy day but no sign of prince _ bring us up to speed. a busy day but no sign of prince harry _ bring us up to speed. a busy day but no sign of prince harry today. the i no sign of prince harry today. the judge wanted him to come todayjust in case there was some time at the end of the court day in order for him to get into the witness box to begin his evidence. but his lawyer, prince harry's lawyer told the court earlier today that prince harry would not be attending today. he had flown in from america last night, having celebrated his daughter's birthday. it caused a bit of frustration, thejudge birthday. it caused a bit of frustration, the judge said birthday. it caused a bit of frustration, thejudge said he birthday. it caused a bit of frustration, the judge said he was a little surprise that prince harry had not attended court today. from the opposing party, the publishers m

gen, the publishers that prince harry is bringing a case against, their lawyer said that... he criticised prince harry for wasting time by not turning up to court today. but he will be here tomorrow, a big day for him when he will enter the witness box. but today, the high court, we have heard that prince harry's barrister outlining and quite a lot of detail the 33 articles that are at the heart of prince harry's case. he says the information in those articles was obtained through unlawful methods, through unlawful and illegal newsgathering. that supposedly included phone hacking. to give you a quote from prince harry's barrister, he told the court earlier on that prince harry was subjected to unlawful information gathering

activity, right from when he was a young boy at school, there was no time or area in his life when he was safe from this activity. the barrister also said the methods that were used by the publisher, the newspapers, acted like a web around the prince in the hope it would catch the valuable information that it sought through these unlawful means, some of which made it into stories. the court also heard a number of stories and newspaper articles published over decades about prince harry, about his personal life including many about his girlfriend when he was younger, chelsy davy. his on—off relationship with her and the media coverage had on their relationship. the court is still going on, the session are still going on, the session are still going on behind us. but tomorrow, a big day. prince harry is expected to come to court and

barriers are being put up on the street in anticipation for his arrival. he will go into the witness box and be questioned by his barrister and will be cross examined by the opposing barrister from the publisher's side. these kind of encounters are from people who entered the witness box can be incredibly tough.— entered the witness box can be incredibly tough. thank you. as promised. _ incredibly tough. thank you. as promised, let's _ incredibly tough. thank you. as promised, let's return - incredibly tough. thank you. as promised, let's return to - incredibly tough. thank you. as promised, let's return to the i promised, let's return to the situation in ukraine in what appears to be the start of the counteroffensive. kyiv says it is moving forward. let me show you a map of some of the areas where ukrainian forces are believed to have made probing attacks along the south and the eastern lines around bakhmut and also the western parts and in the eastern part of donetsk. especially round the town of all

of this has not been verified. let's speak to the defence intelligence and security expert who worked with the british military for 20 years. justin, your take on what we have seen over the last few hours. i think it is preferred that the start that ukraine as we heard earlier on has asked people to remain quiet about regulation around the offensive. unsurprisingly there is very little verifiable news from the front lines. russia certainly is claiming to have a made a significant attack. the evidence so far suggests it was not as significant as russia's portraying which raises an interesting question of whether they are just trying to bolster their own side's morale a bit. it seems that russian forces are scared of the ukrainian

offensive at the moment and have been waiting for weeks and feel that they are not adequately prepared in they are not adequately prepared in the front line, suddenly not the troops on the cutting—edge. it is not surprising that russia will be trying to talk up this encounter and make it bigger than it was as claim a great success to bolster the resolve of its forces against further action is undoubtedly to come. ~ ., ., .,~ come. what do you make where the vafious come. what do you make where the various activity _ come. what do you make where the various activity and _ come. what do you make where the various activity and flare-ups - come. what do you make where the various activity and flare-ups and i various activity and flare—ups and pushis various activity and flare—ups and push is actually focused? b, big push is actually focused? a big thin for push is actually focused? a big thing for ukraine _ push is actually focused? a big thing for ukraine is _ push is actually focused? a big thing for ukraine is the - push is actually focused? a; thing for ukraine is the ukrainians are obviously going to be quiet about their main effort of attacks, i suspect there will be more than one. but they will obviously try and break pressure on the frontline with attacks like the incidents we have seen the last 2a hours, both to gather information and you can't have too much information and planning of an offensive of this kind, where any guns might be behind

the front lines, you want to draw them out. target those and other assets, the defence locations, you often can't tell until you are in contact with them and firing what is where, even with drones and other things. you can be looking to list on the front lines, identifying opportunities. some of it will be real and some of it will be to keep the russians guessing and some of it may be a faint but if it achieves something, you can pivot very quickly to take advantage of russian weakness. also into russia itself, the borders, keeping the russians off—balance and guessing. build up the information that ukraine needs to make this a success. emil? the information that ukraine needs to make this a success.— to make this a success. only a few weeks ago. _ to make this a success. only a few weeks ago. the — to make this a success. only a few weeks ago, the bbc _ to make this a success. only a few weeks ago, the bbc verified - to make this a success. only a few weeks ago, the bbc verified team | to make this a success. only a few. weeks ago, the bbc verified team is looking at the russian defences, using satellite technology and seeing the preparations from that side in terms of the anticipation of all of this. how bloody are the next few months are likely to be in terms of casualties potentially for both

sides? i of casualties potentially for both sides? .., �* of casualties potentially for both sides? �* ,, . ., of casualties potentially for both sides? ,, . ., ., sides? i can't speculate on the level of casualties _ sides? i can't speculate on the level of casualties and - sides? i can't speculate on the level of casualties and we - sides? i can't speculate on the level of casualties and we all l sides? i can't speculate on the - level of casualties and we all know that we can't calculate how many chad tragedies had been in this war so far. but attacking defence lines is one of the hardest things you can do. it requires high standards of combined arms warfare from ukraine using tanks and infantry and guns and engineers. all together to deliver an effect on the battlefield to be able to overwhelm the russians. it is certainly not going to be a simple task and will be hard fighting. ukraine is shown in the past it is capable of keeping the russians off—balance and exploiting opportunities quickly. if ukraine is able to do that, they were minimal as casualties. moving quickly to shatter the russian ability to fight is very much the western way, the

nato way of war. it's new to the ukrainians, they have shown they can do it on a smaller scale but this is a huge test. if they get bogged down in the defences and becomes more of a slugging match as we've seen so often, that is not what ukraine wants. they need to be able to manoeuvre and capture terrain quickly and keep russians off—balance and get them to recoil like they did kharkiv last year. thank you very much. let's bring in world affairs editorjohn. asjustin wasjust concluding, the reuters news agency telling reuters that ukraine has enough agents to begin its counteroffensive. every its cou nteroffe nsive. every information its counteroffensive. every information points us to the early stages of his much anticipated move. yes, but we are still at the psychological level at the moment.

we are not at a real hard weapons levels yet. we are still at the ukrainian�*s attempt to freak the russians out. an interesting thing is the leader of the battalion in donbas, the pro—russian leader there, he is saying that the situation is difficult and they are starting to see german—made tanks. that had all the filtering of nervousness. the kind of panic. at the moment, as far as we can tell, the moment, as far as we can tell, the ukrainians arejust probing, trying it out. they aren't launching their major blows yet but here is

their major blows yet but here is the head of the battalion saying the situation is getting difficult. we have seen these tanks and i very much doubt whether they have seen any german tanks at the moment. the ukrainians are going to want their german—made and british made tanks to be part of a major push through, not to use them in the earlier stages. that sounds like panic. another thing i thought was interesting is that the head of the famous, infamous you could say, wagner group, is already saying russian troops are dropping back near bakhmut. he is always trying to do the russian, the traditional, the standard russian army. he is away trying to do it down in favour of his own troops. that to sound like

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watching bbc news. when you're flying around on the racecourse going so fast with 100 other people on the knife edge of crashing or winning a race, it's really intense. if you make a small mistake, you really get overtaken by a lot of people. mistake, you really get overtaken by a lot of maple-— a lot of people. they can get close to 40 mph — a lot of people. they can get close to 40 mph and _ a lot of people. they can get close to 40 mph and it's _ a lot of people. they can get close to 40 mph and it's a _ a lot of people. they can get close to 40 mph and it's a winner- a lot of people. they can get close to 40 mph and it's a winner takes| to 40 mph and it's a winner takes all format. with only one place up for grabs in the great britain team, that builds up to a lot of pressure. this is the first time... it a dream to go to the olympics any more. it was becoming something that could be real. this winter was so difficult, i skipped christmas with my family, skipped my 30th birthday, my uncle passed away and i can make the funeral, couldn't be with him in his last moments. the sacrifices, i try

to sacrifice that the news that my performances. you are live with bbc news. a woman described as australia's worst serial killer is being pardoned and freed from jail. new evidence suggests she didn't kill her children after spending 20 years behind bars. 0ur correspondent shows us. kathleen folbigg was australia's most hated woman when she was convicted of the murder of three of her children and the manslaughter of another. they died sudden by between 1989 and 1999, aged between 19 days and 19 months. prosecutors alleged their mother had smothered each of them in a fit of rage. but new scientific evidence has suggested their deaths could have been caused by genetic disorders or mutations. not one single day has

passed where kathleen folbigg didn't maintain her innocence, both fiercely and calmly and collectively. there was never any actual forensic or pathological evidence to say that the children were smothered, or that she committed those crimes that she was convicted of. mrs folbigg has been pardoned and released from prison. the new south wales state attorney general michael daley says the case is tragic. we have got four little bubbas who are dead, we have got a husband and wife who... ..lost each other. a woman has spent 20 years injail. and a family that never had a chance. so, you'd not be human if you didn't feel something about that, wouldn't you? the conviction of kathleen

folbigg, who is now 55, was one of australia's most notorious criminal cases. her exoneration highlights a catastrophic miscarriage of carriage of justice. phil mercer, bbc news, sydney. an incredible story. let's turn to some wonderful pictures that our security correspondent has supplied. the story is around a butterfly that was thought to have been extinct in britain for nearly 100 years has been spotted in london. they appeared in 1925 in small numbers —— but small numbers have been found in the south—east of the capital. the butterfly conservation charity believes insects were released into the world and doesn't know who did

it. our correspondent taking the snaps of these very rare butterflies. you are watching bbc news. let's turn to saudi arabia's first female astronaut who has been describing to the bbc the experience of her trip to the international space station. a capsule carrying have returned safely to earth early in the week. she was accompanied by fellow saudi and fighter pilots and to americans before travelling to the iss to conduct pioneering research. she told the bbc that arriving at the was like being welcomed to a family.

my message to them is, the international space station, us going there, was only the first step, and i'm really keen to see more and more of you learning more about the stem education, science, technology, mathematics, and all the different sectors that will help build the space sector back in saudi arabia especially. we have a legacy of having the first saudi arab man that went all the way to space looking 40 years ago and our mission now is to build on that heritage. it is very important for them to be interested in any field of the space sector. it's not only about astronauts, there are lots of majors that could help build and maintain the space sector back in saudi arabia. early in the programme i was talking to the head of the space agency. we will show you that soon. let's turn

to business now because crude oil prices have risen around 2% after saudi arabian at 0pec+ countries say they will cut production to stabilise oil prices. they said they were make cuts of1 million oils per day injuly which is around 1% of global supplies. day injuly which is around 1% of globalsupplies. 0pec+ day injuly which is around 1% of global supplies. 0pec+ countries which account for around 40% of the world crude oil said they would cut production by around 1.4 million barrels per day from the start of next year. but not all members of the cartel were happy with nigeria and angola wanting to raise production rather than cut it. here is our correspondent on the fissures within 0pec+. is our correspondent on the fissures within 0pec+-_ is our correspondent on the fissures within 0pec+-— within 0pec+. before the meeting started on saturday, _ within 0pec+. before the meeting started on saturday, it _ within 0pec+. before the meeting started on saturday, it was - within 0pec+. before the meeting started on saturday, it was widely| started on saturday, it was widely expected that the whole group would make cuts and from next month to p"°p up make cuts and from next month to prop up prices. but that did not happen. saudi arabia was quite keen

that the whole group influences cuts from july but a lot of members were not in favour of that. if they cut production, it will impact oil revenues and therefore economies. that was the biggest challenge or hurdle which saudi arabia faced during interaction. but they have voluntarily cut 1 million during interaction. but they have voluntarily cut1 million barrels per day of oil. that will have an immediate impact on oil prices but whether it would sustain for a long time, we don't know. even the 1.4 million which comes from next year, there are some countries like the uae which have been asks to increase production is even though some countries like nigeria and angola and possibly russia will make cuts, uae will raise production so it might balance out. it's hard to say whether the cuts from next year will have an impact on the ground. the

champs—elysees in paris has been turned into a giants exam hall as people set out for the record books of the worlds largest dictation. paris's most famous streets like you have never seen before. it has been transformed into a spell of fun. rows of school desks line the avenue. people attempting to transcribe the passage is read out to them. the winners are those who didn't make a single mistake. this was to break the record for the worlds largest dictation. journalists led to the first round. the accepts range from a short story by another list to sports journalism

and a modern text. the avenue turned exists i am —— exam board. we will have all the latest on our main story about ukraine. we are also live at the high courts with the duke of sussex, that legal action as he did not appear today but will take a stand tomorrow. also the latest on the migration figures we are seeing from the house of commons. hello. the weather patterns across the uk have been very static for the last few weeks, meaning many a garden grower are asking, "when is it going to rain?" well, the answer could and only could be with this cloud here affecting madeira and the canary islands. this is storm 0scar, which is going to bring some very wet and windy weather during the rest of

today and tomorrow. butjust notice how that area of low pressure pushes towards our shores as we head towards the weekend, bringing the chance of showers and thunderstorms. however, it does not guarantee rain everywhere. that rainfall could be fairly sporadic. what it will do is change weather patterns — instead of air coming round the north of the uk, it's going to come from the continent, bringing warmer and more humid air. and this weekend, temperatures widely across the uk in the mid if not high 20s and certainly warmer by night too. so that's coming our way. at the moment, many central and western areas have blue skies throughout the day. cloud has again been there towards the east of the country and that cloud will continue to roll back in through the night after retreating towards the coast through the day. notice how it becomes extensive across much of england, towards east wales, good parts of central and eastern scotland too towards dawn tomorrow. clear skies in the west. temperatures down into low or single figures for many, but in many parts it'll be 7 to 10 degrees to start tuesday morning. if anything, though, those grey skies are a bit more abundant on tuesday.

best of the breaks in the west to begin with, the clouds shrinking away in scotland, western england, wales and the south, but could be a bit more stubborn this time across parts of the midlands, yorkshire, lincolnshire and east anglia, pushed in again by that rather nagging east to north—easterly wind, which has been with us for a few weeks now, keeping things cool along those eastern coasts, still again warms to the west, west of scotland to the west of loch lomond, western northern ireland. highs of 23. pollen levels continue to rise across much of england, wales and northern ireland. grass pollen season fully getting underway, as it will be again on wednesday. wednesday, signs that low cloud will shrink a bit quicker and be more lingered across parts of north—east england, many southern and western areas. the sunshine will feel a bit warmer as well. highs again, western scotland, northern ireland and increasingly the south—west of england. but as i mentioned, towards the end of the week, those temperatures will rise further, a chance of a few sporadic showers into the weekend, but that more humid feel by day and by night.