prigozhin himself saying ukraine and nate did not pose a threat to russia. these show cracks in the facade. one person has died and several others injured following a rollercoaster accident at an amusement park in sweden. and — greeks are at the polls for the second time injust over a month — the conservative frontrunners are looking to secure a big majority. now on bbc news — the briefing.

the struggle to take back what is theirs has begun in earnest. this was russian—held ground two weeks ago, and for this brigade, the journey to the front takes longer now. here in the east and the south, there is still a long way to go. ukraine is on the offensive. russia fought hard to keep the ground and this brigade fought harder. step—by—step it was russian mines. this is all russian equipment and uniforms? yes, equipment. rations, everything. we travel to another front and another ukrainian breakthrough.

the men of the 68th brigade fought russian marines for three days to take this village. here is very difficult, very difficult because this is the main difference, the main area of activity for russian soldiers. what we can see here is there has been fighting house to house and room by room, very close? yes, very difficult. andrei is already giving orders for the next attack. it is imminent. translation: listen, it is very important, i you need to listen to people, you need to listen very closely and smile, why are you worried? we are winning this war. with hours to go they're packed up and ready to go to trenches. this specialised drone unit will play a vital part in the assault.

while artillery sounds all around them, they have to move fast to get closer still to russian positions. the cost of this fight is everywhere to see, destroyed western—built armour litters the battlefield but russia has also lost dozens of tanks and vehicles since this offensive began. on a hot day, eastwards, the ukrainian attack begins. this man from the drone unit cannot delay until the shelling stops. the drones he is sending to enemy trenches carry grenades and smoke bombs and they lose as many as five of these a day, and there is more than just artillery to contend with. russian jets are firing every hour, every day, every time.

explosion. good luck. just illustrated the point very well, that one of the big advantages the russians have over the ukrainians is airpower. the ukrainians are attacking on the ground but the russians still have helicopters and warplanes and it makes it much more difficult for them to advance. the battle won, the danger is far from over as we make our way back from the trenches, more russian artillery fire targets this convoy. we need to move fast. and the 49—year—old commander carries the extra burden... the memory of his son. this was his 21—year—old son the day before his death, fighting on the same frontlines as his father. two days before the counteroffensive began, he was killed

by a russian drone. translation: he wanted to be a hero for me. - he wanted to be a hero for me, and he succeeded. i wanted to protect him. but he wanted to be a hero. and he won. ukraine may yet win back its land but there is much here that will never be recovered. for over 1,500 years there have been armenians injerusalem. they have their own quarter of the old city and a share

in its holiest christian sites, but now the community feels under threat because of a murky real estate deal by its own church. it is like a puzzle, we're trying to know what happened, when it happened and how. it appears a jewish australian businessman has leased a large chunk of land for a luxury resort. his firm has a ready taken over this car park and locals fear this is just the start. this deal may put in great danger the long—term armenian presence injerusalem and this is our spiritual homeland. as the orthodox easter celebrations took place in april, alarm was spreading. the armenian patriarch said he had signed away the land but blamed a priest for deceiving him. armenians later yelled out traitor as the defrocked priest

fled, protected by israeli police. now many in the 2,000 strong armenian community have been joining weekly protests. the armenian patriarch is cloistered in his rooms. he has put himself in the midst of a political storm. in the decade since israel captured and occupied the old city, it has been at the core of its struggle with the palestinians. nearby at the iconic entrance to the christian quarter, a reminder of how plots of land here are fiercely fought over. two palestinian—run hotels were secretly sold to radical jewish settlers by the greek orthodox church and it lost a long israeli court battle to cancel the deal. now palestinian christians say the armenian sell—off has wide implications. it enforces the illegal sale of presence injerusalem and therefore undermines

any political solution. on top of that, it infringes upon the mosaic of the old city ofjerusalem where diversity is the main character of the city. armenians are famous for their colourful pottery. this man is from one of the families that moved tojerusalem a century ago, bringing the tradition. he says that armenians have historically donated money to buy land here and that the church has no right to sell it. this is what makes us angry. these lands belong to the armenian nation, not the patriarchate ofjerusalem. the armenian patriarchate takes care of these to preserve them and take care of them. now while age—old armenian church rituals continue, the patriarch, facing international pressure, isn't joining in. as the armenian community worries about the next

steps, this controversy has touch sensitive nerves in the home city. new to this community, bottled water for sale at the roadside. for the residents of this sprawling township outside the capital pretoria, access to clean drinking water has become a necessity. people here are now facing a cholera outbreak, which is spread through unsafe drinking water. ageing infrastructure and poor maintenance of water treatment facilities are partly to blame. but the community is also struggling with crippling power cuts, many south africans are without electricity for up to eight hours a day. and with no energy to power water pumps, homes are left with dry taps,

sometimes for days. this is one of the main dams supplying water to the country's economic hub, johannesburg. it is also part of a larger system that provides water to dams across many provinces of the country. so it is quite important but it is many kilometres away from the communities that need it and sometimes there are problems with getting the water from here all the way to them. we have built these massive pumping systems that take water into the economic heartland. that is dependent on a surplus supply of electricity, which we no longer have. then of course every single drop of water has to be pumped. one fifth of electricity goes to that, a significant number. spurred by fears of water insecurity, a growing number of people have started to build boreholes and water tanks in their backyards. but this is an expensive exercise.

for a team like this to come out, you're looking ataround $7,000. that is about 130,000 rands, something the majority of south africans would not afford to do. and for those that cannot afford it, their hope is that water companies have a plan to keep the service running. so what are they doing? they have forced us to accelerate and introduce dependency on external energy. the next year or so will operate at 10% and will be losing and we need to convert that energy into energy to pump the water stations. south africa is a water—scarce country but experts say its current water woes are man—made, caused by years of neglect and poor investment. now, vulnerable communities are the ones paying the price.

we are in ghana, in west africa. there are new warnings that the international recruitment of nurses by high income countries is destabilising the healthcare systems of poorer countries. there are salary issues and working conditions, a lot is not going on in ghana when it comes to the health services. increasing numbers of specialist nurses have left africa for better paid jobs overseas. all our critical care nurses and experienced nurses are all going to them. we have been investigating the impact this is having on ghana's population. if we lose public health nurses, then the babies

that have to be immunised will not get their required immunisation and we are going to have babies dying. the situation is out of control. we have been having intense recruitment taking place, mainly driven by six or seven high income countries. ghana is one of the world's biggest producers of both gold and cocoa, but it is suffering its worst economic crisis in a generation, with raging inflation. the country has been struggling to recover from the combined effects of the global covid pandemic and the war in ukraine. it has allocated nearly 8% of its budget to health spending, the country is reliant on an imf bailout programme to pay public—sector wages.

this is ghana's best equipped hospital in the capital, accra. it does not feel that different to the hospitals i am used to reporting on at home in the uk. the staff are highly trained but there is a fundamental problem, according to the head of nursing. where have you brought me? to the second floor, there is a main icu. what is the effect, are you noticing nurses leaving? yes, the icu nurses are leaving and they are those who take care of the seriously ill, they are experienced and trained, and if it happens that we are losing them, it is a great bother to us. where are they going? to the uk, us, to greener pastures. right. yeah. how many are you losing per month? in six months,

almost 20 icu nurses. right. in theatre recovery, this nurse wants to go to the uk and is watching a video about how much more she would be paid overseas. i ask if she knows anyone else who has left? a lot of us. a lot of us, notjust in this hospital but those i graduated with from school about 50% have left. 50%, to other countries? yes, specifically the uk. the cost of living in ghana is one of the big push factors for nurses like this. i am a wife, i have a son and husband and he is receiving a little, i'm also receiving a little from my workplace. i have a son i have to take care of, to take to school and all of that, so

with that small amount of salaries both of us receive, we can't bring up our son. it's notjust the uk benefiting from these strong push factors. other english—speaking countries like canada, the usa and ireland are also attracting nurses. i spoke to howard catton from the international council of nurses. my sense is that the situation currently is out of control. we have intense recruitment taking place, mainly driven by six or seven high income countries, but with recruitment from those countries who are some of the most weakest and vulnerable who could ill afford to lose their nurses. to be blunt, do you think it is right that countries like the uk take so many nurses, even if they're not doing it in an aggressive recruitment fashion? we know very clearly that this is doing harm to those health systems. sometimes, their health services just have to stop

because they've got nobody to replace them and for people who say, "well, that's a problem for those countries, not for the uk, not for the richer parts of the world," the pandemic has taught us that infectious disease does not stop at national borders. well, we've been in two departments now, both in icu and theatre recovery here, and it's clear that nurses are leaving in droves. and if that's tough for a big hospital here in accra, imagine what it might be like for a much smaller, more rural hospital. it's immunisation day at kwaso clinic near kumasi. outside, mothers from miles around have turned up with their babies. inside the clinic, the emergency waiting room is full while other routine antenatal appointments take place, too.

the nurses we met here said they could earn seven times what they earn now if they go abroad. they currently earn about $300 a month. every day, the senior nurse here lives in dread that another staff member might quit. even one person leaves, it becomes a habit for the rest of us because the patients come and they are choked — we don't have enough nurses to work on them and then, the workload becomes too much for all of us here so, definitely, it's a very, very blow for we who are around now. this graph shows the big rise in the number of ghanaian nurses signing on the uk's nursing register. in the last financial year, 1,200 ghanaiansjoined it, ready for work in the uk. by comparison, european nurse registrations have fallen. in britain itself, nhs vacancies are running at high levels. ten years ago, healthcare

trusts were recruiting many spanish and portuguese nurses but brexit has made it harder for them to come to the uk following the end to freedom of movement. i asked the world health organization's head of workforce what he made of the switch. the labour market is extremely competitive around the world and having closed off the potential labour market from the european freedom of movement, what we are seeing is the consequence of that in terms of attracting people from the former commonwealth and otherjurisdictions. do you think that britain should be pivoting away from this method of bolstering staff vacancies? i look forward to the pending announcement — i understand — of the uk's new workforce strategy for the next five, ten and 15 years, which has been under development for many years. we look forward to that. media in the uk have suggested that it will deliberately look

at education — domestic capacity and education — to offset a dependency and reliance on international migration. we took a three—hour drive from accra to cape coast. the idyllic beaches disguise the fact that this is one of ghana's most deprived regions. cape coast's municipal hospital is kept running by the steady hand of caroline agbodza. she's passionate about what she does but says her own daughters have been put off careers in nursing after watching their mother's growing workload. i am the chief nurse. i've lost 22 of them and they're all the critical ca re nurses. the perioperative nurses, the critical care nurses and all the professionals, they are leaving. so now, currently, we have only the auxiliary who are the raw

nurses, the help is not here to do the work for us. but the professionals, they all moved out. all our critical care nurses, experienced nurses, are all going to them. so virtually, we end up having nothing, no experienced staff to work with. even if the government recruits, we have to go through the pain of training them again. we have to train them before they get where we lost all of those people. britain did recently give ghana some aid money to boost its health workforce but here, they have little confidence it will make a difference. the money will come, we don't know what the government will be using it for and it will not be to our benefit. maybe a few ones but we are looking at our salaries. the market is so hard, the country is hard for us to work in. ghana's economic problems mean there's no money to fund the next generation of nurses.

we were told many times that newly trained nurses are sitting at home, unemployed, waiting for clearance. that's added to the fact that older, more experienced nurses, are leaving, too. we asked ghana's health ministry for an interview for this programme, but it declined. meanwhile, at smaller healthcare centres like this one, they struggle with serious staffing issues. this is one of the busiest hospitals i've seen so far. as you can see, there's a full waiting room and they have 150 patients coming through their doors every day. and the issue is this — that the nurses who are leaving are some of the most experienced nurses ghana has. it's pretty busy today. doctorjustice arthur has worked in the ghanaian health service for more than 30 years and is the most senior doctor at ewim clinic. he's particularly passionate about preventative care. the impact is enormous.

let's take services like immunisation of children. if we lose public health nurses, then the babies that have to be immunised will not get their required immunisation and we are going to have babies die. then, there are critical care nurses, so if you lose them, it will take time to train them. and while they are away and while you are training, you might get people who need services dying. in the emergency room here, they lost a very experienced nurse to the uk. prince has dedicated his career to the patients in the clinic, so he struggles with the fact his colleague has left. our colleague was trying to help the people of ghana. he's not from the uk, he's from ghana, so the essence is we trained him for the system, or the government trained him, to provide care to ghanaians first of all.

the patients themselves are the ones left at risk. translation: it brings hardship to them and their families. - the nurses don't make any money. talk about giving theirfamily some. so the monetary aspect is huge. the nurse will not get money, so cannot give his mother money. and for me as a patient, when i come here, there'll be no—one to take care of me. the place will be empty. translation: because the nurses here are few and the patients - are more, it can cause deaths in the hospitals. so, if you can, please, offer us help in ghanaian hospitals. despite the huge rise in the numbers of ghanaians being recruited by the nhs, the uk insists it does not recruit actively from countries with the most fragile healthcare systems.

however, the ghanaian health minister said in december his country had been in talks with the british government to formalise the recruitment process. we are engaging with the government of the united kingdom about signing a memorandum of agreement after cabinet approval to begin to send nurses, even the certificate nurses, to go for training and work there and come back home after three years. one—to—one country deals are a way of circumventing the world health organization's guidance not to recruit systematically in countries with low nurse density. deals that have been put in place smack more of trying to create some veneer of ethical respectability, rather than a proper reflection of the true costs to the countries that are losing their nurses. in the hospitals we visited, they carry on the daily rounds

as best they can, but the retention crisis goes on. the exodus of nurses is not going to stop because of our poor conditions of service. like, our salary is nothing to write home. within two weeks, you spend it. it's from hand to mouth. this continent is used to outsiders wanting its precious resources. today, that precious resource is nurses.

hello, in some parts of the country it is roasting and could be the hottest day of the year so far but it is changing in other areas and we are getting cooler, fresher air coming in from the atlantic into western parts of the uk. humid air towards the east and in between a weather front, that is going to bring rain. not much in the south but some heavier rain moving across northern areas, some thunderstorms, large hail and maybe some gusty winds as well. all squeezing the heat and humidity into eastern england, 30 degrees around lincolnshire, 32 or more in essex and around london, really humid as well. out towards the west things are beginning to cool down a bit and it will be less humid. the wetter weather we have got across those northern areas does push away into the north sea, the showers become fewer and lighter and many places become dry overnight but with some clear skies. last night was really uncomfortable for sleeping, temperatures in scotland fell no lower than 20 degrees, in crosby in merseyside 19 celsius.

tonight will be somewhat easier to sleep because temperatures are going to be lower, perhaps single figures in scotland and northern ireland. heading into tomorrow there will be some sunny spells, some cloud will develop and that is going to lead to some showers. scotland, northern ireland and northern parts of england, any shower cloud will be suppressed for the south. it will feel cooler and fresher everywhere, temperatures dropping some seven or 8 degrees in large parts of the uk, top temperatures 23, maybe 2a in the south—east. everything is coming in from the atlantic, a fresh westerly breeze around. these weather fronts will arrive on tuesday so we will see more cloud come our way. once again, looking dry toward south—eastern areas but there will be outbreaks of rain and drizzle as you head further north and more of a breeze as well. these are the temperatures we are looking at, typically around 20—22 . could be warm overnight for south—eastern parts of the uk,

heading into wednesday we're in a warmsector between those two weather fronts. cooler air will be waiting to coming back from the atlantic from the north—west, following this band of rain that will be affecting scotland and northern ireland, pushing into england and wales once again. those temperatures dropping away in the north—west, we'll get some sunshine and showers. still dry and quite warm in the south—east, mid 20s. live from london, this is bbc news. live from london, this is bbc news. the whereabouts of wagner mercenary the whereabouts of wagner mercenary boss ngeney priogzhin are unknown boss ngeney priogzhin are unknown following a deal reportedly struck following a deal reportedly struck by belarus for him to leave russia. by belarus for him to leave russia. the top us diplomat says the events the top us diplomat says the events show that cracks are emerging show that cracks are emerging in putin's authority. in putin's authority.

prigozhin himself saying they did not pose a threat to ukraine. these create cracks in the facade.