this is bbc news, the headlines the leader of belarus, alexander lukashenko, gives his first account of negotiations with the wagner boss — yevgeny prigozhin — as russia faced crisis on saturday. vladimir putin is in moscow, thanking russian troops — for protecting the country — during wagner's aborted mutiny. and singer lewis capaldi says he's taking a breakfrom touring , to get his mental and physical

health "in order". two russian measures have the city centre of common source, a shopping centre of common source, a shopping centre and a restaurant we are told have been hit. the centre and a restaurant we are told have been hit-— centre and a restaurant we are told have been hit. the attack happened at around 730 _ have been hit. the attack happened at around 730 local _ have been hit. the attack happened at around 730 local time. _ have been hit. the attack happened at around 730 local time. we - at around 730 local time. we understand a rescue operation is now understand a rescue operation is now under way. the security agencies say they are providing emergency services and they are trying to evacuate, they are victims who are so trapped under the rubble, quite clearly if you look at these pictures. there's a lot of devastation in that area. the interior minister says at least two people have died. 18 people have been injured, including a child. as we said, some still called caught under the debris. this area has a

list of civilians, just 31 miles from the front line in bakhmut. we had an update from the governor of the region, it seemed just over there to meet as pit, torso, we are working to find the missing. this is a city centre, underlining the were civilian targets. there were public meeting spaces that were crowded with civilians. we know this city has already been a target of other russian attacks of late. an attack on the railway station in april of last year that killed 63 people, is significant escalation in bombing russia has denied targeting civilian sites but this a centre for civilians at 30 miles from the front

line. the strikes occur in mid—evening when people may have been out dining or shopping or going about their day—to—day lives two missiles striking the city of kramatorsk more on that i was a get further developments. meanwhile, on the ground in ukraine, kyiv says its counter—offensive against russian forces has made advances �*on all fronts�*. president zelensky has been seen, awarding medals to soldiers who have been fighting in bakhmut in the east of the country. pro—russian commentators, say ukrainian troops have crossed the dnipro river, and retaken a village near kherson in the south. the defence and list patrick buri gave his analysis of ukraine's gains on the battlefield in recent days. i think it's been more of the same. but the general direction of travel, the momentum is with ukraine. so these are small gains. they're significant sort of optically in the seizure of the a part of the canal in the donbas near back which the russians had held for a long time. and they've been

pushed out of there. and so that's sort of significant because they've held it since 2014. i think more potentially operationally significant is, as you mentioned, the small bridgehead over the river and the the dnipro and the kherson region and into into zaporizhia, where there is a small well, it seems like a small number of troops holding out against russian efforts to dislodge them. if they can expand that bridgehead, bring more troops in and then open up another front over time, that could become more of a headache for the russians. so i think they've taken it fairly easily. and it's been a drumbeat, more of the same, more the same, trying to wear down the russian defences. yes, it does feel like some sort of trying to wear down those defences to deplete their resources and maybe just to tire out those russian forces. i wonder and you talk there about the defences, what are the biggest challenges that they face right now? both i guess in the defences that russian forces have put in place. but big questions about where ukraine deploys some

of that military hardware. does it protect the cities or does it move it a little closer to the front line? so that's one of the big questions. you know, the reason the russians have been bombarding the cities is to get kyiv to keep its air defence assets around the cities and then using their own aviation, especially some of their attack helicopters, at standoff positions to hit ukrainian attacks down on the front lines. so that's definitely one of these decision decision dilemmas that zelensky has faced, where to put his air defence and where to protect. and that's something that they're trying to balance. and we've also seen the allies pledge a lot more short range air defence very recently, like the germanjeppards for example, to to get them to the front lines to help the ukrainians solve this problem.

i would add down in the front lines, there's one other very important thing going on that people should keep an eye on, and that is the use of in particular the uk supplied storm shadow missiles to hit russian logistic hubs in the southern region, basically along that train line logistics hubs towards kherson. what they're trying to do is what they did before in the kherson attack, which is to just basically strangle the russians of supplies, drones, ammunition, etc., to to put the squeeze on them while they expand their ammunition. there's less coming through. it makes it harder for them to defend. and it also starts to erode morale. that's a very important shaping and deep battle going on at the moment, which is something to keep an eye on. more now on events in russia. the belarusian leader, alexander lukashenko, has given his first account of negotiations with the wagner chief, yevgeny prigozhin, during the height of the rebellion on saturday. mr lukashenko said he warned the mercenary leader he would be �*crushed like a bug' if he made an attempt on moscow. meanwhile in the russian capital, president putin has thanked troops

for their performance during the mutiny —— saying they had prevented a civil war. and he said the kremlin had been funding the wagner group to the tune of more than a billion dollars over the last year. samantha de bendern from the chatham house think tank told me there's still a lot of confusion over the weekend's events. i feel even more confused than ever. a number of things struck me today in both what putin said and lukashenko said. so putin, first of all, said that the russian government has been financing violence since 2019. that basically means the russian government has been financing an organisation that was illegal in russia, that has committed war crimes, and that basically has now been named a transnational criminal organisation by the us and labelled a terrorist group by a number of parliaments in the world. and putin is admitting having financed this group. i'm not sure whether putin

realises what he's done. so that i found very interesting. secondly, lukashenko gave this press conference, gave this very sort of interesting account of how he had held these negotiations. he then gave a private interview to a talk show host in which he basically said, "oh, poor prigozhin has been used by these wagner people". he got muddled up with these wagner people. and we all know that there are some deputy ministers who are really pulling the strings. now, this to me has muddied the waters even more. lukashenko was going on about how prigozhin is his friend and who gives him wonderful wine. hopes that wagner will be able to teach belarus a little bit about warfare. so this is this is extremely confusing indeed. and i still feel that we're missing a big piece of the puzzle here, or i certainly am. i don't know if other people can see more clearly, but there is a power play that's going on.

lukashenko is also somehow part of this. we've dismissed him as a puppet. there have been rumours that he wasn't the person who actually was the key negotiator, that someone called alexei duman, who is a the governor of the tula region, where wagner stopped, who's often seen as a potential successor to putin because he's fresh blood. he's a former putin bodyguard. so it's really becoming for me anyway, as days go by, what has been going on and the role that prigozhin played is playing and will play seems even more difficult to to understand. the view of the latest events in russia. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. it was one of the falklands war is that it stays. the bombing of the surrey gotthard. if the six men were

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now, captagon is a highly addictive drug that has brought misery to many people across the middle east in recent years. a joint investigation by bbc news arabic with investigative journalism network, 0ccrp, has revealed new direct links between this multi—billion dollar drug trade and leading members of the syrian armed forces. emir nader reports. 0njordan's border with syria, its army is fighting traffickers of a drug called captagon. translation: they are smugglers. 0ur ground forces were informed and were ready for them. they fired directly at them, forcing them to retreat. they were crawling for their lives. captagon is little known outside the middle east, where this highly addictive, highly accessible amphetamine—like pill is wreaking havoc. the syrian regime has been accused of making vast profits from the manufacture and export

of this drug. now bbc news arabic has uncovered fresh evidence about exactly how this trade is being managed by members of the syrian elite. in sweida, close to syria's border withjordan, raji falhout led a militia aligned with the government of bashar al—assad. injuly 2022, falhout�*s bases were overrun by a rival militia. they found this machine, that could be used for pressing captagon, bags of pills, his military id and an unlocked phone. gaining exclusive access to the phone, we found a series of messages describing the purchase of the machine. what do you think, brother? are you sure that the hummer can accommodate the machine? yes. but this drug trade is much larger than one man. in 2021, a trial began in lebanon against a well—known businessman called hassan daqqou.

he was found guilty of captagon trafficking after a shipment was seized in malaysia worth over $1 billion. the case was heard behind closed doors, but we met with the judge to find out what was uncovered. translation: he said he was collaborating i with the fourth division. did he give any evidence of his connection to the fourth division? an id card issued by the fourth division. the fourth division is an elite unit of the syrian army. it's led by president bashar al—assad's brother maher. the judge concluded that there was no evidence of links between syrian officials to daqqou's trafficking, but in a 600 page confidential court document we found a series of whatsapp messages daqqou sent to someone he called �*the boss', whose phone number mostly consists of the same digit repeated many times. it's known as a golden number. translation: this number - was obtained from the company in the very first days and belongs to an important person in the authority.

we've traced the number. high level syrian sources have told us it belongs to major general ghassan bilal. bilal is maher al—assad's number two in the fourth division and is understood to run its powerful security bureau. could you kindly renew the id cards for the guys i sent you? if the boss really is ghassan bilal, the conversation suggests that one of syria's most senior officers is linked to the illegal captagon trade, worth billions of dollars. the syrian government, ghassan bila and raji falhout didn't respond to our questions. hassan daqqou maintained that he's innocent and was working with authorities to prevent drug trafficking. 0nly last month, the arab league welcomed bashar al—assad back to the fold. as arab governments struggle to contain an epidemic of drug abuse, elites within syria continue to profit.

caroline rose is the director of the captagon trade project at the new lines institute — a foreign policy think tank — and when shejoined me from washington a little earlier, i asked her how dangerous this drug can be. so captagon is an amphetamine type stimulant that was first launched on the licit market in the 1960s from a german pharmaceutical company called zigzag. company called. it was used and it was created to treat attention deficit disorders. that would boost productivity amongst its users. but now the chemical composition of captagon as an illicit substance has evolved greatly. and unfortunately, we don't know too much about it, about its chemical inputs, the additives that many producers put inside of it, and then also the range of amphetamine. the very few drug analyses that exist from laboratory reports show that captagon sometimes is not at all or sorry, amphetamine is not

at all present in captagon of tablets. and then sometimes it's up to almost 40% metabolised inside of a pill. they also found that sometimes toxic levels of zinc, copper and other chemical inputs are often found in these captagon tablets. and what does this tell us about how this trade is being able to flourish, not only the manufacture, but the distribution? because this now showing up in africa, in parts of asia and also in europe. what does it tell us about the regime that is aware, seemingly, that this is happening but allowing it to flourish to such an extent? well, i think that these regime aligned actors, they're incredibly creative and they are smart when it comes to the new obstacles that are put in their way to try and constrict the trade. when, for example, they really relied on maritime smuggling routes in 2020 to 2022.

and when maritime ports started to get smart about captagon interdiction, they started to shift to overland routes. they also appreciate and understand captagon's wide and mass appeal amongst users. captagon can be used to stave hunger. it can be used to stave food insecurity, job insecurity, increase productivity. it's used amongst both the poor and the rich within the middle east. it's also very popular amongst armed groups that are looking to use the substance to boost their productivity and their performance on the battlefield. so, because of that, we're starting to see these regime aligned producers and traffickers identify and carve out new markets for demand, new transit markets and new ways to smuggle the drug. and because of that, we're not seeing captagon any more as a strictly middle eastern problem. we're starting to see this trade spill—over to europe and also africa.

artificial intelligence could be used in the treatment of more cancers — after a uk study found it could free up radiologists' time. the technology works by speeding up the process of drawing around healthy organs — that's a vital step in radiotherapy which ensures healthy tissue is protected. the uk government is spending £21 million to help roll out ai more widely — as kate lamble reports. radiotherapy is a life saving treatment for cancer patients. but before machines like this can start to shrink tumours, there's a laborious task for doctors. well, you can actually see here... the radiation target needs to be precisely mapped. medics want to avoid weakening bones or damaging organs. so somehow we've got to kind of avoid dose from each of these areas. if we weaken these bones... carefully plotting each area typically takes between 25 minutes and two hours per patient. it's time medics could spend getting through a backlog or supporting families. so researchers at microsoft have spent more than a decade thinking

about how artificial intelligence could take on that work. what ai can truly help with is really reducing the burden that's placed on clinicians. that was the model that we collaborated on... aditya's team worked with doctors at addenbrooke's hospital in cambridge, who further trained and evaluated their code on real patients — including frank, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer. the people who are looking at this stuff all day long must get quite tired. whereas a computer, it doesn't get tired, itjust keeps doing it. how did it feel to be part of something like that? to be part of a trial? a privilege, i suppose. yeah, a privilege. doctors still check and sign off the ai's work, but in tests they found two thirds of the time, medics didn't feel the need to make any changes. actually, what we found - is that our consultant colleagues preferred to start with the work of the ai than even the work. of their consultant colleagues, which is quite interesting. - the ai is consistent. it doesn't get tired or have its own way of doing things,

and raj and his team are now about to give their programme for prostate and head and neck cancer to a manufacturer, which will ultimately allow any nhs trust to access the technology. this is the first time an ai programme developed within the nhs will be released as a medical imaging device. these hospitals expect to reduce treatment times for their patients. i think it's fantastic that we're able to do this. and what we've agreed _ with the manufacturer is effectively that the nhs will be able to deploy these models at cost. _ those involved believe this could bejust the beginning for al in health care. kate lambert, bbc news. lewis capaldi has announced he's taking a break from touring for the "foreseeable future" to spend more time looking after his physical and mental health. the scottish singer performed at the glastonbury festival here in the uk over the weekend — but struggled to finish his set as he experienced tics linked to his tourette's syndrome.

in a statement on social media, he thanked fans for singing along when he needed it — and he said "i'm still learning to adjust to the impact of my tourette's and on saturday, it became obvious that i need to spend much more time getting my mental and physical health in order so i can keep doing everything i love for a long time to come". let's speak to laurie 0liva — director of musicians' services at the help musicians charity. thank you for being with us. it might look from the outside, someone like lewis capaldi is at the top of his game and it's usually talented, you might think what does he have to worry about? the point is here that it can strike anyone at any time. absolutely. it's exactly that. for lewis capaldi it must�*ve been a difficult decision to step back for a bit and take a break from what she

presumably loves. his livelihood. as you see, we see that happening. it can happen to musicians at any stage of their career. the pressures that artists face and start early on, they can mount as careers get busier and the need to look after yourself and the need to look after yourself and the need to look after yourself and the impact on your mental health is exactly why we started the music minds of service.— minds of service. what are able to rovide in minds of service. what are able to provide in terms _ minds of service. what are able to provide in terms of _ minds of service. what are able to provide in terms of that? - minds of service. what are able to provide in terms of that? i - minds of service. what are able to provide in terms of that? i know i provide in terms of that? i know everyone's different, at different stages in their career, but you look at someone like lewis capaldi and not an overnight success, but he saw female very quickly. suddenly took off, and therefore, perhaps, through no fault of his own, not prepared for what was going to come down the line. ., . , ~ for what was going to come down the line. a , ~ ., h, ., line. exactly. i think that point on not bein: line. exactly. i think that point on not being of— line. exactly. i think that point on not being of the _ line. exactly. i think that point on not being of the repair _ line. exactly. i think that point on not being of the repair is - not being of the repair is important. what we hearfrom not being of the repair is important. what we hear from a not being of the repair is important. what we hearfrom a lot of the musicians we work with at all stages is that there is that continued pressure to take the opportunities as they come. kind of run as is and that means that

sometimes in the week of that, looking after yourself notjust your mental health, we support thousands of musicians with physical health, lewis capaldi has spoken about both aspects of his health and lots of musicians have spoken recently about having a busy career and have an impact on your body and minds. yes, we support in both areas. [30 impact on your body and minds. yes, we support in both areas.— we support in both areas. do you think something _ we support in both areas. do you think something has _ we support in both areas. do you think something has changed - we support in both areas. do you i think something has changed where we support in both areas. do you - think something has changed where we are able to talk about this much more? we have expert someone like lewis capaldi on stage like somewhere at rest from barry to not only acknowledge it but to see so many people in that crowd x but embrace it and have them out question mark it's not civil any more to talk about it question mark it's definitely not taboo any more. it's brave of them to embrace it if

a sub lots of musicians we speak to are concerned about any of the say i'm struggling and not coping, i need to break and rest. i'm not feeling good. when someone like lewis capaldi has come out, and he has been open a few times about the pressures he has faced, he has spoken about being away a lot since christmas, the pressure of being on tour. all of that takes it to us for a musician at any stage, so being able to go out with his platform and say that, i think keeps moving us to a space where we can normalise insane, i'm not ok, and realising that if we love artists and their music, we have to support them as people and that is fantastic in terms of what we saw from lewis capaldi finds at reston marriott singing along and the support on social media after. —— customary for can have a massive role in supporting the music industry and for artists. ., , .,

supporting the music industry and forartists. ., ., for artists. really good to have you with us, for artists. really good to have you with us. really _ for artists. really good to have you with us, really fascinating - with us, really fascinating discussion, and we wish lewis capaldi well for the clear that he would take a little break and he will be back better than ever. really good to have you with us. that is laurie 0liva there. now it is time for the weather. hello again. according to provisional data from the met office, thisjune is going to be the hottest june we've ever seen here in the uk, beating the previous record holding year, which was back in 1940. now, one thing you might notice over the next few days is that we could have some quite red sunrises and sunsets, and that's partly down to what's going on right across the other side of the atlantic, where in eastern canada we continue to see these wildfires rage out of control. and the smoke from these is building up through the atmosphere and is heading the jet stream getting carried across the atlantic, and moving across our skies. it's really high in the atmosphere, so no concerns about air quality. but this smoke high up

in the earth's atmosphere could make those sunrises and sunsets a little bit redder. something to watch out for. that is, of course, if you can see them at all, because we are going to see quite a bit of cloud over the next 24 hours behind this warm front. the warm front, well, humid air will be following that with some brisk south—westerly winds working in. and we're seeing that change to more humid conditions right now. a lot of low cloud for england and wales, northern ireland, too, some patches of drizzle, particularly for wales, western, england and southern areas of england. the drizzle probably quite extensive by the end of the night. and it'll be quite a muggy night for many of us, with temperatures 15—17 degrees quite widely, a bit fresher in northern scotland. for wednesday's forecast, then, we start off with that drizzle. western and southern england, wales too. a band of heavier rain crosses northern ireland and moves into scotland through the day. behind that, we should see something a bit brighter, with some sunshine and some fresher air edging in. but it will feel humid across eastern england. if we do get a bit of sunshine in the east, temperatures could hit 25 degrees. i think it will stay dry, i think, for most in the east, but a different story for thursday. that weather front moves in. it's going to be a slow moving

feature with rain maybe lasting for most of the day, and it could be very heavy as well. the rain probably welcomed for some, though, because in parts of essex we've only seen seven millimetres of rain all month. for most of us, though, thursday is going to be a brighter day, more in the way of sunshine, more comfortable weather, really, with temperatures, high teens to low 20s with those lower levels of humidity working in. certainly, though, for a day because the humidity picks up again through friday and the weekend stays unsettled with low pressure to the north west of the uk. so rain could be affecting scotland and northern ireland quite a bit with showers in the forecast elsewhere.

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