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we want justice, we want “ustice, the want to _ we want justice, they want to strangle - _ we want justice, they want to strangle us. - _ we want justice, they want to strangle us. we will march — they want to strangle us. we will march on _ they want to strangle us. 7 will march on moscow. an i say halfway there was because you like a bug. —— squat you. an investigation in lancashire concludes that nicola bulley drowned after accidentally falling into cold water — ruling out suicide. and lewis capaldi announces a break from touring after struggling to finish his set at glastonbury. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news — it's newsday. welcome to the programme. let's start in ukraine, where two russian missiles have hit the centre of the city of kramatorsk in the eastern region of donetsk.
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at least four people have been killed by the strike, which hit a shopping centre and restaurant. the governor of donetsk told ukrainian television the city centre was crowded with civilians when the missiles fell. it's feared people may be trapped under the rubble. meanwhile, president vladimir putin has tried to rally russia's military and security services, thanking them for preventing a civil warfrom breaking out. in a speech, mr putin insisted his rule was not weakened during saturday's rebellion by the wagner mercenaries. he suggested russia's regular military showed restraint by not being drawn into any fighting. our moscow editor steve rosenberg reports. vladimir vladimirovich putin. at the kremlin, it was pomp with a purpose... ..to remind russians he is still in charge around here. waiting for vladimir putin — 2,500 soldiers and guards, and the defence minister the wagner mutineers wanted sacked.
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having survived the rebellion, it was time to say thank you. translation: you defended the constitutional order, - the lives, security, and the freedom of our citizens. you have saved our motherland from upheaval. in fact, you have stopped a civil war. in fact, the reality was rather different. the wagner soldiers, who had been cheered on the streets of rostov, had only stopped their rebellion after the kremlin did a deal with them, promising not to press charges against them and their leader, yevgeny prigozhin. still, kremlin spin is presenting this as a triumph for the president. the mutiny by mercenaries was a major challenge to vladimir putin's authority. but the uprising is over and now the kremlin is trying to change the optics,
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to reframe what happened as a victory for the president and for russia. but where is yevgeny prigozhin? under his deal with the kremlin, he agreed to leave russia for belarus. today, the leader of belarus, alexander lukashenko, said, "yep, he's here." but in exile, could mr prigozhin still be a threat to the kremlin? not if vladimir putin can help it. he's now suggesting that russian investigators might probe the wagner group's finances. a less than subtle hint to the wagner chief not to make trouble. the last few days have put him under huge pressure. now, president putin's determined to show he is in control. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. jeremy bowen has been given us this latest update from the
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ukrainian capital kyiv. you have seen _ ukrainian capital kyiv. you have seen the _ ukrainian capital kyiv. you have seen the awful - ukrainian capital kyiv. wi. have seen the awful scenes in kramatorsk where the attack took place. if the priority today in moscow was a relaunch of president putin, may be part of president putin, may be part of that was to show they could keep up the military pressure. here in the ukrainian capitalised but most of the day talking to senior members of president zelensky�*s administration to see what they make of the current situation. and, of course, there has to be a major pinch of salt when you talk to people who are fighting what they believe, i would is a correctly, as a life—and—death struggle for the independence of this country, but it is interesting nonetheless to get their opinions. and all of them said they believe that president putin was effectively finished, that the countdown was ticking down on his future. and they also said that there were, they believed, groups within moscow who were waiting
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to take the chance to push their preferred candidates for their preferred candidates for the succession when it ended. now, when and if president putin steps down. they emphasise this is the opinion of the leadership here. so you have to accept that, they are looking at it from a certain angle. one more thing, they asked about the progress of the ukrainian offensive and one of the senior advisers said to me said, look, the mutiny didn't make much difference on the battlefield because it didn't last very long. and another one said, when asked about progress, he made a face and did something like that as if to say it's going slowly and they haven't got all that file, though he was, of course, hopeful that things were going to get better from their perspective. and what i think they're trying to is manage expectations. in case any of the western allies get overexcited, because despite
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everything that has happened in moscow the russian army is still a formidable foe for the ukrainians.— ukrainians. that is international - ukrainians. that is| international editor ukrainians. that is - international editorjeremy bowen in here. earlier on spoke with melinda haring. she told me why wooton and luca schenken decided to send yevgeny prigozhin to belarus. alexander lu kashenko is alexander lukashenko is the disgraced leader of belarus. his stock is really low, here's hanging on by a thread. he has at best a bromance with vladimir putin. sometimes they are tight, and sometimes they are tight, and sometimes they are not tight. alexander lukashenko saved putin's bacon over the weekend. putin was facing the biggest threat to his power in 23 years when yevgeny prigozhin took 10,000 armed troops on a much to moscow. putin couldn't get a hold of yevgeny prigozhin, lukashenko was able to get a hold of him and convinced him to stand down and move to
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minsk. minsk is not a happening place. so this is not a very plausible explanation. the bottom line is that prigozhin is now at minsk and the coup is over. and lukashenko is now looking like a grand statesman. and vladimir putin looks weak and is mopping things up. it is fascinating. _ and is mopping things up. it is fascinating. one _ and is mopping things up. it is fascinating. one thing we have already heard from a lot of neighbouring countries is that this may destabilise the continent. is that a bit too extreme or other real concerns about that?— extreme or other real concerns about that? that's too extreme. we saw some — about that? that's too extreme. we saw some baltic _ about that? that's too extreme. we saw some baltic states - about that? that's too extreme. | we saw some baltic states today is a holy cow we don't want prigozhin anywhere near us. that's fair. that's totally fair. but those dates also have, they are under the nato umbrella and prigozhin, you know, he is not the leader of a nation. he has a militia. is he powerful? yes? is he loud, yes? is he obnoxious? yes. but he is
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not a threat vladimir putin as to the security of europe. that is overstated. they understand why they don't want to be his neighbour, i don't want to be his neighbour either.- his neighbour either. things don't and — his neighbour either. things don't and well _ his neighbour either. things don't and well usually - his neighbour either. things don't and well usually for i don't and well usually for people who go head to head with mr putin. what do you think the future holds for prigozhin? monica, thejoe kinnears expert community is that prigozhin should not go near any windows. a lot of vladimir putin's enemies have been pushed out of windows, they have been poisoned, we don't know what the future holds for him. i don't think they are just going to push him out a window though. prigozhin and putin were friends for a long time. he is putin's errand boy and he is very good at errands. he was a chef, he ran the wagner troops in africa, he was in charge of the troll farms. prigozhin is very popular online and he is a good communicator. i think it is a dvd, we have to see how this plays out. but prigozhin's forces are saying they are going to stand down. they were
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offered three choices, they could go to minsk, they could go home, or they could join the russian forces. will this put more pressure on putin who is trying to hold the line in ukraine? probably so. and that is another space to watch. moving to the us. where an audio recording has emerged of donald trump allegedly handling papers and saying they were highly classified during a post—presidential interview. while speaking with an author working on a memoir of his former chief of staff mark meadows, mr trump is heard rifling through papers and saying "this is highly confidential." earlier this month, he appeared at a federal court in miami charged with 37 counts of illegally retaining classified documents and obstructing the government's efforts to get them back. he has denied the charges. this is what he had to say today. this is a continuation of the greatest witch—hunt of all time. that's all it is. and its
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primary purpose is election interference and we're going to let this election be stolen from us. this is a form of rigging the election. because they rigged the presidential election in 2020 and we're not going to allow them read the presidential election of 202a. looking at some other stories in the headlines.— in the headlines. brazil's former president - in the headlines. brazil's former president jair - in the headlines. brazil's - former president jair bolsonaro has former presidentjair bolsonaro has gone on trial, he is accused of abusing his bow and spreading false information about the voting system. if found guilty the supreme electoral court could ban the ex—president from running for office for eight years. the charges revolve around the speech he gave last year while he was still president. a new unilateral ceasefire has been announced in sudan by the head of the parler —— paramilitary group rapid support forces. it was announced in an audio recording
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and will be in place for the muslim holiday of eid al—adha. the united nations is the conflict is elevating to alarming levels. officials in saudi arabia say 1.8 million muslims are performing this year's hajj bill gammage was falls short of the record number of 2.4 million worshippers. saudi arabia had been preparing for that number. it is the first time that all restrictions on attendance have been lifted since the covid pandemic. pilgrims are facing extreme heat with temperatures reaching 48 degrees celsius. officials in california have confirmed that human remains found in the mountains are indeed those of the british actorjulian sands. the 65—year—old went missing during a hike injanuary. mr sands was known for his roles in the oscar—winning film a room with a view and tv dramas 24 and smallville.
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a west coast correspondent sophie long reports. mitch honeychurch! you are not fit enough to go home alone. this is known as george emerson in room with a view, julian sands was a much loved and celebrated actor who starred in many films. he played the journalistjohn sweeney in the dramatisation of the dying days of the khmer rouge in cambodia. the intensity brought to the killing fields went on to captivate audiences around the world. in romantic leads, in villians as well. so world. in romantic leads, in villians as well.— villians as well. so why did ou villians as well. so why did you leave _ villians as well. so why did you leave me _ villians as well. so why did you leave me in _ villians as well. so why did you leave me in los - villians as well. so why did i you leave me in los angeles? because you are sly. you knew all along there was more money here in las vegas.— here in las vegas. born in west yorkshire, _ here in las vegas. born in west yorkshire. he — here in las vegas. born in west yorkshire, he moved _ here in las vegas. born in west yorkshire, he moved to - here in las vegas. born in west yorkshire, he moved to los - yorkshire, he moved to los angeles to pursue his acting career. an immensely cultured man, he loved his art and was equally passionate about the
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outdoors. an experienced mountaineer, he went hiking alone on a cold morning in january and alone on a cold morning in january and never alone on a cold morning in january and never returned home. severe winter storms and extreme alpine conditions hampered continuing efforts to find him. nearly six months after he was last seen alive, when much of the snow had melted, his body was found. his family said they would hold him in their hearts with bright memories of a wonderful father, husband, explorer, lover of the natural world and the arts, and as original and collaborative performer. i as original and collaborative performer-— as original and collaborative performer. as original and collaborative erformer. ~ ., performer. i know the place, it is true. everything _ performer. i know the place, it is true. everything we - performer. i know the place, it is true. everything we do - is true. everything we do corrects the space between death and me and you. in a recent interview, _ death and me and you. in a recent interview, he - death and me and you. in a recent interview, he was i death and me and you. in a recent interview, he was asked when he was happiest. "close to
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a mountain summit on a glorious morning" was his reply. it may come as a small comfort to those who loved and admired him that he ended his days in a place that was always post to his heart. sophie long, bbc news, los angeles. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. voiceover: bringing you different stories from across the uk. climate change is a global problem, but one way to tackle it could be found here. this doctor guides me through a big field of barley in norfolk. this is the sensor. he wants to show me two sensors. so it's sniffing the air, is it, rocky? it is indeed. and the gas is going through these tubes. the gas is called dimethyl sulphide. the barley produces a compound which is turned by microbes in the soil into the gas, also known as dms. it is a gas can essentially contribute to climate cooling. how's that? when this gas evolves and makes
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its way to the atmosphere, it forms cloud condensation nuclei, so it promotes the formation of clouds which reflects solar radiation back into space essentially. no—one knows how much comes from fields of crops far inland and that is what scientists in norwich to find out. voiceover: for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you're live with bbc news. in the uk, a coroner has concluded that nicola bully�*s death was accidental and she didn't have any desire to take her own life. —— bulley. the 45—year—old went missing in the st michael's of wire in lancashire in january. her disappearance prompted a major search which led to intense public interest a social media frenzy of conspiracy theories. the coroner ruled she drowned after falling into cold water.
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our correspondent danny savage has the details. nicola bulley with her dog, willow. a coroner was told she had treated the spaniel like a third child and would never have willingly abandoned it on a riverbank. willow's harness and nicola's phone were found one friday morning injanuary at this spot. the place where nikki bulley accidentally fell into the river wyre. her body wasn't found for three weeks. a period when herfriends desperately appealed for information and social media was filled with unfounded and often cruel speculation. what really happened was a tragic accident. but it's left her family damaged by unfiltered online comment. it is upsetting that we have continued to receive negative, targeted messages and still wildly inaccurate speculation being shared on numerous platforms. we encourage people to look at the facts, the evidence which has been heard during the inquest, and the conclusion reached by the coroner.
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the coroner was told there was nothing in nicola bulley�*s medical records to say she was suicidal. yes, her family acknowledged, she did have a blip last christmas because of the side effects of hrt, and was drinking too much. but she wasn't talking about taking her life. her partner, paul ansell, seen here in february, tearfully told the inquest that when she went missing, she was back on her medication and wasn't drinking. everything was in a good place, he said. all of the evidence pointed to a dreadfully unfortunate event. i hope that his majesty's coroner's clear and definitive findings will put an end to ill—informed speculation and conspiracy theories which have been so damaging to nikki's family and the community of st michael's. this inquest should finally put to an end the speculation surrounding the death of nicola bulley. perhaps now the online voices who suggested anything more sinister will be muted.
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her family nowjust want to focus on who they describe as the most amazing mum who had so many future plans. instead of things said by people who never knew her. danny savage, bbc news, preston. it is the world's longest and perhaps own coral reef system but the great barrier reef in australia is struggling under climate change and this year it faces another threat, the arrival of the el nino weather event. the bureau of meteorology in australia has declared a 70% chance of an el nino developing and work is being done to protect the reef from the worst—case scenario. earlier i spoke to scott heron from james cook university and asked him how much stress el nino will put on the coral. the great barrier _ nino will put on the coral. the great barrier reef— nino will put on the coral. iie: great barrier reef —like nino will put on the coral. tie: great barrier reef —like reefs around the world already under stress and risk from the threat of climate change. so that is a
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pre—existing background condition. the el nino that is forecast and very likely to occur, as we move into the end of this year and beginning of next year, will add a layer of risk onto that for the great barrier reef and many other coral reefs around the world. what preparations are being done right now to protect it? in the same way as you might prepare your body, should a child come home from school with an illness by taking vitamin c, getting extra rest, thatis vitamin c, getting extra rest, that is exactly what we need to be doing now in the austral winter here on the great barrier reef, to help corals prepare. that is short—term as well as longer—term actions that are under way. basically what that involves is minimising either stress or that exist on the reef, so issues around water quality, issues around water quality, issues around water quality, issues around extractive
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fishing. —— stresses. these need to be minimised so that there is a better chance for there is a better chance for the reef to be able to sustain through the disturbance. kind of like taking your vitamin c gives you a better chance of not getting so sick from your kids. in not getting so sick from your kids. . ., ., .,, kids. in addition to those so-called _ kids. in addition to those so-called vitamin - kids. in addition to those so-called vitamin c, i kids. in addition to those | so-called vitamin c, what kids. in addition to those i so-called vitamin c, what are so—called vitamin c, what are some of the technologies you are using all people are using to keep the temperature cooler? as we begin to talk about some of the innovative technology that might help to sustain the reef and support its persistence through these claimant related disturbance events, it is really important to note that this is really early technology. its applicability is really small in scale, and we're talking less than 1% of the reef area on less than 1% of the reefs within the great barrier reef. and there are over 2000 reefs. within those technologies is
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very different ideas being trialed. a lot of that is to do with how can we minimise the heat and the light coming into the reef. some of the ideas trialed have been the use of shade cloth or sprinklers on the surface to increase the reflection and to stop the light and the heat coming into the water. and you can imagine putting up a shade cloth over and expands the size of italy isn't feasible and so it is a very targeted approach that is required here. and there are some other really interesting, innovative techniques that are being trialed and in fact been discussed at conferences here in australia this week. and that involves injecting, spraying seawater up into the atmosphere to generate clouds or to build larger clouds. again, the clouds reflect the sunlight and so they keep the light of the heat up. but once again, i urge caution in this. it is early days in technology
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and it is also very small—scale approaches. lewis capaldi has announced he's taking a break from touring for the "foreseeable future". the scottish singer performed at the glastonbury festival here in the uk over the weekend — but struggled to finish his set. he has 26 days between now and october. —— dates. jon donnison reports. coughing #so...# struggling with his voice and a bad cough on saturday night, lewis capaldi needed a little help. crowd sings and he got it. but he hinted there was maybe more going on. i recently took three weeks off just because i've been non—stop from the start of the year and i wanted to have a kind of wee break for my head, for my mental health. i wanted to come back and do glastonbury because it's
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obviously so incredible, so i just want to thank you all for coming out and watching us. and in a statement this morning, the singer said he was still learning to adjust to the impact of tourette's and that on saturday, it had become obvious he needed to spend much more time getting his mental and physical health in order so he could keep doing what he loved. lewis capaldi is one of around 300,000 people in the uk with tourette's syndrome. it causes involuntary movements or tics and sometimes sounds, although contrary to popular belief, involuntary swearing is rare. in september, the singer spoke to bbc breakfast about tourette's and the challenge of living and performing with the condition. it depends, like, if i've had enough sleep, what i've been eating, what i've been drinking. and it's one of those things where if you're really excited, it's kind of twitchy. if you're nervous, if you're happy, it's weird, if you feel any emotion at all, tourette's seems to come knocking.
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and campaign groups say he's done much to raise awareness of tourette's. when i saw him performing, i could feel his pain. you could just see that he felt deflated from the performance. but what he didn't realise, that in that very moment he was making history. people were accepting him for who he was. regardless of his tics and his mental health difficulties, they were accepting him. and for the tourette's community, that's huge. lewis capaldi described the decision to take a break from touring as the most difficult of his life, and apologising to fans, said he'd be backjust as soon as he was able. john donnison, bbc news. before we go. a still—life fresco, depicting a possible ancient ancestor of the pizza, has been found on the wall of a house in pompeii — the roman city wiped out by an eruption of volcano mount vesuvius 2000 years ago. the fresco was found
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in the atrium of a house with a bakery attached to it. however, it isn't pizza as we know it today, as 2000 years ago tomatoes and mozzarella — the basic ingredients of the pizza — were unknown. that is all we have for you on newsday. i am monica miller. thank you for watching. hello there. it looks like today will be the warmest day of the week, feeling quite humid, especially across england and wales, and it's across england and wales where we should tend to stay dry for much of the day. but there will be a band of rain pushing in across scotland and northern ireland that will continue its journey eastwards during tonight. so, we're in this wedge of warm and humid air, especially for england and wales. this cold front, though, will be pushing rain initially into northern ireland and then into scotland as we run
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through the day and behind it, it'll turn brighter, but there'll be some cooler, fresher air here and the rain will tend to ease down as it pushes its way eastwards. but much of england and wales will stay rather cloudy, generally dry, bar the odd heavy shower and some glimmers of brightness here in there. but it will be warm and muggy, 22 to 25 degrees here. but the mid to high teens, further north and west where it brightens up behind the rain band. but through wednesday night, it looks like that rain band then starts to pepper up as it reaches the midlands, southern and eastern england. so send the rain may turn out to be heavy by the end of the night. and again, it'll be quite a warm, muggy night in the southeast corner, much cooler and fresher further north and west. this is the pressure chart for thursday. there's that weather front, very slow to clear from the southeast. so, it could be quite a wet day here. but elsewhere, it's brighter start to have sunshine around. one or two showers will develop as the cloud bubbles up mainly
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across the north and west of scotland. it'll be breezier, but it'll be wet across east anglia in the southeast, i think, for much of the day. in fact, some very welcome rain here. of course, temperatures are lower across the board, away from the very far southeast. we're looking at 15 to 18 in the north and the west, 20 to 22 for much of england and wales. for friday, though, another set of weather fronts start to spread down across the country thanks to low pressure. so it'll tend to stay quite cloudy and damp, but more isobars on the charts, too. so a breezier day to come on friday, especially around irish sea coast across scotland and northern ireland. it's here where we'll see most of the rain, the heaviest of the rain. but we also some patchy rain pushing into western england and wales. further east that you are tending to stay dry with variable cloud, maybe some glimmers of brightness which could push temperatures up to 22 degrees. otherwise for most, it's the mid to high teens, so feeling fairly fresh for the time of year. into the weekend, low pressure continues to bring sunshine and showers mainly to the north and the west of the country. better chance of staying drier and a little bit warmer further south and east.
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