ukraine's president zelenksy says russia has launched around 120 missiles and 90 drones in a "massive" combined air strike on his country's energy structure. at least 10 people have been killed. the foreign minister andriy sybiha described it as "one of the largest russian air attacks... against peaceful cities, sleeping civilians, critical infrastructure." ukraine's energy operator announced "emergency power cuts" in the kyiv region. the bombardment also forced power cuts in two regions in the east. people in kyiv immediately made their way to underground stations to shelter from the assault. after the attack, emergency workers began examining the damage. the debris of a missile was lifted from one residential building in the capital. also struck were mykolaiv and the black sea port

of odesa, which experienced a city—wide power cut. and neigbouring poland says it's scrambled fighter jets. in a statement, warsaw confirmed that operations by polish and allied aircraft were under way. russia's defence ministry claimed it attacked facilities that support ukraine's defence industry. president of neighbouring moldova, maia sandu, has "strongly condemned russia's massive air strikes". on his x account, president zelensky shared video from the scenes of sunday's attacks. the video was given an audio track, and is a call for more support from ukraine's allies. we will shortly go live to kyiv to speak to a ukrainian

politician. but first we can have an update. our correspondent paul adams joined us from dnipro. we had sirens in the early hours, and the latest information from the city was that two railway workers were killed, among five people killed across the country overnight, in what seems to have been the largest concerted russian drone and missile attack, certainly since early september. and it does seem as though the principal targets were once again ukraine's energy infrastructure. i was speaking to someone from one of the largest energy companies just a short time ago who said, it looks like they're starting again. in other words, as winter arrives and we have had the first snow here in the last few days, once again russia turns its attention to ukraine's energy infrastructure in an attempt to plunge this country into darkness during the most difficult months. so whether that is the beginning of such a campaign, we don't know. but it certainly looks that way. and from one end of the country to the other, we have had

interruptions to power and a number of significant energy infrastructure targets hit, although we're not being told which ones. and paul, just to bring you up to date, the russian defence ministry is saying, and this is coming to us via the reuters news agency, that these energy infrastructure facilities, they're accusing them of supporting defence industry and military enterprises, which is why arguably they're saying that's why they targeted them. but arguably we're also hearing from russia's foreign minister saying that civilians were targeted, that people were sleeping in their beds, they were targeted. so an ongoing escalation of what is a conflict already at crisis point. yes. i mean, what keeps a country going? it's the energy generating facilities and that keeps people warm. and it also, of course, enables the country's industries, including their military industries, to keep functioning. so you attack the power infrastructure, you affect the entire country.

and it is inevitable when these attacks are launched, that civilians do end up being caught in it, either by direct strikes from missiles and drones, or by fragments of both missiles and drones being intercepted overhead. none of this would be happening if russian attacks on ukraine's infrastructure were not happening. it is part of what one senses is an effort by both sides to try and maximise their positions ahead of what is widely anticipated to be some change in us policy once donald trump takes office early next year. we're seeing the russians gradually edging forward along the eastern front, and we're seeing the ukrainians clinging on to that tiny fragment of russian territory in the kursk region. everyone knows that the policy that the biden administration has pursued over the past few years could be about to change, and change quite dramatically.

president zelensky himself said just the other night that the war could be over next year. there's a feeling that things are going to change. no—one quite knows how. paul adams whojoined us earlier on from dnipro in the east of ukraine. let's speak to mariya ionova in kyiv, ukrainian mp representing the european solidarity party and a member of the foreign affairs committee of the ukrainian parliament. bring us up—to—date the situation on the ground there and arguably your frustration seeing this huge missile strike across the whole of the country. across the whole of the country-— across the whole of the count . ., ., country. thank you for your invitation. _ country. thank you for your invitation. the _ country. thank you for your invitation. the situation - country. thank you for your invitation. the situation is. invitation. the situation is the same. also when the russian invasion started years ago and

today. because in all these years putin would like to just erase us from the world map. it's our existential fight and that's why, yes, he would like to freeze us, he is killing us, it is a genocide on ukraine. todayit it is a genocide on ukraine. today it is missiles. it is not going to stop. we realise that. because recently, before, the missile attacks we had shelling attacks every day, more than 80 every night. it means that especially after all these telephone calls by european leaders and other leaders, who probably they think that putin is thinking about negotiation. no, putin thinks about the capitulation of ukraine and democracy and that will be the

capitulation of the whole democratic country. in this regard the best answer is more defence for ukraine, more missiles, more weaponry and ammunition for our armed forces, just to protect our people. and also i would like that the strategy about russia to defeat them should be one of the biggest weapons also. we see that unfortunately, yes, we absolutely appreciate the whole support we have, financial, military, humanitarian, but again i know that all our partners, they have everything in their pockets to defeat russia. and unfortunately we still cannot see this strategy on the ground because between statements and what we have in reality on our front line, there is a big gap. and again,

we also appreciate all the solidarity, but it's not enough. we really need more decisive decisions.— decisive decisions. when you talk about — decisive decisions. when you talk about those _ decisive decisions. when you talk about those phone - decisive decisions. when youj talk about those phone calls, you are referring to germany's 0laf scholz speaking to president putin. during that call president putin reminded 0laf scholz about the planning, the piece planning and victory planning he would like to see which is very different, obviously, to what volodymyr zelensky wants to see. when volodymyr zelensky says he wants this war to end in 2025 by diplomatic means, what does that look like to you? fit that look like to you? of course we _ that look like to you? of course we are so contrary, we wish to have peace yesterday, as soon as possible. because we are losing our people, lives. you named ten people today. yesterday, the whole family, a

few days ago, a mother and three kids. the smallest was only two months. everyday there are tragedies and disaster. and of course we would like to have peace as soon as possible. but for this we really need our partners to show powerful language to putin because he is also uniting with china, iran. and look at the brics summit, he became more powerful, especially in his military industry. do you think the sanctions influence in very painfully? no, sanctions are not enough. there are not enough sanctions in the banking sector, in the oil and gas sector, in the oil and gas sector, in the nuclearfuel sector. it's not enough, unfortunately. that's why when

we hear from unfortunately. that's why when we hearfrom our unfortunately. that's why when we hear from our friends unfortunately. that's why when we hearfrom ourfriends who are helping us a lot, we see that some negotiations to stop, to freeze, it is impossible because putin doesn't want to freeze. he shows it every day that he would like us just to be killed. he doesn't want ukraine to exist. that's why when our friends will realise that putin doesn't want us to exist, then the strategy i hope will change and we will have everything on our front line, we will have everything from the sanction policy to defeat him, to show that democracy, also we should not only defend it, but we can fight altogether for democracy. and in this regard, when president zelensky, when all our nation is sacrificing, we would like our friends to be with us, to defeat russia, notjust to

weaken them, to stop them, to freeze them, because again, it's not putin's plan. putin's plan is to kill each ukrainian and erase us from the world map. at and erase us from the world ma -. �* , and erase us from the world ma n . �* , ., and erase us from the world ma. �* , ., «a, ., map. a member of the ukrainian parliament. _ map. a member of the ukrainian parliament, thank _ map. a member of the ukrainian parliament, thank you _ map. a member of the ukrainian parliament, thank you for - parliament, thank you for joining us live from kyiv. to berlin now where russian opposition figures including alexey navalny�*s widow, yulia navalnya, are taking part in an anti—war demonstration against russian president putin. let's speak to our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford who is in berlin for us. bring us up—to—date on the protest. bring us up-to-date on the rotest. ,., ., protest. the point of the rotest protest. the point of the protest basically - protest. the point of the protest basically is - protest. the point of the protest basically is that l protest. the point of the i protest basically is that it's impossible to protest in russia itself these days. so many russians are now in exile who oppose vladimir putin and they decided to call this rally now against putin and against the

full—scale invasion of ukraine and also calling for the freeing and release of political prisoners within russia itself. the people who are leading today's gathering, the rally and march through berlin include yulia navalnya, the widow of alexei navalny, who died in prison earlier this year. it is also led by vladimir karen moser, who was also a political prisoner who was released in august and brought eventually to germany. and also another prominent figure in russian opposition who is now in enforced exile. he was in prison because he had spoken out against the war on ukraine, had spoken out inside russia itself. he had a youtube channel and talked about the massacre in bucha. he was released in august from prison. they were hoping to gather a huge crowd here to shout their opposition to vladimir putin

and the full—scale invasion of ukraine. there are a lot of slogans of support for ukraine in the crowd and a lot of anti—putin slogans as well. the gathering itself is not massive, maybe 2000 people at this point. it hasn't started yet. when people begin to march they will head through the centre of berlin to the gates of the russian embassy where they will continue to shout those slogans. i think the importance of this is that for the first time those prominent figures from within the russian opposition have tried to bring people together, not only to denounce vladimir putin but also denounce his war and russia's war on ukraine. sarah rainsford. _ russia's war on ukraine. sarah rainsford, as _ russia's war on ukraine. sarah rainsford, as always, - russia's war on ukraine. sarah rainsford, as always, thank. russia's war on ukraine. sarah l rainsford, as always, thank you for bringing that to us and we will come back to you throughout that protest taking place in berlin. dozens of people have been killed when israel launched numerous air strikes in both gaza and lebanon. in northern gaza, a multi—storey building housing palestinians has been struck in beit lahia. officials from gaza's civil defence agency say at least

26 people were killed in an israeli air strike, with more than 50 trapped in the rubble. six families were living in the stricken building. the israeli military says it is investigating the reports. there have been israeli strikes elsewhere in gaza. these pictures of al—aqsa martyrs hospital in deir al—balah were filmed by our freelancer as israel does not allowjournalists free access to gaza. children were among those injured taken to the hospital. and these are live pictures from beirut, where an israeli air strike is reported to have killed hezbollah�*s media chief, mohammed afif — one of the few remaining public faces of the group.

he was last seen on monday, when he gave a news conference in beirut�*s southern suburbs, where hezbollah is headquartered. 0ur security correspondent frank gardner is injerusalem and has more on the attacks in gaza. yeah, so this does appear to be a particularly high casualty toll, it was a five—storey, multi—storey building, a residential building, we are told, that was housing dozens of palestinian families. and this was targeted a short while ago. the local reports are saying at least 26 people have been killed with another 59 missing. so the horrific images of bodies being pulled out of the rubble, of twisted concrete and so on. we did put in a call to the israeli military

about two hours ago. they say they are investigating and they will get back to us. it is part of an ongoing pattern, this, where israel is still fighting the remnants of hamas, the hamas group that led those horrific attacks in october last year. israel says they are targeting using precision guided munitions various cells, trying to stop hamas regrouping, and that the war will not end until they feel they have defeated hamas. but an awfully large number, a horrifically high number of civilians are getting killed in this and this does appear to be another example of that. as you mentioned in the introduction, in the queue there were other incidents as well today, in a place called bureij, which is a refugee camp, where at least ten people were killed in an air strike including reportedly women and children. so there are a lot of casualties particularly in areas of gaza known as beit hanoun, jabalia and the one i mentioned earlier.

and that's just gaza. and you want to ask about lebanon. i do indeed. even earlier today we saw plumes of smoke in southern beirut once again. yes, so the israeli air force has been very active there. the military on the ground hasn't gone that far into lebanon. they are not doing a really big... well, it is an invasion but it's not a big one. they are concentrating their forces really inside a kind of very narrow border strip about five kilometres from the israeli—lebanon border. frank gardner joining us from jerusalem. northamptonshire police have named a woman found dead in the boot of a car in east london on thursday. detectives say they believe that harshita brella, who was 2a and from corby, may have been attacked by someone she knew

but are keeping an open mind. now it's time for a look at today's sport with hugh ferris. hello from the bbc sport centre. starting with golf. rory mcilroy finished the 2024 golf season in style, winning his third dp world tour championship — and the sixth race to dubai title of his career. the northern irishman only needed a top—ii finish to reach the summit of the season rankings, but won the tournament, finishing one shot clear of rasmus hojgaard. the world number three joins spanish great seve ballesteros in second place in the all—time list, with six order of merit triumphs, with only colin montgomerie ahead of the pair with eight victories. rugby union's autumn internationals continue later. and after england suffered their fifth straight defeat yesterday, wales are looking to avoid an historic loss today in cardiff. warren gatland's side host australia, having

lost their last 10 matches. never before have they lost 11 in a row. there have been games where we have not been able to get across the finishing line and some close fixtures. we need to be able to do that. but if a decision is made in terms of what you are talking about then i am more than comfortable about that. i have been around the game for long enough. before that match in cardiff, italy look to bounce back from a heavy defeat to argentina when they welcome georgia in genoa. the last meeting a couple of years ago saw georgia pull off a shock win. harry kane will return to the team for england's final nations league game, with england knowing a win over the republic of ireland will secure promotion back into the competition's top tier. the captain was left out for the crucial victory in greece on thursday, with interim boss lee carsley claiming it's part of showing the incoming thomas tuchel what the team can offer. kane is not only concerned

with keeping his place in the side, but also maintaining the right culture within the squad for the new manager. it takes a long time to build, and maybe not so long to lose if you're not careful. but i think we're well aware of that. like i said, the experienced players, i think, lee's done a greatjob and i'm sure thomas will come in and have his own ideas and ways that he wants to build his culture. and yeah, ultimately we've had some really good tournaments and it's about using that experience and sharing some of those experiences to players who haven't had as much exposure to that. in the other game in that group, greece need to beat finland and hope england don't beat ireland to secure promotion. should italy avoid defeat against france by two goals or more, they will finish top of group a2. and austria will be promoted to league a if they beat slovenia. katie boulter and emma raducanu will attempt to take great britain one step closer to their first ever

billiejean king cup later. they're playing canada in the quarter finals in malaga. the winners of that tie will face either australia or slovakia. it's slovakia who hold the lead in that one, after viktoria hruncakova overcame kimberly birrell in the first match of the day. antony davis scored 31 points as the los angeles lakers extended their winning streak to five games with a 104—99 victory over the new orleans pelicans on saturday night. meanwhile the reigning nba champions the boston celtics needed a buzzer beating 3—pointer in overtime from jayson tatum to see off the toronto raptors at home. tatum finished with 2a points, as toronto recorded a seventh—straight defeat. and jon jones cemented his status as one of the best mixed martial artists of all time as he stopped stipe miocic to retain his heavyweight title at ufc 309. jones dropped miocic with a spinning back kick in the third round at

new york's madison square garden to record the first successful defence of his heavyweight belt. jones says he plans to continue his ufc career at the age of 37 but didn't confirm if his next fight will be against britain's interim champion tom aspinall. and that's all the sport for now. us presidentjoe biden has met the chinese leader, xijinping, in what looks to be their last meeting of mr biden�*s presidency. meeting on the sidelines of the asia—pacific economic summit in peru, president xi described the relationship between china and the us as having "ups and downs" but said he was striving for a smooth transition with the incoming trump administration. during discussions, the white house said the us president raised north korea's deployment of troops to ukraine, as well as china's activities near taiwan. in opening remarks, mr biden reflected on his relationship with xi jinping over the past several years.

we haven't always agreed, but our conversations have always been candid and always been frank. we have never kidded one another, we have been level with one another, and i think that's vital. these conversations prevent miscalculations and they ensure the competition between our two countries will not veer into conflict. competition, not conflict. competition, not conflict. that's our responsibility, to our people, and as you indicated to the people around the world. we are the most important alliance, the most important alliance, the most important relationship in the entire world. 0ur correspondent jessica parker sent this report from florida. this wasjoe biden and xijinping's last leaders' meeting. a white house official recently said that mr biden had shown that the two countries can and must manage their differences. butjoe biden�*s time to manage

anything of this kind, of course, is fast running out. lots of focus now on what donald trump will do in office. and he's signalled an intention to take a tough line on beijing. meanwhile, the transition process goes on. here in west palm beach, really the hq of that, where donald trump has his mar—a—lago home. and he's announced his pick for energy secretary, an oil and gas boss called chris wright, who last year said that there is no climate crisis. donald trump has, of course, signalled he wants to ramp up fossilfuel production. he has talked about, "drill, baby, drill", much to the alarm of climate and environmental groups given fossil fuels' role as the main driver in climate change. donald trump, of course, doesn't actually take office until january. but whether it is foreign policy or domestic policy, you are already feeling that shift in power. jessica parker in florida for us. since i have been on air at nine o'clock local time...

tickets for next year's glastonbury festival sold out in less than a0 minutes this morning after they went on sale at 9:00am. this year, organisers trialled a new method for managing website traffic by allocating fans a random queue number. previously they had to refresh a ticket holding page. 200,000 people went last year. up up until this weekend it had been a very mild november but all that is changing now. through the week ahead it will be feeling much, much colder. we have the risk of some snow and icy conditions and the frost overnight will be turning more widespread. temperatures this afternoon not quite as high as they were yesterday. still double figures making perhaps in the far south but it is much colder in scotland. through this evening and overnight we will find more snow falling over the hills in the snow falling over th