jean mackenzie has his report. ——jean —— jean mackenzie. has this report.orth—eastern border. russia has been able to bombard the city of vovchans'k with impunity, launching attacks from russian soil then seizing ground. 0vernight, it struck an apartment block in the region's capital, kharkiv, 20 miles from the border. at least six people were killed. elena's husband and mother were inside and are still missing. president zelensky has pleaded to be allowed to properly defend his country by using nato weapons to strike russia. washington has finally agreed, but with strict limits. ukraine can only target russian positions along the kharkiv border. this is some step forward to that goal which we discussed before, to make the possibility to defend our people who live in the villages through the borderline. but russia is pushing on multiple fronts. earlier, the united states hinted that having changed his mind once, president biden could do it again. we will continue to do what we have been doing, which is, as necessary, adapt and adjust. since the start of the

jean mackenzie, bbc news, kyiv.at bowel cancer, as part of a landmark trial. thousands of nhs patients across england are expected to receive the bespoke treatments, which are designed to help the immune system identify and destroy remaining cancer cells left behind after other treatments. fergus walsh has the story. elliot was diagnosed with bowel cancer last year and has already had surgery and chemotherapy. but tests show he still has fragments of tumour dna in his blood, putting him at increased risk of his cancer coming back. hello, it's here. so he's come to birmingham's queen elizabeth hospital to receive a cancer vaccine. i feel excited, you know? and if its successful, then it's a medical breakthrough. the time of reckoning! and this is the key moment when elliot receives his vaccine, tailor—made in germany by pharma company biontech to fight his cancer. he'll get up to 15 doses during the trial. so how does it work? elliot's personalised vaccine uses the same mrna technology as found in current covid jabs.

jean mackenzie, has the latest from kyiv.ng its north—eastern border. russia has been able to bombard the city of vovchansk with impunity, launching attacks from russian soil then seizing ground. overnight, it struck an apartment block in the region's capital, kharkiv, 20 miles from the border. at least six people were killed. elena's husband and mother were inside and are still missing. president zelensky has pleaded to be allowed to properly defend his country by using nato weapons to strike russia. washington has finally agreed, but with strict limits. ukraine can only target russian positions along the kharkiv border. this is some step forward to that goal which we discussed before, to make the possibility to defend our people who live in the villages through the borderline. but russia is pushing on multiple fronts. earlier, the united states hinted that having changed his mind once, president biden could do it again. we will continue to do what we have been doing, which is, as necessary, adapt and adjust. since the start

russia, despite its many threats, has yet to make its next move. jean mackenzie, bbc news, kyiv. boy." the bodies of tom parry, 49, and his 12—year—old son richie, were recovered on wednesday evening. police scotland said their deaths were being treated as the result of a fall. several hundred households in the village of bramley in surrey have been told not to drink their tap water. thames water says there's been a possible deterioration in the quality "in some areas". there have been concerns for several months about a fuel leak from a nearby petrol station. a man in birmingham has become the first to receive a personalised vaccine to treat bowel cancer as part of a landmark trial. thousands of nhs patients across england are expected to receive the bespoke treatments, which are designed to help the immune system identify and destroy remaining cancer cells left behind after other treatments. fergus walsh has that story. elliot was diagnosed with bowel cancer last year and has already had surgery and chemotherapy. but tests show he still has fragments of tumour dna in his blood,

i'm jean mackenzie and i am the bbc�*s sole correspondent covering the entire korean peninsula, so northa, relations between north and south korea were in this really interesting period of flux. and so things on the peninsula felt a lot more volatile than they had done in quite a number of years. and so when i entered that situation and was seeing tensions escalate, i was thinking, "well, who does this actually affect right here, right now? who's having to deal with this?" and then i learn about this community of south koreans that live inside the demilitarised zone. right. we're getting out. good morning. annyeong haseyo. how are you? morning. this isjean mackenzie with the bbc. the demilitarised zone is this strip of land that separates north and south korea, and it is a buffer zone, really, between the two countries. so what you have essentially is two countries that are technically still at war, even though they're not fighting. please do not make any hand gestures to the north and do not go past the soldiers behind you, to your left and right. despite its name, the demilitarised zon

jean mackenzie reports from the capital, kyiv.g villages in the kharkiv region to rubble and gaining ground. the ukrainians say they have been powerless to stop this advance because russia has been firing many of its bombs and missiles with impunity, safely from across its border. overnight, there was another attack on this apartment building in kharkiv. at least five people were killed. dozens more injured. elena's husband and mother are still missing. as nato's foreign ministers met in prague, more and more of them joined calls to allow ukraine to use their arms to hit russia back, untilfinally, the united states, kyiv�*s biggest arms donor, gave its green light. they are hitting ukraine with missiles, with artillery, based inside russia. of course, ukraine must be able to hit back and to defend themselves. this is part of the right to self—defence. there are serious limits to this self—defence. ukraine must only use the weapons to repel the invasion in kharkiv. it cannot fire into russia at any other point along the vast front