barbara wesel, hannah cleaver, thank you to both of you. now to the war in ukraine.oday, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy made his first trip to the newly liberated city of izium. ukrainian forces recaptured the strategic city as part of a swift counteroffensive that is seen kyiv reclaim thousands of square kilometers of russian controlled territory in the kharkiv projects. yet as russian forces retreat, evidence is emerging of a brutal occupation. reporter: in the city of izium, president zelenskyy shakes the hand of a ukrainian commander. thanks to his troop's part work, the city has now been liberated from russian forces. but there's been so much fighting here that there is not much of it left. >> there are no surprises. it is not a shock for me. the view is very shocking but it is not a shock for me, because we began to see the same pictures from blue-chip -- from the occupied territories. the same, destroyed buildings, killed people. so, what can i say? reporter: ukraine's northeastern counteroffensive has seen the ukrainian army take back a wide swathe o

nicole: and hannah cleaver is still with me.saw a lot of very emotional responses to the queen's passing. how come all these people have such a strong connection with the monarch, who is a person who lives in a sort of ivory tower, far removed from everyday life? >> maybe not only ivory towers but several different palaces and. castles. it is a question that has been fascinating to me for some long. people are genuinely distressed by the death of a woman they could not have possibly ever known and yet they feel that they did. that was part of the art that queen elizabeth practiced all the way through her reign, to kind of give people enough of an opening to make them feel like they knew her, like they had a reason to emotionally engage with her, and actually not show them very much, if anything, of herself. they were then able to almost project onto her anything they wanted. people talked about how funny she is, about how dutiful she was, how she meant so much to them, and if you dig deeper, they often don't really have a reason