i'm one of the co—hosts of the bbc podcast ukrainecast, and with my colleague vitaly shevchenko, we'vet recorded a conversation with the prominent british writer and broadcaster stephen fry. he's also a campaigner for mental health awareness, and he's been to ukraine to co—host a conference on this very issue, along with the first lady of ukraine, olena zelenska. so vitaly and i have been speaking with stephen fry about the mental scars of conflict. ukrainecast from bbc news. it's a great pleasure to be in your presence, stephen. people in ukraine know who you are, they follow you, and they appreciate what you do. no, i'm thrilled to be here. it was extraordinary to visit ukraine almost a year ago, and i still think about it almost every day and follow what's going on in the news with puzzlement, hope, sometimes despair, and often bafflement. wars are such complex machines, beasts, whatever we want to call them, aren't they? and it's very hard to understand them. and, you know, you're a journalist, you both have every right to visit and to be embedded amongst military and to, you know,

i'm one of the co—hosts of the bbc podcast ukrainecast, and with my colleague vitaly shevchenko, we'vecorded a conversation with the prominent british writer and broadcaster stephen fry. he's also a campaigner for mental health awareness, and he's been to ukraine to co—host a conference on this very issue, along with the first lady of ukraine, olena zelenska. so vitaly and i have been speaking with stephen fry about the mental scars of conflict. for ukraine, and that is how to deal with mental health. yeah, yeah. and that's why i went there. olena zelenska, the first lady, she has, for a few years now, had these special conferences in which she invites other first ladies and, as they call them, first ladies and gentlemen. so the first ladies and gentlemen gather, and discuss things, and use what i suppose you might call the soft power of a presidential or prime ministerial spouse. their connections and their ability to get things done and be heard. and she invited me to co—moderate, if that's the right word, a conference specifically on mental health. and i leapt at the chance. you kno

the bbc's vitaly shevchenko. - well meanwhile, president putin has been holding talks with his mongoliantar. it's mr putin's first visit to a country that recognises the international criminal court since it issued an arrest warrant for him last year. kyiv condemned mongolia's decision not to arrest the russian leader, accusing it of sharing responsibility for war crimes. russia has been looking to build a gas pipeline through mongolia to china to increase its fossil fuel exports and compensate for losses of european markets. let's speak to the defence analyst at the university of bath, patrick bury. patrick bury, just tell me in terms of the significance of this and why it poltava has been targeted, what is your assessment from the information we have at the moment? as assessment from the information we have at the moment?- we have at the moment? as your last correspondence _ we have at the moment? as your last correspondence said, - we have at the moment? as your last correspondence said, we - last correspondence said, we don't have all the details yet. what i would say is that this ki

i'm one of the co—hosts of the bbc podcast ukrainecast, and with my colleague vitaly shevchenko, we'veminent british writer and broadcaster stephen fry. he's also a campaigner for mental health awareness, and he's been to ukraine to co—host a conference on this very issue, along with the first lady of ukraine, 0lena zelenska. so vitaly and i have been speaking with stephen fry about the mental scars of conflict. ukrainecast from bbc news. it's a great pleasure to be in your presence, stephen. people in ukraine know who you are, they follow you, and they appreciate what you do. no, i'm thrilled to be here. it was extraordinary to visit ukraine almost a year ago, and i still think about it almost every day and follow what's going on in the news with puzzlement, hope, sometimes despair, and often bafflement. wars are such complex machines, beasts, whatever we want to call them, aren't they? and it's very hard to understand them. and, you know, you're a journalist, you both have every right to visit and to be embedded amongst military and to, you know, describe the theatre and the home fro

and that was stephen fry in conversation with me, lyse doucet, and vitaly shevchenko on the bbc podcastunds. ukrainecast from bbc news. hello. according to meteorologists, saturday, 31st of august was the last day of summer. how did we get on? well, across most of the country, we had these lovely sunny skies and it felt quite nice in the sunshine, given light winds. however, across southern areas of england and to a degree the far south of wales, we had a lot of cloud. and talking about cloud, tatest satellite picture shows and talking about cloud, latest satellite picture shows a complex of thunderstorms forming across west france. low pressure is forming here, and that's ultimately going to drag in some increasingly humid air from belgium, netherlands, luxembourg, move it into the uk and that will set the scene for some thundery downpours, i think later on sunday and into sunday night. for the time being, though, it's relatively quiet out and about. you could see an odd spit of rain falling from the cloud as it advances across northern areas of england. it will turn a bit cloudy acros

i'm one of the co—hosts of the bbc podcast ukrainecast, and with my colleague vitaly shevchenko, we'vend he's been to ukraine to co—host a conference on this very issue, along with the first lady of ukraine, olena zelenska. so vitaly and i have been speaking with stephen fry about the mental scars of conflict. ukrainecast from bbc news.

i'm one of the co—hosts of the bbc podcast ukrainecast, and with my colleague vitaly shevchenko, we'veeness, and he's been to ukraine to co—host a conference on this very issue, along with the first lady of ukraine, olena zelenska. so vitaly and i have been speaking with stephen fry about the mental scars of conflict. ukrainecast from bbc news. it's a great pleasure to be in your presence, stephen. people in ukraine know who you are, they follow you, and they appreciate what you do.

vitaly shevchenko is russia editor at bbc monitoring and joins us now.the ukrainian president, volodymyrzelensky, has i know that the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky, has spoken about this. what do we now? he volodymyr zelensky, has spoken about this. what do we now?— this. what do we now? he said of the strike was carried _ this. what do we now? he said of the strike was carried out _ this. what do we now? he said of the strike was carried out using _ this. what do we now? he said of the strike was carried out using two - strike was carried out using two ballistic missiles and it hit with the ukrainian president called a telecommunications institute. this seems to be a facility used by the ukrainian military where they train to use communications on the battlefield. there are reports circulating online that it was hit while there were numerous cadets and members of the military on site. the ukrainian president also said that a neighbouring hospital was also damaged, and at least one building was partially destroyed. the defence ministry in kyiv

this is during vitaly kapranov, co-host of the shevchenko channel, told about the book festival.said that he and his brother dmytro came to such a presentation of information after eight years of experience. the main hook that we cling to is the search for an answer to the question of the ukrainian show. have been doing on this land for a thousand years, because we all know perfectly well that there are no ukrainians, there never were, and there the scythians are not related to us, the sarmatians also ran, anti the second, then the lithuanians, that means. germans, then muscovites, then turks, then it is still unclear who, in the 91st year once, and we are independent, and we are who. i have all the news for now, see you at 12 o'clock. great. vasyl zima's broadcast, my name is vasyl zima, it's a big broadcast on the espresso tv channel, two hours of air time, two hours of your time, i'm colleagues, we'll talk about the most important thing, two hours to learn about the war, about the military, front, component, serhii zgurets, what is the world like, yuriy fizar is already with m