and at its heart is yablunska street. on this street a glassware factory helped create a thriving community in soviet days. new flats were being built for young couples creating theirfuture in bucha. for decades, bucha had known peace. archive: nato says it's the biggest deployment of russian troops in belarus since the cold war... even when tensions started mounting on ukraine's borders, for yulia and andriy, invasion seemed far away. suddenly, the russians had landed, trying to take the capital, kyiv. elite airborne forces staged a surprise attack, just five kilometres from yablunska street. across bucha, residents sought shelter underground. they filmed what was happening, as they would throughout the unfolding crisis. natalia and her son fled west to safety, joining hundreds of thousands of ukrainians in the face of the russian advance. her husband, andriy, was to follow. across ukraine, peoplejoined the territorial defence, a reserve military unit defending neighbourhoods. natalia's husband joined a defence unit form

yablunska yablu nska i44 yablu nska 144 is yablunska 144 is now a war crime scene.gators are gathering evidence for a potential prosecution, answering a call forjustice. but who with the people responsible? this military credit card down by cleaners and other recovered documents place elite airborne forces at yablunska i44 place elite airborne forces at yablunska 144 at this time. at the man who sent them there was the man who sent them there was the commander—in—chief, at two. and he has often done for, the president denies any crimes. would you like some water? the event at yablunska i44 transformed life into death. happy homes into places of grief. but bucha is still home. where the reminders of the lost are everywhere. what were the last flowers he gave you, can you remember? you've probably heard already that a national emergency has been declared on account of this unprecedented heatwave. the english temperature record, which is also that of the uk, is going to get obliterated in the next few days, as indeed will the record for wales. in scotland, probably get

fergal keane, bbc news, yablunska street.e country's largest city, sydney, as river levels continue to rise following days of torrential rain. parts of the city have received about eight months of rain in just four days. roads have been cut off, many buildings are submerged, and thousands have been left without power. 0ur correspondent shaimaa khalil has this report. in some parts of windsor, roads have turned into small rivers. a once—in—a—century weather event has now happened twice just this year. melissa and herfamily have been without power for nearly 24 hours. now they've been told to evacuate. this time, because the water is over the road now, yeah, i'm a little bit worried, but, yeah. and soon as the power cut off yesterday as well, that was, yeah, had to go because we had no power. some residents in this neighborhood have been rescued by the emergency services and others have evacuated. some are waiting in their homes, praying that they don't get stuck and that the water doesn't rise even further. the thing you keep

fergal keane, bbc news, yablunska street.sed of trafficking migrants to britain have been arrested in a series of raids across five european countries. the arrests were the result of a major operation coordinated between police forces in the uk, france, belgium, the netherlands and germany. bans on abortion in two more us states have come into effect, after recent legal moves to block them were overruled. florida's ban on abortions past fifteen weeks of pregnancy and a near—total ban in mississippi will now go ahead, following the supreme court's overturning of a landmark ruling on the issue. wednesday sees the beginning of the festival of san fermin in the spanish city of pamplona. you may know it as the running of the bulls. ahead of the event, a protest took place, with demonstrators calling for the festival, and bullfighting in general, to be brought to an end. the bbc�*s tim allman reports. as demonstrations go, it was not exactly subtle. dozens of people are dressed up as dinosaurs — their message is clear, as, well, a

anatoly and eight others were by now hiding here, at 31 yablunska street.anslation: on the 4th, at 10am, he sent me - a message saying, "we're still sitting tight." that was his last message. this is what happened next. cctv recorded the moments just after the men were captured. this image, obtained by the bbc, shows them being led towards the russian base at 144 yablunska street. a neighbourfilmed the next moments through his window. the men can be seen being lined up in front of a wall. lucy moskalenko was a witness and was disturbed by the words of a russian officer. he told us, "don't look at those people "lying on the ground. "they are not humans. "they are absolute dirt. "dirt. "they are not human. "they are beasts." it is through the extraordinary testimony of one man that we know what happened next. ivan skyba, a father of four, was never meant to survive his ordeal. translation: the conversation went like this - _ "what should we do with him?" the second russian says, "finish him off, butjust "take them away so that they won't be lying here." the m

in ukrainian, it means the place of the apple trees — yablunska.et, a nondescript office building, but a crime that defined a new age of atrocity in europe. this is the story of families shattered by a massacre. and of a man, meant to be dead, but who lived to bear witness. distant explosion it begins in the opening days of the war when men on yablunska streetjoined the territorial defence. they were fathers, sons, brothers, neighbours. anatolyjoined up to protect his home and family. translation: ijust started getting warm clothes for him. _ at that time, i felt there was nothing i could say to stop him. but by march 4th, the russians were combing bucha, searching for men of the territorial defence. anatoly and eight others were by now hiding here, at 31 yablunska street. by the following morning, the russians had encircled the hiding place. translation: on the 4th, at 10am, he sent me a message saying, i "we're still sitting tight." that was his last message. this is what happened next. cctv recorded the moments just after the men were captured.

fergal keane, bbc news, yablunska street. you're watching bbc news. catch up on the day's news. that's. .. certainly that's... certainly we're missing what went into the shooting, what his plan was for some investigators did develop some information that it appears about when he drove to madison, he was driving around. he did see celebration that was going on in medicine and he contemplated seriously using the firearm in his vehicle to do another shooting. officials in nigeria say more than 300 inmates are still unaccounted for, including dozens of members of the boko haram militant group, following a raid on a prison in the capital abuja. several people were killed in the attack, which is suspected to have been carried out by boko haram. it is the latest on a series of raids on nigerian prisons by militants. british airways will cancel more than thousand -- 10,000 ——10,000 plates by the end of october. carriers around the world 0ctober. carriers around the world are struggling to keep up with demand for travel amid staff shortages. ba say the cancell

fergal keane, bbc news, yablunska street.mething fishy or normal nuclear procedure? we look at plans to empty water from the fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean. central london has been rocked by a series of terrorist attacks. police say there have been many casualties, and there is growing speculation that al-qaeda was responsible. germany will be the hosts of the 2006 football world cup. they've pipped the favourites, south africa, by a single vote. in south africa, the possibility of losing hadn't even been contemplated. celebration parties were cancelled. a man entered the palace i through a downstairs window and made his way to - the queen's private bedroom. then, he asked her for a cigarette. - and, on the pretext - of arranging for some to be brought, summoned a footman. on duty, who took the man away. one child... ..one teacher... ..one book... ..and one pen can change the world. education is the only solution. applause this is bbc world news, the latest headlines: borisjohnson refuses to resign, despite his

fergal keane, bbc news, yablunska street.hort haul flights from now to the end of october. the announcement comes amid growing travel chaos at airports, as the aviation industry struggles to cope with staff shortages. let's join our travel correspondent katy austin. yes, this looks set to disrupt hundreds of thousands of passengers' plans. the affected flights are to or from plans. the affected flights are to orfrom heathrow, gatwick and london city airport in august, september and october, and bring the total number of flights that british airways has now cut from its april to october scheduled to nearly 30,000. many aviation businesses are struggling with staff shortages, just as demand for travel rebounds after covid rules were eased. we have seen disruption at airports and lots of airlines have already cancelled flights. this latest wave of advanced cancellations by british airways comes after the uk government gave airlines a short window to hand back flight slots without the usual penalty. the point of that was to try a

father of two children, the russians shot him and something like seven other men on march 4 in bucha, yablunska street 144 ambushes, the russians tried to reach kyiv, but they were stopped by ukrainian artillery strikes, when the russians tried to break through to kyiv, they saw resistance here, which they simply did not expect. so they combed the entire district, went from house to house to find everyone whom they suspected of helping the ukrainians, the russians arrested denis rudenko can be seen here in a blue sweater along with all the other men near the russian base. they were tortured and then shot. denis's mother did not see him again until a month later his body was shown in the morgue at number 316 it was tennis first. my husband and i watched it, but i didn't understand what kind of holes the thigh was shot. if i'm not mistaken, the stomach and ok on yablonskyi 144, there are still many traces of russians, obscene graphics on the walls, a soldier's military bank card, we found old fairy tales in the trash all this is now the city of crime online, now the person who is conducting the i

they're also people who've just gone through a brutal ambush, one street away from yablunska street.ooking for a motive in war crimes, they're people with a motive. ivan skyba falls into their hands, he and eight other men. and what happened? what about the interrogation? they get him to bend towards the wall and they load bricks on his back until he collapses. and then they put a bucket on his head and they start battering him through the bucket. it's a well known torture technique, very disorienting. he's at the end of it, he's completely shattered and he hears a shot and it's the man beside him being shot. they're taken back outside and a woman who happens to be there, one of these chilling phrases that she hears, she's a local resident and she hears the russian commander say to the other residents who are gathered, "don't look at these people, they're dirt. "they're beasts. "they�* re not human. " before you kill, you dehumanize. and that's precisely what's happening at this moment. he said, "we knew we were being led to execution, so we said "goodbye to each other." and that's w

it started in the first days of the war, when the men on yablunska street joined the territorial defense. they were parents, sons, brothers, neighbors. anatoliy prykhodko joined them in order to protect his home and family. i just started to dress him warmly. at that time, i realized that i will not stop him, he made a decision and said so confidently that i am doing this for you, for my daughters . at the beginning of march, the russians began combing bucha . in search of members of the territorial defense here on yablonskaya, 31 hid in a tolia and another 8 men, the next morning, the russians surrounded the hideout, on march 4 at 10:00 a.m., he sent me a message until here, this was the last message after that, not all the messages that were written to him were unanswered, he also did not answer the calls. this is what happened next, the video surveillance camera recorded the moment after the capture of the men on this video obtained by the bbc , it can be seen that they are being taken to jablunska 144, where the russians were quartered. i witnessed this and heard the words of a russi