the uk health security agency's expecting the number of people with a parasite that causes diarrhoea to rise, following the contamination of drinking water in the south—west of england. so far, 46 cases have been confirmed, but officials say hundreds of people have reported symptoms of cryptosporidiosis. the man charged with trying to murder slovakia's prime minister, robert fico, is appearing in court for a hearing to decide whether to hold him in pre—trial detention. the country's deputy prime minister says mr fico had stabilised but still remained in a serious condition. more now on our top story, the russia—ukraine war. after russian troops crossed the border into north eastern ukraine last week, president putin has said there are no plans to capture the country's second city kharkiv, at least for now. the russian leader said his forces were advancing in order to protect the russian border region.

this is how the battlefield currently looks, according to uk military intelligence, the red areas are russian—occupied, with the arrows showing likely points of russian attack. the recent focus of attention is here, in the north east, near kharkiv, where fierce fighting has been taking place, the yellow represents new gains claimed by russia. our defence correspondent, jonathan beale, sent this special report from the front line. near the village of lyptsi, the russians are closing in. the fire from a recent rocket attack near a ukrainian position. we are told to immediately head to a bunker. taking shelter, recently arrived ukrainian reinforcements. a week ago, they were fighting elsewhere on the front. andrei tells me the situation

is dynamic and tense. from a drone feed, they are nervously watching and waiting for another attack. he says it's time to leave. they've just spotted enemy forces advancing. this is where they are directing artillery fire. they are telling us to get out. they've said this area is under threat, and we're going to go. at a field hospital further from the front, medics are treating victor. he has lost his fingers in a mortar explosion. he says he and his men were fending off wave after wave of russian attacks. they were outnumbered and also outgunned. translation: they have everything, whatever they want, and we have - nothing to fight with,

but we do what we can. ukraine's been starved of ammunition, but president zelensky says the shortage is now being addressed. at an artillery line outside the town of vovchansk, they've just received another batch of shells, for their old soviet—era gun. ukraine is just about holding the front here in the kharkiv region, while the russians have launched this fresh assault, but only by pulling units like this from elsewhere on the front, in places where the russians have been advancing. these guys have just been given a new target. but they are frustrated, too, that the russians were so easily able to cross the border. translation: we could have built some sort of fortifications and lost | less human lives, fewer villages.

now, we will have to fight for it again. we will need to use more resources. we could have used logs and concrete. now we will have to use shells and people to take this land back. kharkiv was fortified, but these defences were built well away from the border, beyond the range of russian artillery. too far to make a difference. explosions. further east, where the russians are also gaining ground, ukraine is building more defences — a recognition it may have to pull back here too. but digging so close to russian lines is dangerous and difficult, as we're about to find out. johnny, johnny! johnny! get down! we are told to take cover. quick, quick, quick. as a russian armed drone hovers right above us, scanning for potential targets.

drone whirs. there is palpable relief when it passes. this is a war in which it is getting harder to hide, where the enemy's watching your every move. yeah, let's go. jonathan beale, bbc news, kharkiv. there is more on the warring ukraine on our bbc website. next, more than 100,000 unpaid carers are being forced to repay an average of £1,800 or almost $2,300 each, money that many of them say they don't have. radio 4's moneybox reporter, dan whitworth has more. unpaid carers do an incrediblejob caring for a loved one, often day—in day—out, week—in week—out, with few if any breaks, but many tens of thousands of them

have unwittingly or accidentally received overpayments of carer�*s allowance and now they have been asked to pay it back. people like karina moon, whose daughter, amber, requires round the clock care. she told breakfast three weeks ago that she is having to pay back £11,000 after unknowingly earning slightly over the claim limit at her part—time supermarketjob. at the moment i pay £60 a month and i have been repaying that for the last four years to repay my overpayment which was the £11,000. and i will be paying that until i am 73. so i have another 11 years of paying the £60 per month, which takes money out of our income. it is money that would help me run the car, help pay bills, put food on the table, all of those things. 0r people like gina who has also been landed with a bill. i was presented with a bill and that obviously i had been overpaid.

and it was a sum of £7,600. receiving that bill was a huge blow because it is a big debt by anyone's standards. even though i was only working part—time and for me it was huge. these latest figures show £251 million is currently owed by more than 134,000 carers, which works out at an average debt of nearly £1900 each. liberal democrat leader, sir ed davey, who is a carer for his teenage son, has previously called for these debts to be cancelled. it is just unbelievable that the government should be clawing back this money and blaming the carers when it is the government's own incompetence and the government's flawed system. there is something seriously wrong here. people work hard, they pay their taxes, they look after their loved ones — the government should be incentivising work,

helping these carers, and it is doing the reverse. if unpaid carers care for someone for more than 35 hours per week, they are entitled to carer's allowance worth £81.90 a week but they are not allowed to earn more than £151 per week take—home pay. if they do, even byjust a few pence, they lose the entire allowance, but because they are not realise or are not informed for months or even years, some carers keep receiving overpayments and unwittingly racking up debt. it is really tough. they are shocked and horrified when they get a notice that they have been overpaid and it is devastating for their mental health and then feels really tough paying that back sometimes as well. the department for work and pensions says the total owed by carers includes historical debts, compares to a forecast budget of £4.2 billion on carer's allowance this year alone,

and that it is committed to fairness in the welfare system. dan whitworth, bbc news. with more on this, i am joined by our business correspondent vishala sri—pathma from the newsroom. how do people get into this situation where they're having pay back this allowance? as was mentioned in the report, there are quite strict eligibility rules. for example, you need to be caring for someone for more than 35 hours a week and you cannot be earning more than £151 post tax. in a situation that somebody does overtime for example and gets a modest pay rise, if that earning goes on the £151 mark, they are then no longer qualified for this allowance. and the trouble is that the people that have spoken to the b -- bbc the people that have spoken to the b —— bbc said when they cross this

threshold, they were not notified until years later and by that time, they had racked up thousands and thousands of pounds and find themselves in a situation where they are paying a lump—sum which is really quite hefty. find are paying a lump-sum which is really quite hefty.— really quite hefty. and some of these carers — really quite hefty. and some of these carers have _ really quite hefty. and some of these carers have talked - really quite hefty. and some of these carers have talked about| these carers have talked about missing some of the correspondence, reminding them that their situation is changing. has there been any attempt to address that issue? the dwp sa attempt to address that issue? tue: dwp say they attempt to address that issue? tte: dwp say they are working on this instant alert system where carers will be notified straightaway if they are going over that threshold —— threshold and therefore no longer qualified to prevent them from being in the sort of circumstances we are hearing about. it has been an issue. time, dating back a good five years and former ministers have said i've actually these overpayment should be paused and we had from ed davey of the liberal democrats echoing those sentiments. the dwp are keen to point out that they are recovering

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from infected blood and infected blood products given by the nhs. 0verall 30,000 victims have been identified and these fall into two main categories, the people with rare genetic blood clotting disorders and people who needed blood transfusions after surgery for example. let's start with this first group, the haemophiliacs. people with blood clotting disorders need a special protein called factor viii or factor ix injected which helps their blood clot but by the 19705 the uk was really struggling to meet demand for these blood products and so they started to import from america. but because america pays for blood plasma rather than it being donated forfree, it came from a lot of high risk individuals including prisoners, drug addicts and those most in need for money. with these donations came some deadly viral infections such as hepatitis c and hiv. in the late 70s us drug companies were aware that their product was infected

with viruses including hepatitis but did not take steps to stop the transmission. instead what they did was they mixed together ever larger batch numbers of donations, sometimes up to 50,000 plasma donations mixed together in one batch and it tookjust one infected donor to infect the entire batch. by 1983, the pharmaceutical companies were aware there was a link between haemophiliacs and hiv but instead of raising the alarm, they kept it quiet. some medics and whistle—blowers did try to raise the alarm around the world but health officials did not listen. we now know 1250 people were infected with hiv and hepatitis c that had blood clotting disorders in this country. 320 of them were children. and almost all have now died. let's look at the second group of people, those with blood transfusions. they were given blood

transfusions in surgery or after childbirth or an accident, it was infected with hiv. it was known blood transfusions could infect people with hepatitis as early as the 19705 but those expo5ed were not tested, even when a test became available. minimal effort was made to identify those affected. even now we still have people coming forward in this country that have just been diagnosed decades after their infection, but often it is too late. hepatitis attacks the liver, leading to cirrho5is and eventually cancer, so a late diagnosis often comes with a dire progno5i5. the inquiry said through blood transfusion treatment, up to 27,000 people were infected with hepatitis c and between 80 and 100 got hiv. during the inquiry we heard from children who grow up a5 orphan5, mothers who buried their children and husbands who unknowingly passed infections onto their wives. victim5 said they were ignored by doctors and treated as dirty

or second—class citizens by the nhs. victims and their families have waited 40 years forju5tice. the focus now is on compensation. and you can follow monday's proceedings live on bbc news and iplayer. alcohol abuse in england costs 5ervice5 £27 billion a year. that's according to research from the institute of alcohol studies, which found that the harms of drinking put an extra strain on the nhs, social services, the criminalju5tice system, and labour market. the department of health and social care said its funding specialist care teams in hospitals in england. let's get some of the day's other news now three spanish tourists and an afghan citizen have been killed in a gun attack in the city of bamiyan in central afghanistan.

several other people, including foreign citizens, were wounded when two gunmen opened fire on a vehicle in the city's central market. the presidents of mexico and guatemala have announced that they will boost security at four of their main border crossings. the measures are part of a wider programme to address mass migration. both leaders have been under huge pressure from washington to stop illegal migrants from central and south america crossing in to the united states. cubans are enduring some of their bleakest economic times since the cold war amid worsening inflation, a scarcity of basic goods and the decades—long us economic embargo. in an unexpected move, the country's economy minister, alejandro gil fernandez, was arrested in march for corruption. but many think it will take more than one ministerial head to roll to pull cuba from its economic woes. 0ur correspondent, will grant, travelled to the heartland of one of cuba's most quintessential

industries, sugar, to see how tough the situation has become. sugar is in cuba's dna. in fact, there's a saying on the island, "without sugar, there's no country." but this year's sugar cane harvest will be one of the poorest on record. sugar is supposed to be the mainstay of the cuban economy, as emblematic to the island as its tobacco, but a series of factors — principally the lack of available fuel and years of underinvestment — have made cuban sugar an industry in near terminal decline. "there's not enough trucks. "and the fuel shortages mean sometimes we can't work "for days," says miguel guzman. it's a situation made worse by the decades—long us sanctions on the island. "still, cuba needs the sugar," he adds. it certainly does, in part for its famous rum. but the problems here aren'tjust the fault of the us embargo. they're also from mismanagement of cuba's centralised economy.

this 19th—century sugar mill in cienfuegos runs on rusting, obsolete technology, and it's one ofjust two dozen working mills on the island. 0nce unthinkable, cuba now imports sugar to meet domestic demand, a far cry from the glory days when cuban sugar was exported to the world. one man who can get his hands on enough sugar is martin nizarane. part of a new breed of cuban entrepreneur, his business produces yoghurt and ice cream. the production of foodstuffs in private hands is a big change in cuba, yet it's been hailed by the cuban president as a model for the future. this is capitalism, pure and simple, no matter how much the businessmen behind it display their revolutionary credentials. translation: the government has never proposed anything . that benefits me economically. it treats me like just another private entrepreneur — no special privileges whatsoever.

amid spiralling inflation, cuba's government recently imposed a fivefold increase on subsidised fuel at the petrol pumps. 0rdinary cubans say they're suffering more than at any other time since the cold war, and the us election brings no hope of respite from washington, no matter who wins. but cuba's problems extend beyond the race for the white house. with its sugar plants barely operational, the islands in danger of losing part of its soul, its once iconic trade now a ghost industry, a mere shadow of its former self. will grant, bbc news, cienfuegos, cuba. the british museum has recovered another 268 stolen artefacts, some of which had been sold on ebay forjust a few dollars. most were gems and jewellery from greek and roman times. they were part of a trove of items revealed last year to have gone missing from the world—renowned museum, causing a global scandal. a senior curator suspected of involvement was sacked but he denies any wrongdoing.

about 1,500 items in total disappeared from museum store—rooms, nearly half of those have now been found across europe and north america. bridgerton has been a fan favourite on netflix for four years and now it has returned for a third outing. set in the early 18005, the series showcases the regency era with its decadent gowns and grand ball rooms and grimsthorpe castle in lincolnshire has served as the backdrop to some of this year's scenes. let's take a look at how the filming went. we've been open since about 1978, so we've been open a long time. but you don't really see us, you know, that much on the internet or anything like that.

so, yeah, seeing usjust randomly scrolling through your phone, you're like, oh, there's grimsthorpe castle in a little advert by netflix. yeah, it was really cool. you look especially beautiful tonight, miss featherington. this is the vanbrugh hall and this is where they filmed their ballroom scene. and it was amazing. so, they they hung these beautiful blue curtains and they made sure they matched the colours, blue and gold, to the grimsthorpe colours. so, we're blue and gold. so this floor you can see is stone and marble. and because they wanted to bring in 200 dancers, film crews, as you can imagine, that's heavy trolleys, lots of cameras, lots of lights, so they built a fake floor. it was the first night, they filmed coming out of a carriage and they came in the doors and you could just see theirfaces change. they sort of were acting, came in and then theyjust stopped,

looked around and were like, "wow!" and they said it was amazing and that it was one of the most beautiful properties they've actually filmed in, so that was nice to hear. i'm really hoping it's going to bring more visitors to grimsthorpe, more visitors to lincolnshire and a slightly different demographic as well, maybe a younger audience that don't normally visit stately homes. since the 19705, woolsack racing has been a crowd pleaser in the gloucestershire town of tetbury in western england, but the event suffered a four year hiatus during the pandemic. well, this month it's coming back, but before contestants can race 60 pounds of wool down a steep hill, another race is on: to replace the old sacks, which have been eaten by mice during their time in storage, as our reporter steve knibbs has been finding out. it's a race of strength, fitness and a firm foot as teams run up and down the one in four gradient of gumstool hill with 60lb sacks

of wool on their shoulders. the race harks back to a 17th—century tradition when men apparently ran from pub to pub carrying woolsacks to try and impress local women. but it was last held here in 2019, before the pandemic hit. danny and kirsten are the new custodians of the woolsack races archive. this was all in a barn in... beverston. there's a lot in their garage in tetbury. the old medals and shields have seen better days... ladies team championship winners. ..as have the all—important woolsacks. as you can see, they've split. i mean, they were in storage for nearly five years. but now danny and kirsten, and a new committee, are bringing the race back on bank holiday monday. on facebook and kind of, you know, down the pub and everything, people were saying, you know, "covid is over now. why haven't we got woolsack back?" because a lot of the other events had been coming back. so we kind of thought, "hmm,

why don't we get some people together and see if we can get it going again?" and itjust so happens that kirsten is a bit of an expert on the woolsack races. had the fastest ladies' time. one minute, six seconds, it was. i've got a guinness world record with the certificates and everything. it's since been superseded because they shortened the course. but what about those sorry—looking sacks? well, there's only one place to get them sorted. the wool shop in tetbury run by pat. good morning. how are you? i i'm fine, thank you. i've come about the wool sacks. that's not a good condition. what are you going to do with that? i was going to repair it, i but i don't think i am now. so i've made some new ones. i've always enjoyed woolsack, and, yes, part of the community. - ithought, "yes, i'll do my bit to help."| didn't realise it was going to be such a bad job, but hey, - that goes with it, doesn't it? so pat's got her work cut out to get ready for the big day, but it's full steam ahead.

we're really proud to be able to get it go. yeah, it's quite scary, quite daunting. but hopefully we'll do itjustice. the cheese rolling, the shin—kicking came back, and now the woolsack races have returned. gloucestershire is now definitely back to normal, with its wonderfully quirky ways. steve knibbs, bbc news. rare video has captured the moment a deep—sea squid went into attack mode on a camera. take a look at this. a deep—sea squid flashes a pair of brilliant "headlights" intended to dazzle the prey as it goes in for the kill. scientists recorded the squid on a research trip in the pacific ocean. but this isn't the only glimpse they caught. this is the view from the camera that had the close encounter with the squid. the bait was a piece of mackerel. now it's time for a look at the weather.

hello, a fine weekend for many. hard to believe storms have been raging across western germany and eastern france, that's this cloud over the last 2a hours, but some of that cloud has floated our way, producing cloudy now it's time for a look at the weather. 2a hours, but some of that cloud has floated our way, producing cloudy skies across southern counties of england and wales today, and the weather front with it has been producing some patchy, light rain and drizzle. as it works its way west, with temperatures rising, we could see some showers and thunderstorms. for the vast majority notjust today but this weekend will be dry and warm once the sun is out. we have seen a lot of mist and fog to start the day. but whilst it will linger around some hills and coasts, particularly in scotland and eastern england, many will be seeing the sunshine come through. just that small chance of a few thunderstorms later. cooler day than yesterday across the north of scotland with more cloud, but the warmest conditions in south—west scotland, 2a degrees and plenty of sunshine for most to end with. any showers will gradually fade into tonight. tonight, more mist and sea fog forming down the north sea coasts, becoming quite extensive.

eastern scotland, north—east england, east anglia, the south—east and maybe into home counties as well. temperatures fairly similar to what we saw last night. the mist and fog inland will gradually clear through the morning. by mid—to—late morning, gone for most, but will still be coming and going along the coast in the east and north of scotland. more cloudy in the north of scotland, the chance of a shower, england and wales, much more sunshine around especially in the south compared with today. today we will see the highest temperatures, 2a degrees possible, mid—teens across northern and eastern scotland, a bit cooler along some where the fog lingers. it is the fog which comes back on monday morning, leading to a sluggish commute in some parts of the country. most of it will shift again by mid—morning. more of a breeze on monday for east anglia and the south—east but it should be a fine day for most. temperatures down a little bit for most but in the west of northern ireland, 2a degrees, with a few heavy showers

here to end the day. next weekend, dry to begin with, but into the middle part of the week, two areas of low pressure combining, one of them moving out from the near continent to produce heavy rain on wednesday and thursday for england and wales, but a fair amount of sunshine also, and some warmth in that sunshine. take care.

live from london — this is bbc news. president zelensky says ukraine only has about a quarter of the amount of air defences it needs to fight off russian attacks. as the man accused of trying to assassinate slovakia's prime minister appears in court, officials says robert fico is in a serious

but stable condition. health officials in the southwest of england say they expect an increase in sickness, after a parasite enters the water supply. and shocking footage emerges of an assault by the rap star sean diddy combs on his then—girlfriend cassie ventura. hello. ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky says his country only has about a quarter of the amount of air defences it needs to fight off russian attacks. he said ukraine needed up to 130 of the western f—16 fighter jets. dozens are due to arrive sometime this yearfrom european donor countries, and ukrainian pilots are currently being trained. let's speak to our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse in kyiv.