, matchmaker who matchmaker who thinks professional matchmaker who thinks we might be. i professional matchmaker who thinks we might be-— professional matchmaker who thinks we might be— we might be. i hope it stops being a thin. thing. i think i am probably the most unromantic relationship science expert in the world. returning to our top story now and ukraine's new commander—in—chief has visited to two key battle zones — and acknowledged that the situation on parts of the front line is extremely difficult. next week it will be two years since russia invaded ukraine — uprooting ten million people from their homes. at the start of the conflict — our special correspondent fergal keane reported from the western city of lviv — as huge numbers of refugees — the largest in europe since world war ii — tried to cram onto trains and escape. fergal has returned to lviv to find out what happened to some of the people he met. they were fleeing europe's biggest refugee crisis since world war ii. people are just crushing all around

me, trying to get onto these trains. a young mother with a baby is screaming because everybody is getting crushed. two years on, what happened to the people fleeing and those helping them? among the volunteers was this doctor. helping some of the 10 million uprooted from their homes. now after helping so many escape, she is still in lviv. and seeing the traumatic impact of war on her family.

natasha is teaching medicine, knowing any of her students could end up on the front line. and now, she is ready to fight. you are a doctor, you save lives, but thought if you wants to kill? from the beginning at the station, natasha was hearing direct testimony of russian cruelty. some of the worst stories were coming from the besieged city of mariupol. are you

from maria carle? we met this family, among them an 86—year—old grandmother maria and her daughter. maria fell several times in a basement shelter. a year later we found the family living in ukraine's peaceful court 18 mountains, but haunted by memories of what they had left behind. —— court 18 mountains.

six months after we filmed this interview, maria died in exile. buried farfrom her interview, maria died in exile. buried far from her husband and mariupol, the city she loved. the war�*s sadness is everywhere now. in lviv recently, the funeral of one of the soldiers killed. as we filmed, a veteran erupted in rage.

screaming. "death to the enemy" he shouts. and then to the dying, the exile seems very far away. fergal keane, bbc news, lviv. north korea has hacked into the personal emails of a member of the south korean presidents team. the hack happened in the run—up to president yoon 5 state visit to britain last november. north korea 5 hacking abilities have become increasingly sophisticated, and this is thought to be the first time it has successfully hacked an official working in the presidents office. our seoul correspondent jean mackenzie told us more. this hack was first reported by a newspaper here in south korea this morning which said it had the information from high—level government source. this source had told them that a member of the president's team at had their e—mails hacked just before president yoon went on the state visit to the uk in november of last year, where he met king charles and queen camilla and met the british prime minister

rishi sunak. this source claimed that not only were the details of mr yoon's itinerary leaked but also e—mails from the president himself. we've spoken to the presidential office about this today and they've confirmed to us that, yes, this hack took place but they would not disclose what information was accessed in the hack. they were very keen to point out to us that this did not mean that their security systems had been breached. they said this was down to one of their employee's careless actions because this employee in question had been using their personal e—mails to conduct work business — so, to plan some of this trip. we know north korea is increasingly using cyber hacking and its methods are becoming more becoming more and more sophisticated. it tends to have a two reasons to hack — the first is to steal money so that it can earn money for the regime, because north korea is under very strict international sanctions which mean it can't earn money in conventional ways, so it still sometimes large sums of money, recently cryptocurrency, and it's thought that some of this

goes towards the state's nuclear weapons programme. the other reason that it hacks is to steal state secrets, so like this hack that we saw today, and the ultimate goal of is that it is thought to be to get access to sensitive weapons technology that it can use to advance its nuclear weapons programme. protesting indian farmers have headed to delhi. the farmers are demanding minimum guaranteed prices for a range of crops and debt relief. they staged a mass protest in 2020 after the indian government propose loosening the rules on prices. the laws were repealed. the

former striking now want to remind the government of its promises. more than 100 families have told the bbc that the nhs is failing to provide enough vital support for severely ill and disabled adults and children living outside hospital. many say they are desperate, amid ongoing battles to get help and a huge variation in the availability of care, depending on where people live. nhs england says funding decisions are made on a case—by—case basis, following government guidelines. our social affairs editor alison holt has been to meet one family who got in touch saying the pressure of around—the—clock care for their son has taken a huge toll. a family exhausted and struggling without enough help in somerset. we don't know how long we can carry on like this, basically. one story that echoes the experiences of so many others who have contacted us. show everyone how clever you are. all caring for severely disabled loved ones, young and old. all describing lengthy battles for nhs support. hiya!

we're just left in the middle with a lot of empathy from professionals. empathy doesn't buy us sleep. louise and brad fostered and adopted 15—year—old jack and his twin sister chloe when they were little. jack has learning disabilities, epilepsy and challenging behaviour. they have been looking for a permanent foster placement since they were three months old. i think chloe had had six or seven placements and jack had had six. the council provides them with some support but jack's health needs have increased. two years ago he had his right hipjoint removed. only muscle holds the leg in place and at times he is in a lot of pain. if we don't hold that, that willjust go everywhere. it takes two people to reposition him every three hours. at night one of them stays by his bed to help when he is in pain, the other gets up when he needs turning.

you are a bit gorgeous, though, aren't you? their request for two nights of care a week was rejected by the nhs. i just feel tired all the time, exasperated, you feel like you're banging your head against the wall. we are both in our 60s, we've got additional health complications as a result because we don't get enough sleep. more than a hundred families have been in touch with us and several things stand out for what they say. there is huge variation in the support that people get depending on where they live. what appears to be the arbitrary nature of many decisions, and the sheer desperation of families. without help louise and brad fearjack might have to go back into care. we are just saying, "can you just put a member of staff in two nights a week, one of us needs to get a full night's sleep once a week." i don't think we are asking for a moon on a stick.

soon after this they borrowed money to pay for two nights' care a week. the council is now funding that and the local nhs says it is sorry if the process has caused additional distress. nhs england says decisions are based on individual cases with government guidelines ensuring consistency and the government says eligibility for help will vary according to the needs of local areas. alison holt, bbc news. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. bbc news, bringing you different stories from across the uk. - with its origins in the street football of south america, futsal bounds into play at a salford sports centre. wearing kits to match theirsurroundings, pupils form the city have been giving it the thumbs up. it's a bit better than football in a way because in football, you mostlyjust blunder up the pitch but here you have to use the ball and your feet a bit more to get

round players because it's so much smaller. the brand—new futsal court has been paid for by the fa, premier league, football foundation and salford city council, who are putting in £127,000. how much of something like this needed in a place like this? everybody knows that sport helps to increase physical and emotional well—being. and just to get people together in the community, doing things that will benefit them. for more stories from i across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you're live with bbc news. it's valentine's day — and whether you're the kind of person who goes all out or — like the people i saw in the shop earlier — stares at the remna nts of leftover greeting cards until you see the least offensive one, it's still the biggest day of the year for couples. or is it? i posed that question

to professional matchmaker and married at first sight co—host paul c brunson, who, you might be surprised to hear, isn't totally convinced by valentine's day. i tell you, i hope it stops being a thing. i think i'm probably the most unromantic relationship science expert in the world, but i think we do. i think it's completely overrated. it puts way too much pressure on us. so i hope it stops being a thing. why is that? doesn't it give people an opportunity, perhaps, to reach out to their significant other in a way they might not other days of the year? or tell someone that they have feelings for that. i come forward and be honest about it. sure. but we should be doing that every day, samantha. every day should be valentine's day. you know, it's interesting, if you look at the data, we see that the number of marriage proposals goes up, the number of marriages goes up right around valentine's day. but you know what else goes up? divorces, separations, breakups. and to me, that screams.

we're putting way too much pressure on valentine's day. and what about for young people? has it been dominated by influencers nowjust trying to plug things on social media? yeah, absolutely. i mean, people are trying to ride valentine's day hashtags on tik—tok and and other, you know, other social media platforms. but we have to understand is this should be a day if we're going to celebrate anything, let's celebrate us. let's celebrate our wellbeing. let's focus on how we can learn new skills, maybe learn how to better listen to our partner. i guarantee you that will go much longer than roses and chocolate. learn how to actively listen to your partner. ok some good advice. so you're a valentine's day skeptic, but what advice do you have to those who are brought in, who are actually really passionate about valentine's day and want to make it special for their loved ones or significant other? figure out how you turn it to 365 days a year. really, let this be the beginning of something that you commit to do every day, notjust one day a year. and what about for those who perhaps

don't have a significant other really want to find somebody? i know you've got some dating advice, updated dating advice for those who are looking for a partner in the online world, which is probably most people these days. absolutely. ijust wrote a new book. it's called find love. and it's all about all the things that we could do to find or keep love. the number one thing i recommend focus on your well—being. your well is like a superhero's cape. it blocks all of the toxicity in life and all the bad people, and it also helps you to attract people who also have high well—being. so that's developing new skills, that is connecting with loved ones. that is where we should be focused on our well—being. is there a problem, though, that we all have to kind of sell ourselves online if we are looking for someone in terms of a profile, in terms of things we're passionate about so that they tick certain boxes? i think that's the notion is that we have to sell ourselves. but what i'm seeing right now with the data is that what we are embracing is authenticity.

i'm also head of global research for tinder, and what i found there is that number one thing that daters want today is to feel comfortable in front of the person with them. so that is what we want. we want authenticity. so don't feel like you have to sell yourself. if you're going to sell yourself to anyone, sell yourself to yourself. ok, paul so i'm guessing you're not doing anything tonight to celebrate valentine's day, but if you could have your perfect date, what would it be? you know, it's interesting is my wife is coming with me to a book talk because i'm doing a book launch here in london. so she's coming with me. and you know what wwe've given each other today? absolutely nothing. telling us every day should be valentine's day. i will be sure to tell my husband that later. now — there's new evidence suggesting more human—like antics among great apes. scientists say they've compiled the first detailed proof that they like to tease each other. video studies of bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans showed behaviours injuveniles including elements

of surprise and play. dr isabelle laumer is one of the researchers involved in the study — she told us more. this behaviour is not rare. so you if you go to a zoo and spend a few hours there, you'll probably see an example of it. however, it's not something that people have studied before. so people have looked at aggressive teasing, some kind of bullying, or at play, but we were the first to systematically study playful teasing in all the four great ape species. so you see here a juvenile chimpanzee and you see two adults grooming each other. and what you can see here is the hitting. it's also one of the teasing examples. and what you can also see is that the juvenile is hitting and then response waiting. so it's always looking back, looking at the target and watch for the response. so seemingly carefully evaluating how far i can go until it might lead to some aggression or something like that. but i have to say, we rarely

observed aggression. and actually, the body slam, that was also something that all four species showed. and i mean, this was usually shown after they have done other teasing behaviours like poking, hitting. and then finally, if they didn't get a reaction from the target, then they would also sometimes body slam. and they also did that also by surprise. so i think the video you saw there, the juvenile was actuallyjumping on the back of the adult bonobo. i mean, this is a behaviour that definitely provokes a reaction, right? i mean, overall, we found that it's a provocative, intentional behaviour that is also very much one—sided, has playful and aggressive features and is in many ways similar to human infant teasing. so the apes show response looking, they show repetition and also different behaviours when the target is not orjust minimally responding. and it also mostly takes place in relaxed context, which is also happening in children.

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in sarajevo, torvill and dean said they felt they were skating in a bubble, seeming to float a higher plane. ice dancing had never seen this before. music and movement intertwined so gracefully. their sport and their lives would never be the same again. a0 years later, they returned to the city of the famous four minutes 28, minds drifting back. it was so quiet in the arena. as we ended, there was suddenly this huge applause and it was almost like we woke up from a dream. cheering. across the board! it sort of sends chills up my spine, just being there again, and just taking in the sights and sounds of the city. it conjures up so many memories of 40 years ago. ever since bolero and sarajevo the world has wanted to watch torvill and dean skate. it is still hypnotic in the working

men's club in calvert and were christopher dean's career began. when he was four or five years old, i can— when he was four or five years old, i can remember him with a pair of skates_ i can remember him with a pair of skates around his neck. he i can remember him with a pair of skates around his neck.— i can remember him with a pair of skates around his neck. he spent the rest of his life _ skates around his neck. he spent the rest of his life are _ skates around his neck. he spent the rest of his life are nice, _ skates around his neck. he spent the rest of his life are nice, most - skates around his neck. he spent the rest of his life are nice, most of - rest of his life are nice, most of it with jayne torvill. now they are approaching the final twist after all these years. we felt it was time, and so we want to have sort of one last live tour to go around the country, and have a celebration. we just put our heart and soul into it, and obviously over the years we have become the best of friends. so next year, that famous music will finish, but if there's one thing torvill and dean are good at, it's a spectacular ending. it was a wonderful performance. and a final valentine's day story — it is that time of year when some roads are closed and traffic is completely stopped because toads,

frogs, and newts need to cross to start breeding. in bath, a road has been closed for six weeks now to help the toads return to their ancestral breeding lakes. hundreds of volunteers are on hand to get them there safely — as dan johnson reports. when there are toads on the road, you need to call toad patrol, an after dark volunteer protection force. so they like it best when it's not too cold. so it's over seven degrees and it's like this, raining. really got to get your eye in and sort the leaves from the frogs and the toads. so the daily exercise is running down the road in front of cars, and this one, fortunately, wasn't going too fast. so i rescued the toad. it's notjust toads hitting the road to reach their pond... he's a slippery one! ..and getting a helping hand to hop across. we're looking for frogs, toads, newts. they're kind of migrating to where they were born, to mate. a dead frog! but sisters iris and isidora

have sadly discovered not everyone makes it. we found a dead frog in the road and... it was a toad, iris. i think it was a frog. no, it was definitely a toad. it was a frog. last year, 115,000 toads and frogs and newts were saved. so that's actually quite a lot, if you think about it. but they've individually being picked up and taken across the road by volunteers all around the country. so in here we've got four toads. it's not possible to close roads like this everywhere. i was going to put them outjust up the lane a little bit. butjust here, they'll save thousands of amphibian lives over the next few weeks. do you want to go in the bucket or do you want to go out? another happy hopper makes the leap to safety without croaking. donjohnson, bbc news, bath. let's leave you with these pictures, winners of this years super bowl,

the kansas city chiefs have been celebrating their victory in style with a huge parade. more than a million fans are thought to have lined the streets after several schools gave their students the day off to attend. the chiefs won the super bowl against the san francisco a9ers in an overtime thriller with a final score of 25 to 22. they had an average viewership of 123 million people. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. there's been a lot of cloud around today, and it's been quite misty and murky around some hills and coasts. a few lucky places though did manage to see a peep of sunshine coming through that cloud. that was barnsley. and this weatherwatcher picture is in newquay, and both locations reached 13 celsius this afternoon. we had temperatures reaching 15 celsius in herefordshire and norfolk, with a bit of rain and drizzle around too. but it's getting wetter actually this evening and overnight. and that wet weather will drive its way northwards up into scotland.

at the same time, southern areas may turn drier later on. temperatures are going to rise actually in scotland overnight with that wet weather coming in and elsewhere, temperatures really aren't going to drop very much at all. it'll be a very mild start to tomorrow. our air originated actually from the azores, and at the moment we're seeing a southerly breeze coming in, bringing that milder air our way ahead of this weatherfront, which will bring some rain back in from the west. but we've got a wet start in scotland. that rain moves up towards the north and rain clears northern ireland but heads back into scotland. and then we'll see some rain for wales and western england, maybe some heavier bursts later in southwest england and the midlands. but ahead of that, lincolnshire, east anglia, the southeast should stay dry and bright, maybe a bit of sunshine coming through, and these are the temperatures we'd normally get at this time of the year. but this is what we're seeing on thursday, even milder than today — 16, possibly 17 celsius is on the cards across east anglia, in the southeast, if the cloud does break up sufficiently to give us some sunshine. but that's still quite a long way off that february temperature

record set back in 2019. now, there will be some rain pushing eastwards on thursday night. there's more weather fronts queuing up in the atlantic. that one's just going to fade away. this one will bring some rain eastwards during the weekend. but with some rain overnight moving eastwards, we're going to see the last of that clear away from east anglia in the southeast. and then we're all in the same boat. there'll be some sunshine coming through now and again, a fair bit of cloud, the odd shower around, but not very many of those, large parts of the country will be dry. so a drier day on friday, not quite as mild, but still those temperatures above average — 12 in central scotland, 1a in the southeast of england. and we've still got that same sort of mild air in place on saturday. it could be quite a bit of cloud, best of the sunshine in the east and out to the west where we see that weather front that's bringing rain, northern ireland, western scotland and the far southwest of england. and ahead of that, it's about 12 celsius.

hello, i'm lewis vaughanjones, and this is the context on bbc news. this is the second successful attack the ukrainians have mounted against russian warships in the past month alone. they have actually been able to push the black sea fleet away from the western part of the black sea, and this is a great achievement, a great victory for the ukrainians. the united states continues to stand foursquare with ukraine, _

and america will continue to support ukraine's principal fight _ against putin's imperial aggression. we know that we are on the right side of fighting off this illegal aggression. all we need to show is that we have the political will. hello. we'll have the latest from ukraine and from a nato meeting this afternoon and we'll be taking a look at what we know about these pictures. ukrainian drones sinking a russian ship, say the ukrainians. we'll look at what we can verify. in the uk, inflation stays at a%, and food prices fell injanuary for the first time in two years. and we'll look at al fakes and elections. can we spot them, and can we stop them? we are going to start in ukraine.