Volodymyr Zelensky: Russia's gains in the east of Ukraine are temporary

Ukrainian officials said Moscow had taken more than 40 villages in the Donbas region on Thursday, but stressed that Mariupol had not yet fallen. President Volodymyr Zelensky has told Russia its recent gains in the east of the country are only temporary and its forces will be forced back across the border. Tanya Kozyreva, reporter based in Zaporizhzhia, to give us the latest.

It is the final day of campaigning in the French presidential election, with the centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen making their final appeals to voters. The BBC's James Coomarasamy reports from Dijon in eastern France.

The world’s largest particle accelerator is about to restart after a three-year shutdown during which it has received a major upgrade. Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider on the Swis- French border believe that the new machine will discover particles that are completely new to science. BBC Science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh, gains exclusive access to the detectors deep underground.