hello, i m lucy hockings. russia has blamed the united states for wednesday s alleged drone attack on the kremlin. moscow initially blamed kyiv directly, but the kremlin spokesman, dmitry peskov, has now told reporters that the decision to attack was made in washington, with kyiv executing it on us orders. he gave no evidence. kyiv has denied any involvement, saying it s focused on defending its own territory. the foreign ministry in moscow has separately accused ukraine of launching an unprecedented wave of sabotage attacks against russia. in the hague, president volodymyr zelensky has called for a fully fledged tribunal to hold russia accountable for its war of aggression against ukraine. he made the comments in a speech after visiting the international criminal court. it has symbolic importance, coming less than two months after the icc issued arrest warrants for vladimir putin on war crimes charges. let s listen to what he said at the hague. lasting peace after victory is
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hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. twitter s new owner elon musk has defended his decision to sack about half the firm s workforce without warning. mr musk said the social media platform was losing large sums of money every day. he s insisted twitter s commitment to content moderation remains unchanged, despite the loss of key staff and anxiety among advertisers. in an interview, elon musk revealed that twitter was losing around $4 million a day, meaning costs had to be cut. he promised twitter wouldn t degenerate into what he called a free for all hellscape when content moderation is loosened. but advertisers including general motors have withdrawn their business, which is likely to lead to a drop in revenues. and now twitter faces lawsuits from the hundreds of employees over the way they were fired. out technology editor, zoe kleinman, reports. elon musk did not speak to any of the twitter employees laid off today. he was a surprise guest
a british man freed after being held by russian backed forces in ukraine describes how he was stabbed by a russian officer and thought he was going to die in captivity. and from a dead rat to an exploding martini glass. the bbc gets rare access into the cia s secret museum where thousands of exhibits and artefacts mark the agency s 75 year history. hello and welcome to bbc news. voting is under way in italy s general election. polling stations opened two hours ago. opinion polls taken during the campain suggest the country will get its first ever female prime minister, and its first far right leader since mussolini, in giorgia meloni. a win for her party would be expected to see the return of silvio berlusconi and matteo salvini to government, two men who ve had ties to russia s president putin. our rome correspondent mark lowen reports. there are some things that italians agree on they ve got the best coffee and food and many they don t. politics is one of them, and it s
and that does suggest a real intelligence failure by the russian side. britain, meanwhile, isjust starting to get over the extraordinary last few days when the world s leaders came to london to pay their respects to queen elizabeth ii. i think the leaders enjoyed the fact that they were going to the most extraordinary diplomatic reception in buckingham palace. and how are iran s women responding to the increasingly brutal crackdown on the way they dress? what s fascinating about these protests is seeing these young, brave women who are not scared. president putin has given his clearest warning yet that he could use nuclear weapons if ukraine attacks russian territory. and he s going to turn four regions of russian occupied ukraine into russian territory. the areas, that is, which the ukrainian forces are starting to recapture. and president putin is getting legislation passed to make it possible to introduce partial mobilisation in russia and martial law if necessary. the