but is there any prospect of more effective leaders emerging? well, my guest is former acting prime minister claudejoseph. can haiti s unfolding catastrophe be reversed? would an armed international intervention make things better or worse? claudejoseph in port au prince, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, mr sackur. it s a pleasure. thank you forjoining us in what is still a very difficult situation in your country. tell me, since ariel henry, the prime minister, told the nation that he was quitting, has anything really changed around you in the capital port au prince, or in haiti? has any of the violence, any sense of the crisis changed? i must say that, of course we ve seen a change, days are calm. the. the people now are trying to move to. ..to the specific activities. it s a new page. it s a new chapter. it seems that people were waiting for this decision to be made. er. let me ask you something very simple- if you were to walk outside your own home right now onto the str
and suggested mr netanyahu risked making his country a pariah. republicans have already hit back at his words. schumer is one of america s highest ranking jewish politicians and a close ally of president biden. here s some of what he had to say in the senate. the fourth major obstacle to peace is israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, who has all too frequently bowed to the demands of extremists like ministers smotrich and ben gvir and the settlers in the west bank. the state department has responded to chuck schumer s comments, stressing they are not a reflection of president biden s position. obviously, congress is an independent branch of government. i think the government of israel understands quite well how the us government works. they interact frequently, notjust with members of the executive branch, but with members of congress, including senator schumer, who has travelled to israel a number of times over the years. and i m sure they fully understand that he
republicans have already hit back at his words. schumer is one of america s highest ranking jewish politicians and a close ally of president biden. here s some of what he had to say in the senate. the fourth major obstacle to peace is israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, who has all too frequently bowed to the demands of extremists like ministers smotrich and ben gvir and the settlers in the west bank. the state department has responded to chuck schumer s comments, stressing they are not a reflection of president biden s position. obviously, congress is an independent branch of government. i think the government of israel understands quite well how the us government works. they interact frequently, notjust with members of the executive branch, but with members of congress, including senator schumer, who has travelled to israel a number of times over the years. and i m sure they fully understand that he speaks for himself. he s obviously someone we are in close contact
to help them on the way to the win. it means david moyes has led the team to a european quarter finalfor the third year in a row. hugely pleased with the goals and a level of the performance and a level of the performance and how well the players did tonight. we were really unhappy from the first game. all the staff, the players, we felt we shouldn t have come out with the result we had. we had to live with that and try and put it right and tonight we did. there were remarkable scenes as bayer leverkusen kept their unbeaten season alive late on to beat qarabag. the visitors were 2 0 up, 4 2 ahead on aggregate, but xabi alonso s side went on to win 3 2 on the night, thanks to two stoppage time goals from patrik schick. elsewhere, rangers are out after being beaten 1 0 on the night by benfica at ibrox. liverpool are comfortably through, beating sparta 11 2 on aggregate. brighton s european journey is over that 4 0 defeat in the first leg against roma too much to overturn. mil
and this is the scene live at a polling station in moscow. there is the potential for a run off vote if no candidate wins more than 50% in the first round. but with many of mr putin s opponents unable to run, it seems inevitable that vladimir putin will be re elected without a need for that second ballot. the election is encompassing the territories which russia has annexed in ukraine. in all, more than 112 million people have the right to vote at the last election, in 2018, he took more than three quarters of the vote. our russia editor, steve rosenberg has more on the issues surrounding this election. these days, when vladimir ovchinnikov paints russia, the result is very dark. from a mountain of skulls and a dictator s ambition to this russia s war in ukraine likened to stalin s terror. the 86 year old artist had taken his anti war message onto the streets, graffitiing stop the war . all these paintings were scrubbed out, and vladimir fined twice for discrediting the