hangs in the balance as the world turns away from performing animals. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. russia has announced that 63 of its soldiers were killed in a new year s eve attack by ukrainian forces. they were using himars rockets supplied by the us. it s the biggest death toll acknowledged by moscow for a single incident in the war, but ukraine says the strike killed hundreds of russian soldiers. russian military commanders have been strongly criticised over the deaths. our correspondent hugo bachega reports from kyiv. in a town in eastern ukraine, rubble and many questions. this used to be a school, apparently turned into a base for russian soldiers.
welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. russia acknowledges 63 of its soldiers died in a ukrainian attack in donetsk. kyiv claims the actual number is in the hundreds. the international monetary fund warns that 2023 is going to be a tough year as economies around the globe slow down. thousands queue to pay their respects to brazilian football legend pele, as he lies in state at his former club santos. the uk s national health service in crisis, as accident and emergency departments come under impossible strain. and the future for thousands of thai elephants hangs in the balance, as the world turns away from performing animals.
worried about and concerned about singapore s future. this is a place that has been the main beneficiary of globalization. and as the world turns against globalization, as the world becomes more inward-looking, as countries in europe and the u.s. becomes more concerned about protecting their own borders, literally in the case of the u.s., there is a high probability that singapore will not thrive in such a world . a lot of social engineering has been superimposed to hold that together, and i think quite a lot of westerners who come to singapore, who come here skeptical, are often reluctantly pulled into the inescapable