and he said the kremlin had taken the country as a nuclear hostage. ukraine says the deployment violates nonproliferation commitments, something mr putin has denied. translation: we have already transferred - to belarus our well known, very effective complex iskander. it can be a delivery vehicle as well. on april 3, we will start training the crews. onjuly 1, we will finish the construction of the special repository to store the tactical nuclear weapon in belarus. i m joined from kyiv by our correspondent, hugo bachega. just talk us through what happened. i think what we ve seen since the beginning of the conflict is that president putin and senior russian officials have frequently talked about nuclear weapons and even the possibility of nuclear weapons being used in this conflict and they know that every time the nuclear issue comes up, those remarks spark concerns in some countries, reactions in some nations, there is exactly what we re seeing today and perhaps this the in
but a complicated answer, i suspect. who s winning? clive murray, there, presenting the news at ten from ukraine, where he was all last week. the weary response of mike mckinnon. well, we asked bbc news, not for the first time, why it was felt necessary to send news presenters off on location in that way. they told us. do let us know your thoughts on anything we re covering in this programme or on any aspect of bbc news. there will be details of how to contact us at the end of the programme. you have already been letting us know your views on our new studio, as invited, and here are a couple of comments about, well, this sofa. first, john telfer. and irene mackinnon wondered. we can reassurejohn that this is actually a different, though admittedly rather similar sofa to that used for breakfast. and in answer to irene, i am very much hoping to have some guests to share it with in the coming weeks, and besides, several other bbc programmes use the studio as well. now, for a lon
as he lies in state at the vatican a hearse carrying pele s coffin makes the journey from sao paulo to santos where the brazilian football legend will lie in state ahead of his funeral on tuesday. and a warning from the international monetary fund, it says a third of the world will be in recession this year. for most of the world economy this is going to be a tough year. tougher than hello and welcome to bbc news. ukraine says russia attacked kyiv with waves of explosive drones overnight, targeting critical infrastructure. the military said air defence forces shot down all 39 iranian made drones. but the mayor of kyiv, vitaly klitschko, said energy facilities were damaged, disrupting power and heating supplies. let s speak to our correspondent, hugo bachega, who s in kyiv. what is the latest on those overnight attacks? the what is the latest on those overnight attacks? what is the latest on those overniaht attacks? . ., ,., overnight attacks? the mayor said one person over
against the prime minister in a significant revolt against his leadership. ijust hope that, given the mood of the public, the vote we have had here tonight, that the cabinet will tell the prime minister that, in the words of steve baker, the gig is up. i predict we will have a new leader of the party, a new prime minister, by party conference this year. i m geeta guru murthy live in westminster where we ll be bringing you the latest reaction to the vote. i m joined by conservative mp still very much backing the prime minister. three police officers in the us state of arizona have been put on leave after they stood by and watched a homeless man drowning. ukraine s president says his forces are holding out against russian advances in key cities in the donbas region. the family of a british geologist jailed for 15 years in iraq for attempting to remove historial artefacts says they are shocked by the punishment saying it amounts to a death sentence. hello and welcome if you re
the biggest audiences. and, of course, way before television came radio, and what do you need to broadcast a voice to the nation? one of these. and one of the most iconic mics ever is the bbc marconi type a. and trust me when i say it s iconic, i mean it is an icon literally. one of our panellists, joe leates, really likes this microphone i mean, really likes this microphone and he spent the last few months uncovering its story, and here it is. not many are around these days especially ones that work as it became tradition at the corporation to empty the insides and plate them with gold as leaving presents for announcers. but what a thing to have on your mantelpiece! the good news, though, is here at the bbc, we have plenty. you ll notice it looks pretty hefty, and it s actually really big, so it tended to stay in the studios and leave the world travel to its smaller counterparts. but what it missed in adventure it made up for in the circles it socialised in. it pla