and stonehenge is lit with pictures of queen elizabeth for herjubilee, we look at the image of britishness that she projects around the world. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. by the end of the year, the eu will be blocking 90% of its oil imports from russia. that is the message coming from the eu member states as they imposed further sanctions against vladimir putin s government over its invasion of ukraine. the bloc agreed to ban more than two thirds of russian oil imports straight away at a summit in brussels, where hungary, heavily dependent on russian oil, resisted a full oil embargo. european commission president, ursula von der leyen said the agreement was very significant for reasons of climate as well as dealing with moscow. it isa it is a big step forward what we did today because indeed we now have got rid of coal and this was already very difficult. now we have basically the political agreement, how to face out oil in a clear timefram
welcome to hardtalk. i am stephen sackur. uruguay is a beacon of prosperity and democratic stability and sometimes turbulent south america. a decade ago under left wing leadership, it was also a pioneer of progressive social policies. the legalisation of cannabis and abortion rights. my guest today is president luis lacalle pou. he is a fan of unfettered free market economics. does that swim against the tide of public opinion in latin america? president luis lacalle pou. welcome to hardtalk. mr president, what is it like being as centre right politician on the continent that is quite clearly moving to the centre left? you are swimming against the political tide. a coalition of five parties that supported this government. you have the for the right, centre right and centreleft. and i have the bonds between these five parties. this party to the citizens and if you read the programme, you will not be able to find centre right. the question is important because your relatively sm
to come and staff shortages. it is half term and lots of people trying to get away and having a tough time. whose fault is it. whose fault is it. usually disappointing. whose fault is it. usually disappointing. have - whose fault is it. usually| disappointing. have them whose fault is it. usually - disappointing. have them going anywhere, half term in thejubilee, and it looks it is a bit of a blame game going on and staff shortages, within a plan for, was not accounted for in clear that it s for the most extended bank holiday weekend and some blame directed towards them for the government and working with the alliance and try to prevent this, there also the telegraph reporting that the makers for turning up too early to airports and therefore, causing delays in causing this chaos. none of which is particularly helpful to the people were not experiencing this but it is a great shame that this was not, in many ways foreseen because clearly people would want to try and take a
uefa and the parisian police have so many questions to answer. the united nations says a record 1 billion methamphetamine pills were seized in east and southeast asia last year. and as stonehenge is lit with pictures of queen elizabeth for herjubilee, we look at the image of britishness the queen projects around the world. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore and 1am in ukraine, where russian forces have intensified their attack on the eastern donbas region. their renewed assault comes as president biden ruled out sending advanced long range rocket systems to ukraine to help it fight the russian invasion. meanwhile, the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky, has urged european union leaders meeting in brussels to resolve their disagreements and impose wider sanctions on russia. our correspondentjeremy bowen and cameraman fred scott have been in the donbas, where the russians are trying to encircle the city
meth amphetmine pills were seized in east and southeast asia last year with gangs exploiting political instability in myanamar to ramp up drug production and trafficking hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are mo hussein, a former adviser to the conservative party, and benedicte paviot, who s is the uk correspondent for france 24. tomorrow s front pages, starting with thei it says that the possibility of a leadership challenge against the pm inches closer, as more tory mps call for borisjohnson to resign orface a confidence vote. in the telegraph police forces are routinely failing to answer 999 calls within target times in the wake of the pandemic, leaving nearly 3 million people a year waiting longer than the national target of 10 seconds. the daily mail says that ministers are facing mounting pressure to cut fuel taxes further after the cost of filling a family car with diesel passed 100 pounds for the first tim