counter offensive against russian forces. in a rare interview, oleksiy danilov describes the planned assault as an historic opportunity . now on bbc news.political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than an interrogation of someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. every so often there s an issue that bubbles up. if you ll forgive the metaphor, and reaches beyond the westminster bubble. the issue we re talking about today is the issue of sewage, the quality of our waterways, our rivers and our seas. my my guest this week is the man who is insured that no political figure can and should ignore the question of the waterways. he is keen angler, campaigner, and original lead singer with the undertones, fergal sharkey, a man who left the stage in order to campaign for musician s right before taking up his current position another one of the country s leading environmental campaigners. he b
the result of sabotage. the uk must prepare for a big wave of flu this winter, say health experts, as people are urged to get flu and covid vaccines. and the spotlight is on glasgow and liverpool, as they vie to host next year s eurovision song contest. and coming up on the bbc news channel, england s women will play their first ever stand alone fixture at twickenham next year. theirfinal six nations match against france will take place at rugby hq. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the bank of england has made a surprise intervention to try to calm the financial markets, by launching a temporary uk government bond buying programme. it s an attempt to get long term borrowing costs down. they had been. since last week s mini budget. the emergency move is to stave off what the bank said was a material risk to the country s financial stability , given the turmoil that s followed friday s mini budget. the bank said its intervention was to restore orderly market
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