Military base. Disputes continued. At the United Nations and the international courts for many years. With me is our correspondent andrew harding, one of the few people that has been to the Chagos Islands. This is a long running story. Take us through the decision today. It story. Take us through the decision today. Decision today. It is an extraordinary decision today. It is an extraordinary story. I decision today. It is an | extraordinary story. As decision today. It is an extraordinary story. As you say, it has been in the courts for a long time. A dispute that has rumbled on in the background. Most people listening to the stand watching this will never have heard of the Chagos Islands. That they might have heard of Diego Garcia, the american Military Base which is really at the heart of the dispute and this breakthrough today. The mauritian government and the British Government are framing it like this, it is about military. In the Indian Ocean. Back when mauritius won its indepen
Eastern europe correspondent. She explaIned the tImIng of the announcement of the expulsIon. Yeah, I thInk Its faIr to say that the tImIng Is no accIdent. I thInk thIs Is quIte clearly, or the tImIng of the announcement certaInly Is quIte clearly lInked to those talks that are takIng place now over whether or not ukraIne should be allowed to use long range western mIssIles to fIre deep wIthIn russIa at targets there. So I thInk It Is a connected statement that weve seen today from the fsb, the SecurIty ServIce In russIa. Now, what theyre sayIng Is that they have expelled or removed the accredItatIon from sIx brItIsh dIplomats at the brItIsh embassy In moscow, who they were accusIng of IntellIgence actIvItIes and subversIve actIons. But I thInk Its the language around that whIch Is perhaps more IndIcatIve, because what the fsb Is claImIng Is that the brItIsh government, the brItIsh ForeIgn OffIce, Is specIfIcally engaged In subversIon In russIa. It says theres an entIre department whIch
the things they usually talk about. trade and security and iran and the indo pacific. even more than that, he will focus on ukraine. he said he s going to stress that now that is the time. just turning this down. now is the time to move further and faster and getting ukraine the tools that it needs to win the war. his emphasis has been on weapons. the brits announced they would give 1a tanks to ukraine, and thatis would give 1a tanks to ukraine, and that is something that britain is hoping will inspire others, especially in europe, especially germany, to follow through. the germans have those leopard tanks that would be very effective. not the kind of the messages come with off the back of that announcement. that s the kind of. as soon as james cleverly and anthony lee can come out, we will listen. i imagine northern ireland may come up as well. ., , ~ northern ireland may come up as well. ., , ~ ., , well. antony blinken. but does come u- well. antony blin
to have fallen into russian hands since mariupol. a third day of strike action disrupt services on the uk s rail network. rmt general secretary mick lynch says further industrial action hasn t been ruled out. borisjohnson has insisted that questions over his leadership have been settled and that he will lead the conservative party into the next general election. his comments follow the tories defeat in two by elections this week. speaking to the bbc from rwanda, where he s attending a commonwealth meeting, he said people were heartily sick of questions about his conduct and that a psychological transformation of his character would not happen. this report from alex forsyth in the rwandan capital kigali, contains some flash photography. diplomacy has been at the forefront of this commonwealth summit, but for the prime minister this morning, issues closer to home were dominant. evening, sir. last night, he attended an official dinner with his wife, carriejohnson, mingling with
The bbc news is that theyve released some new guidelines for presenters and personalities use of social media. News people have to stick to the rules of being completely impartial and not say anything controversial which is all has been the case, but presenters of certain flagship programmes like much of the day your antiques roadshow have been told they cant tweet anything that might be considered controversial while their shows on air orjust before or after they are on air. This is a reaction to that whole row about gary lineker and his tweets that caused a huge for rory and then the bbc had to wrestle with its commitment to impartiality but then what about folk who arent doing news shows and maybe do a handful of shows a year or a collection of shows but also do lots of other work and might want to express views about stuff . And news about gb news is that ofcom, the communications regulator, has announced they are doing an official investigation into those comments by the actor and