a historic moment. the first time anyone has tried to drill down through this glacier beneath the 600 meters of ice. below me is the most important point of all. the point at which the ice meets the ocean. # i can rub and scrub this house # till it s shining just like a dime.# and the hollywood film star and model raquel welsh has died at the age of 82. hello and welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. thousands of refugees who fled the war in syria to cross into turkey have arrived at the border hoping to go back to their home country after last week s earthquakes. turkey has said it will allow them to leave for up to six months. the combined death toll in turkey and syria has climbed to more than 41,000, and millions are in need of humanitarian aid. the bbc s laura bicker has been to antakya, close to the turkish border, where desparate syrian families continue to arrive. the last time these syrian families crossed this border, it was with dreams of a
finland s conservative leader petteri orpo wins a nail biting three way election race, defeating prime minister sanna marin. hello and welcome. i m ben thompson. russia s investigators have detained a 26 year old woman, darya trepova, in connection with the murder of the pro war blogger vladen tatarsky, who was killed by a bomb in st petersburg on sunday. media reports said the explosion occurred shortly after he had been given a statuette by a woman at an event in a cafe. russia s security service has accused ukraine of being behind the blast, but ukrainian officials have denied this. a short time ago russia s anti terrorism committee said it believes the attack was planned by ukrainian secret services, jointly with people cooperating with jailed opposition leader alexei navalny s anti corru ption foundation. our correspondent will vernon in moscow has more. i m just seeing a short statement that has come in from the russian investigative committee, which is russia s versi
beenin relationship with europe, she has been in favour of continuing to amp you have, but she has two coalition partners to arm kyiv she has two coalition partners who have sided with vladimir putin. what kind of challenge do think she will face internal and within her coalition? yes, she will face pressure. they are very much against sanctions, and they are also against sending weapons to ukraine. so whether this means they will continue to send weapons to ukraine or sanctions is debatable, but it still means that there would be a debate, but we do not know what the italian position would be was an international system. it is still possible that these discussions. atlantic alliance and our international position will be damaged by this. professor, thank you very much indeed for your thoughts the zoom in. momentous night for italy, it looks like they have elected their first ever female leader and their first ever female leader and their first right wing far right l
Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. Besieged by tourists, venice starts charging day trippers to visit. Is this the way forward for overwhelmed cities . In fact, we are going to start in europe. The french president , emmanuel macron, has painted a rather bleak picture of the European Union today. Despite the big strides he believes the eu made towards closer integration post covid and in response to the war in ukraine, it needs to be much more aggressive, he said, in defending its own interests. The wake up, he said, has been too slow and there is mortal danger, as he put it, if the union becomes a vassal of the United States and fails to stand up for itself on trade. Translation we must be lucid to the fact that our europe today is mortal. She can die. Echoing his past calls for europe to plot a third way between the us and china, the french president called for a scaling up stronger, more integrated European Defences, a more sustainable economic model
13 hikers have been found dead near the crater of indonesia s mount marapi volcano after it erupted over the weekend. the initial death toll was 11 but a short time ago, a rescue official reported two additional bodies were found, and the number was revised up. at least ten others are missing and the search was suspended on monday after another, smaller eruption. there were 75 hikers in the area during the main eruption on sunday but most were safely evacuated. let s go live now to bangkok and our south east asia correspondentjonathan head. bring us up to date with the latest and this figure of 13 who have been found dead? 13 and this figure of 13 who have been found dead? and this figure of 13 who have been found dead? . . , , found dead? 13 dead and ten missing, there is a great found dead? 13 dead and ten missing, there is a great deal found dead? 13 dead and ten missing, there is a great deal of found dead? 13 dead and ten missing, there is a great deal of concern