disruption tomorrow with the icy conditions, could be issues on rail services too because of the cold weather and they have told people not to drive unless they really, really have two tomorrow. the higher you are, the more likely you are to see some of the white stuff around you. tomos, thank you. this image of a young polar bear asleep on an iceberg has won the wildlife photographer of the year people s choice award. the man who took it has told us all about how he got that image. the population of sudan needs humanitarian assistance. 25 million people far too this programme continues on bbc one. is the shadow cabinet at war with itself? it s three years since the shadow chancellor rachel reeves announced the £28 billion green bonanza, boasting it would make labour the greenest government in history. since then it s been going and going and now it appears gone. we ll be asking one of tony blair s former senior operatives and the leader of a labour think tank if keir star
now, she lives in exile, forced out of austria, she says, by death threats. what does her story say about vienna s close ties to moscow and the impact of austria s neutrality? karin kneissl, in northern lebanon, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for your invitation, mr sackur. well, it s a pleasure to have you on the show. i think we have to start with this question about your location. you were a senior member of the austrian diplomatic political elite, until recently. now, you ve left your home country and you re in exile in lebanon. just explain to me why. well, when our government literally imploded in 2019, all i wanted was to continue my academic work and publishing, but i had to find out that there was not a single contract. furthermore, a lot of harassment, also the death threats. but the bigger problem, honestly, was this de facto prohibition to work, so i decided to quit and first, i went to france and now, i m in lebanon and i cherish the freedom of mind here in leban
and japan meet for the first time in 12 years, seeking to set aside historic differences. the european central bank has hiked interest rates by half of 1%, despite the impact of rising rates on the banking sector. it comes as central banks and governments around the world are nervously watching whether the crisis surrounding credit suisse will develop into a global banking crisis. shares in credit suisse have stabilised after the swiss national bank offered it a funding lifeline. so how did we get here? credit suisse was already in trouble before its biggest investor saudi national bank announced on wednesday that it could offer no more financial support. that lead to its share price plummetting by 30%. late wednesday the swiss central bank said it would provide financial support to the tune of $54 billion us dollars. that has reassured the markets for now but concerns remain about contagion from the collapse of the two us banks last week. it is all quite complex, it is all q
the economy with its new plan to cut tax and increase borrowing. don t forget, don t forgive. the only way to stop this is with a labour government. applause and nasa has deliberately flown a space craft into an asteroid to push it off course in the first test of a planetary defence system. voting has ended in widely discredited referendums organised by russia in four occupied regions in ukraine. as expected, russia is claiming that an overwhelming majority of residents are in favour ofjoining russia, but not all the votes have yet been counted. ukraine and the west have condemned the five day vote as a sham and an attempted land grab by moscow. russia s president claims hejust wants to help people living there. nearly four million people from the eastern regions of donetsk and luhansk and the southern regions of kherson and zaporizhzhia were to attend polling stations and vote. the areas in question represent 15% of ukraine s territory roughly the size of portugal. b