We begin in niger, where the Breaking News in the last half an hour is the military leaders who staged a coup say they have closed the countrys airspace over what they called the threat of intervention against them. The announcement came as a deadline expired for them to restore the ousted president or face the possible action from the west African Regional grouping known as ecowas. Earlier thousands of people gathered in nigers capital to support the militaryjunta, despite International Condemnation of the soldiers actions. Some neighbouring countries including mali, burkina faso and guinea have voiced support for the coup leaders. And algeria, which Borders Niger to the north, has said it is categorically against armed intervention. France says it will support efforts by ecowas to restore nigers elected president. Nigers Prime Minister was in paris on saturday, meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the countrys embassy. He has dismissed that pro coup protests are taking p
did play a part in the suicide of british teenager molly russell. burkina faso s army captain ousts the country s military leader and dissolves the government in the second takeover in eight months. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president biden has warned russia that it will not get away with seizing its neighbour s land by force after vladimir putin announced the annexation of four occupied it s the biggest seizure of territory in europe since the second world war. in a signing ceremony at the kremlin, mr putin declared that donetsk, luhansk, zaporizhzhia and kherson are now part of russia. in response, ukraine has formally applied to join nato. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. vladimir vladimirovich putin. what he was about to do had sparked international condemnation, but vladimir putin didn t care. in the kremlin, he announced the annexation of 15% of ukrainian land. in the audience, kremlin appointed officials from those territo
we begin in niger, where the breaking news in the last half an hour is the military leaders who staged a coup say they have closed the country s airspace over what they called the threat of intervention against them. the announcement came as a deadline expired for them to restore the ousted president or face the possible action from the west african regional grouping known as ecowas. earlier thousands of people gathered in niger s capital to support the militaryjunta, despite international condemnation of the soldiers actions. some neighbouring countries including mali, burkina faso and guinea have voiced support for the coup leaders. and algeria, which borders niger to the north, has said it is categorically against armed intervention. france says it will support efforts by ecowas to restore niger s elected president.
when they took power. burkina fasois when they took power. burkina faso is part of this group of countries in the west of africa where islamist insurgent groups have been trying to carve out territory. and back injanuary went paul henri damiba and his group s of soldiers took power, they said they would be able to tackle those groups. eight months later many in burkina faso feel they have not done enough and the new leaders of this coup say that the last interim leader, paul henri damiba, was too busy pursuing his political ambitions to try and secure the country. they say they have been given no choice but to take over. i have made promises for the international immunity that they will respect all of their obligations, including respect of human rights, and the united states has already released a statement saying they are concerned as to the latest development in burkina faso and urging their citizens to limit movement. i think one key thing to look out for over the next