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
thousands of royal mail workers in the uk stage a second day of strike action in a row over pay, disrupting deliveries of packages and letters. a new study shows the impact of climate change on the shrinking glaciers of switzerland. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, or around the world. the last leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev, has died, aged 91, following a long illness. mr gorbachev was crucial to ending the cold war. he was one of the most influential political figures of the 20th century. world leaders have been paying tribute. the un chief antonio guterres said he changed the course of history . president biden described him as a man of remarkable vision , who created a safer world . however, in a stamement this morning the kremlin said his romanticism about better relations with the west had been misplaced. our moscow editor, steve rosenberg, looks back at his life. he was the kind of russian leader the world had never seen. mikhail gorb
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