cities around the country. translation: cities around the country. translation: , ., ., . ., translation: they want to panic and chaos, to destroy translation: they want to panic and chaos, to destroy our translation: they want to panic and chaos, to destroy our energy - translation: they want to panic and chaos, to destroy our energy system. | chaos, to destroy our energy system. they are hopeless. the second target is people. such a time in such goals were specially chosen to cause as much damage as possible. it comes as president putin prepares to meet his security council after accusing ukraine of attacking the bridge between russia and crimea. and the attacks continue on other cities in the west of ukraine, following up sunday s missile strike on zaphorizhzhia. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. i m lukwesa burak. there have been multiple strikes and explosions across ukraine, including the capital. here s what we know so far. a serie
and the sketch, once dismissed by art experts as a crude imitation of a rembrandt painting, has turned out to be the real deal. the former prime minister of pakistan, imran khan, is recovering in hospital after being shot in the leg at a rally on thursday. one person died and several were injured when a burst of gunfire hit mr khan s vehicle, in the eastern city of wazirabad. his supporters took to the streets in several pakistani cities after the attack. from pakistan, our correspondent samira hussain reports. thursday s protest march started like all the others, and then this happened. rapid gunfire. footage shared on social media, confirmed by the bbc, shows a conscious imran khan with a bandage on his right leg being taken to hospital. here, you can see a man with a gun. he was eventually caught. in a leaked video of his statement to police, he said he wanted to kill mr khan. the current prime minister condemned the attack and has called for an investigation. pakistan s p
the suburbs around tehran are being drained of people. locals in this neighbourhood have said 70% of the community has orally left and many of those living here now are thinking of joining them. here now are thinking ofjoining them. twitter staff are bracing themselves, after the company said it will tell them today whether they will be laid off, following the takeover by elon musk. and wakanda forever the long awaited sequel to the oscar winning film black panther has had its european premiere in london. hello and welcome to the programme. the german chancellor, olaf scholz, is in beijing, on a trip that s sparked controversy in germany and elsewhere in europe. he s the first western leader to have gone to china in over three years, and his visit comes as relations between beijing and the west have started to sour. tom brada has the latest. receiving the red carpet treatment in beijing, chancellor olaf scholz is in china for a whistle stop tour. travelling with several
plus rising prices falling ratings. can president biden win the argument on the us economy with just days to go until the midterm elections? and a pressing crisis. the cost of olive oil set to soar with harvests shrivelled by europe s summer heatwave. hello. we start here in the uk which is now facing the longest recession since records began, a century ago. that was the bleak warning from the bank of england on thursday, as it raised interest rates to 3% to try to dampen down soaring inflation. the bank says the uk economy is already in recession, and could keep declining until the middle of 202a. the pound slumped on the news to its lowest in more than two weeks. here s our economics editor faisal islam. the end of a decade and a half of ultralow interest rates was always going to be difficult, but dealing in mortgages has in recent weeks felt more like the stock market than the housing market. , , stock market than the housing market. , , . ., , market