welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. russia has shown that it s determined to assert control over ukraine s black sea coast. that s despite moscow s decision to withdraw from the much fought over snake island earlier this week. kyiv has accused moscow of stealing grain and sending it abroad from the occupied port of berdyansk. a russian registered ship has left berdyansk with a cargo of grain and is currently lying off the turkish coast near port of karasu. ukraine is demanding that turkey, a nato member intercepts it. mark lobel has more. ukraine once this cargo ship, filled by the bbc, to be seized. it is carrying green that ukraine says has been stolen from a russian occupied part of their country, allegations russia denies. the bbc has been tracking the ship, believed to be leased to the russian company, greenline, which is not under any sanctions, across the black sea on a journey that began on wednesday week. it is transporting around 7000 tonn
hello and welcome to bbc news. google has announced it s taking steps to remove data from its servers that could be used to prosecute people for visits to abortion clinics in the united states. it comes after the us supreme court s decision to remove a woman s constitutional right to an abortion. several states have already acted to outlaw the procedure, or severely restrict access to it. geoffrey fowler is a tech columnist with the washington post, and says tech companies need to do more to protect the sensitive data of their users. google today made basically the first statement it s made since we learned about the supreme court ruling about what kind of change it was actually going to make to its products. it said when its naps service or location data collection that it does notices that a user is near a personal location, a highly sensitive personal location, be it a hospital, clinic or shelter, it would now automatically delete that data point coming up over the next
Designers for architects. Wherever yourejoining me from Around The World, once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. You know, our cities, theyre home to governments, cathedrals, universities, hospitals, hundreds of millions of homes and billions of people. They dominate the Global Economy, but they also generate the vast majority, 70 , of the worlds carbon emissions. The world, it has become more populous than at any point in history. And since 1980, the proportion of People Living in urban areas, it has soared. In that year, it was just over 39 . By 2007, for the first time, more than half of the global population were living in an urban setting. And here in 2024, that number is now nearly 60 . Its projected to be 68 by the middle of this century. And if that trend continues, more than 80 , or four in five of us, will be living in towns or cities by 2080. That means therell be six times as many big cities with a population of more than a million people. But some regions
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I held him in the very highest regard because of what he gave to me. They gave me my england debut and set me on the road, and i will never forget that. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is the latest twist in Donald Trumps confrontation with the heads of americas Intelligence Agencies. Mr trump says the director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, called him last night to condemn a leaked report claiming the President Elect was vulnerable to blackmail by russia. But mr clapper has said hed made no judgment on whether the report was reliable and he rejected mr trumps suggestion that Us Intelligence was responsible for the leak. Our correspondent Christian Fraser has the latest. Eight days from now, donald trump goes into battle as the next commander in chief. But never before has an incoming president been warring on so many fronts. This morning, as is now the norm, he began the day with a tweaked in fa ct, began the day with a tweaked in fact, what mr clapper told reporters is that he