Stop welcome to Bbc News now, three hours welcome to Bbc News now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. Ukraines President Zelensky says that a russian Missile Strike has killed more than 41 people. It happened in Poltava a city in the east of ukraine. President zelensky said that more than 180 people were wounded. Speaking in the last hour, he said it was a very difficult day for ukraine. The ukrainian Defence Ministry called it a barbaric strike against an educational establishment. This is what President Zelensky said a short while ago. Translation i have received preliminary l reports on the russian attack on Poltava. According to the information available now, two ballistic missiles hit the territory of an educational institution and a neighbouring hospital. One of the buildings in the institute of communications was partially destroyed. People were trapped under the rubble. Many of them were rescued. More than 180 people were injured. Unfortunately, there ar
From home plus flip flop the u. S. President walks back to his countrys Coronavirus Task force just a day after signaling that the task forces days were numbered also on the show on the frontlines of the pandemic and discrimination doctors and nurses in the colombian capital are already risking their lives to save. Theyre facing a new challenge of abuse and discrimination. Plus more than 5 years after a german wings pilot killed 150 people by crashing his plane in the alps the victims families are now heading to court they say move. Is to blank. Our viewers on p. B. S. And. United states and all around the world welcome back in business with the option to shut down again today german chancellor Angela Merkel in else that germany will ease some of its coronavirus measures in the coming weeks but she warned that the steps must be taking gradually and with caution lets take a closer look now at some of the challenges that are confronting germany states as they try to manage a reopening of
Welcome to new perspectives and sources on the elaine massacre of 1919. The panel is devoted to advancing our understanding of the horrific series of events that began just over 100 years ago in which africanamericans were hunted down by a paranoid and enraged crowd of whites inside delta arkansas. I want to recognize first the work guy lancaster did in helping to organize this panel. Unfortunately he had to change his plans to join us and participate. All three of our scholars here on this panel are contributors to a book edited by guy lancaster and we are shamelessly plugging that right here. The the elaine massacre and arkansas a century of atrocity and resistance, 1819 to 1919. Full disclosure, im in there too. But this is not about me. I want to introduce all three of our panelists first, and they will each present for about 20, 25 minutes. And after that i will spend just a few minutes offering some thoughts designed to generate discussion. And then i will get out of the way and
price for the defence of bakhmut. and tributes continue to pour in following the death of the queen of rock and roll tina turner at 83 years old. hello. we start here in the uk, where new figures show net migration the difference between the number of people coming to live in the uk and the number leaving hit a record high in 2022. it rose to 606,000 last year, driven by people from non eu countries arriving for work and study after the pandemic. that s up from 488,000 in 2021. the figure includes people coming to the uk under resettlement schemes from both ukraine and hong kong, with many more visas being issued following a political crackdown in the former british colony. britain has long been a popular destination for migrants from nigeria. earlier i spoke to the bbc s mayenijones who is in lagos and also our correspondent in hong kong martin yip. first, a little bit on the figures. among those 606,000 people who moved to the uk in the past year. hong kongers t
Nights cowboys raiders game used a folded piece of paper to measure for a dallas first down. The raiders coach seen saying no way afterwards. Dallas went on to quick what was the winning field goal in a 2017 victory. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, december 18th. From abc news, this is world news now. Couple of weird calls in the sunday games yesterday, but uh, it is how it is. A lot on the line right now, too. Exactly. We begin this half hour with the Third Largest wildfire in california history. Some multimillion dollar homes in the Santa Barbara community of montecito have been leveled. One firefighter recorded flames and smoke surrounding his truck. We get more from abcs marci gonzalez. Reporter fire crews waging an allout war against this massive, unrelenting wildfire. Crews climbing the california hills with chain saws, axes and shovels, desperately trying to get the upper hand. The inferno now burning for two weeks. The wall ott smoke at one point so thick it n