and we have talked with you a lot about the energy impact of the war in ukraine on western europe but china also buys some russian energy, has that come up? russia wants to sell more of its energy. because russia is trying to pivot from the west to the east, it sees the market in the east, the energy market is very attractive. it wants to sell as much gas and oil as it can. the problem that russia has is it is not easy to quickly reorient its energy infrastructure. all of the pipelines that have been built over decades have basically been built going west. so it will take a lot of money and a lot of time and energy to build more pipelines going to china, for example. there is one gas pipeline that already exists to china, there is talk of building another one via mongolia. but this will take a long time. there are a lot of experts here that think despite moscow being very bullish and are saying, well, if we are suffering from all of these western sanctions, we will just sell
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new york s legendary studio 5a nightclub dies by assisted suicide in switzerland. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start in sri lanka, where president gotabaya has not honoured his promise to resign. he flew to the maldives about 2k hours ago. but in a public letter, he said he was appointing the prime minister to be the acting head of state, while he was absent. that s led to anger among protesters, who wanted both men to quit. meanwhile a curfew is in force. from colombo, our south asia correspondent rajini vaidya nathan reports. their target heavily guarded. their mood determined. as news spread that prime minister ranil wickremesinghe had just been made acting president, crowds gathered in front of his office, one of the few government buildings not yet occupied by protesters. there is an intense here in colombo. the protesters are here along this avenue, and on the other side you can see the security forces who are guarding this office, a
there is worse to come. and more bad news for travellers as the rmt union announces three days of national strike action on the railways later this month. i m at king s cross and i ll be looking at what that s going to mean. is she coming in today? could you give her a call and see if she s on her way? trying to track down the children still missing from schools after the pandemic a bbc investigation reveals more and more parents are being fined. minimum pricing was meant to help reduce alcohol consumption in scotland, but a new report says the heaviest drinkers are cutting back on other essentials instead. a dog trainer, a tech worker and a farmer when they re at home, but now these three british volunteers are in ukraine helping to rescue the helpless. and coming up on the bbc news channel: two time major winner dustinjohnson resigns from the pga tour in order to play in the new saudi backed liv invitational series. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a day a
a dog trainer, a tech worker and a farmer when they re at home, but now these three british volunteers are in ukraine helping to rescue the helpless. tens of thousands of rail workers will stage three days of national rail strikes later this month, the rmt union has announced. it ll be the largest outbreak of industrial action in the industry in a generation and will shut down the entire rail network in england. with all the details i m joined by our correspondent, jon donnison. talk to us first of all about when this is going to happen. we know there are three days. this is going to happen. we know there are three days. promises to be hu:el there are three days. promises to be hugely disruptive. there are three days. promises to be hugely disruptive. 50,000 there are three days. promises to be hugely disruptive. 50,000 workers l there are three days. promises to be| hugely disruptive. 50,000 workers in total across 13 different train operating countries and the london u