Follow wimbledon across the bbc, including Johanna Konta, who is for englands lionesses in lyon. Second upper one court. Bbc one, bbc two, the red button. 18 courts you they play the world champions the can choose from on the iplayer and usa tonight in france, aiming to get the bbc sport website. Bbc two from toa usa tonight in france, aiming to get to a womens World Cup Final for the very first time. 10 30am. Tonight, the big one, can england make history and reach their first World Cup Final against the usa . It kicks off at a table coverage starts from 7 30pm on bbc one. It is a very busy day, good morning and welcome wimbledon and the womens world cup to the bbc news at nine. And we will have updates on bbc news an investigation is under way throughout the day. After a stowaway whos believed to have fallen from a passenger plane bound for heathrow was found dead in a garden well as weve just been hearing, in south london. Tonight the lionesses take police say on the usa for a place
And the landlords offering accommodation in exchange for sex. Coming up in the sport later in the hour on bbc news. Hes looking good for another Premier League title. And Chelseas Ngolo Kante is also favourite for the pfa player of the year award. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. President trump has said relations between the us and russia may be at all time low, after moscow refused to withdraw support for syrias President Assad after last weeks chemical weapons attack. The us blamed the Syrian Government for the attack, and fired 59 Cruise Missiles at a Government Airbase in response. Russia has now vetoed a United Nations resolution demanding that syria cooperate with investigators. Keith doyle reports. What appear to be barrel bombs being dropped by syrian army helicopters. 0ther Unverified pictures are said to show rebel missiles hitting damascus. The Syrian Civil War is no less vicious and indiscriminate this week than last. Us and russia are on opposing sides i
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Other parts of it. But on top of ukraine, between ukraine and the baltic states, is the large and still quite soviet country of belarus. Belarus did become an independent country when the soviet union collapsed in 1991. They established a new form of government. They constituted themselves as the republic of belarus. They held an election for president of that republic for the first time in 1994. In that first election in 1994, they picked this guy, alexander lukashenko, to be their first ever president. Again, they picked him in 1994. He is still there today. I say that belarus is kind of soviet because belarus is often described as europes last dictatorship, and he is the dictator. But belarus is both effectively a dictatorship and also nominally its a republic. It is a place that holds elections. And those two things may seem contrary, that you would be a dictatorship but also one that holds elections. But in practice, those two things often come together. I mean if you think about
In that first election in 1994, they picked this guy, alexander lukashenko, to be their first ever president. Again, they picked him in 1994. He is still there today. I say that belarus is kind of soviet because belarus is often described as europes last dictatorship, and he is the dictator. But belarus is both effectively a dictatorship and also nominally its a republic. It is a place that holds elections. And those two things may seem contrary, that you would be a dictatorship but also one that holds elections. But in practice, those two things often come together. I mean if you think about it, right, basically by definition, if you are an authoritarian leader, if youre a dictator, you dont believe in like checks and balances in government, right . You dont believe in anybody else in government, anybody else in any position in your country being able to interfere with you just dictating what you want to happen and getting it. By definition, right . Authoritarian leaders and dictators