policy making principle putting business first, not military power well, suddenly it looked like weakness. chancellor olaf scholz promised dramatic change. my guest is state secretary for economic cooperation niels annen. so, has germany got a new strategic vision? niels annen, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure. well, it s great to be here. let s start with the war in ukraine. i think there s no doubt that putin s invasion of ukraine shocked germany. would it be fair to say it has also destabilised germany? no, i don t think so. but it certainly shocked germany because a lot of our economic model was based on the assumption that we would continue using cheap russian natural gas. and it was also based in a kind of historic, should i say, historic experience that although russia was a competitor and an enemy in the cold war, it was always also, in economic terms, a quite reliable partner. and i think that was somehow, you know, seen as a constant policy. and we did n
it s seven in the morning in singapore, and one in the morning in sudan where the rescue operation to bring british nationals out of the country has made progress the latest official figure is that 536 people have been rescued so far. tens of thousands of sudanese and foreign nationals have left sudan in the past week, fleeing the violence that s erupted between two military factions. we ll have a report by our special correspondent lucy manning on those arriving back in the uk, but we start with this report from cyprus, and our correspondent there nick beake. finally, an escape for britons who ve been stranded in sudan. but as the raf carries out more evacuations, there are some concerns the airfield in the capital, khartoum, is now breaking up with hundreds of uk citizens still stuck in the devastation inflicted by the feud between top generals. today, though, flights out have been reaching cyprus, which is halfway home. and this is how it feels to have escaped. here in c
welcome to the programme, i am lewis vaughanjones. ukraine says it had nothing to do with an alleged drone attack on the kremlin which russia has called an attempt to assassinate president putin. what do we know about the alleged incident? the bbc has verified this video. it shows the drone flying in on the left hand side, and then this and speaking at a news conference in helsinki, finland, president volodymyr zelensky said that we don t attack putin or moscow, we fight on our territory. ukraine says that russia is using this accusation as cover to launch an attack. let s run through what we know, with daniel palumbo. we have already seen similar events in the region of the capital to this, but never so close to the city centre. this is after the first screenshot that we have seen, picturing the explosion. this building is in the city centre, this is moscow but if we zoom and really closely, we will be able to spot red square just here, closely, we will be able to spot red s
it s revealed that almost 400 hotels across the uk are now being used to house asylum seekers at a cost of £6 million a day. and why something fishy has been going on after the body of a rare shark was discovered on a beach in hampshire. and coming up on the bbc news channel. facing a length ban aleksandar mitrovic s moment of madness means he could be out for a significant part of fulham s season. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. for the increasingly isolated russian leader vladimir putin, it is a hugely significant moment the chinese leader xijinping has travelled to moscow to meet him. president xi says today s state visit will give new momentum for relations between the two superpowers. mr xi will be the first foreign leader to shake vladimir putin s hand since an international arrest warrant was issued for the russian president on war crimes charges. 0ur russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports from moscow. when xi jinping arrived you could tell
believe it was an assassination attempt on president putin. let s take you straight to these videos claiming to show the attack. this is the moment of the explosion coming up the moment of the explosion coming up now. there it is. that is circulating on social media. it appears to be a drone flying in from the left hand side before that explosion. we can t be sure of course. this is unverified footage at the moment. here is the drum from another angle, again not verified. shortly you will see the smoke coming up. according to our teams the videos do appear to be taken at the videos do appear to be taken at the time and location claimed. ukraine has denied carrying out any attack and claims russia is using this accusation as a cover to launch an attack. earlier i spoke to wil vernon in our moscow bureau and i were russia editor at bbc monitoring. started by asking will what exactly the russian authorities have said. the what exactly the russian authorities have said. , ., ., h