As another two brigades of Troops Head for the border. Ukraines president , Volodymyr Zelensky, has warned the United Nations delegates that russia is preparing a serious escalation of its war against his country. Polling stations have closed in Indian Administered Kashmir in the first elections to take place there in more than ten years. Ubas Crime Rate soars, fuelled by Gang Crime and drugs. Well have a Special Report from havana. And the Newjoker Movie divides critics as it heads to cinemas well be live from the Red Carpet ahead of the Uk Premiere as we have been hearing, one our main stories this hour the head of the israeli armed forces, herzi halevi, has said preparations are being made for a possible Ground Invasion of lebanon. Israel has been conducting extensive strikes across lebanon, hitting 280 targets according to the idf. Lebanons Health Ministry says 51 People Have been killed, and more than 200 wounded so far today. Earlier on wednesday, israel intercepted a ballistic m
Andrey kordochkin, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Its a great Honour And Privilege to be here. Well, its great to have you in the studio. Let me take you back to February 2022. Putin orders an all out invasion of ukraine. Within days, you, a priest in the russian Orthodox Church, choose to speak out against the invasion. When you did that, did you feel that this would be the end of your career in the russian Orthodox Church . I think that when the war has begun, very few of us could actually give a prediction of what is going to come through. So i think that many people would suggest that the war would be over in a very short period of time. So i dont think that any of us was acting out of any kind of prediction. And i think when i spoke out against the war, i dont think that i really felt any choice. I thought that it was a moral imperative on behalf of any christian or any sensible and reasonable person, to try to stop it, or at least not to be a part of what one may call a moraljus
Hello youre watching the context on bbc news. Coming up the uk Prime Minister will no longer accept donations for clothes after a row over accepting gifts. Party Conference Season is well under way here in the uk and Today Reform Leader Nigel Farage opened his Partys Conference in birmingham. He told Supporters Britain is broken and said this was the weekend his party would come of age. We do not need to change the mind of a single person living in this country. Because the Silent Majority is already with us on the key issues that we care about. We can win the next general election, just with the numbers of people that agree with our principles, that agree that family, that agree that community, that agree that country should be the things that absolutely everybody in british public life campaigns for because they are the most important things to all of us that live here. Applause the labour partys annual conference will also kick off this weekend but it comes in a week in which the P
And italy mourns the death of their icon of italia 90, Toto Schillaci. Also coming up on sportsday. Well hear from Harry Brook as he prepares to lead england for first time in the one Day Series against australia its been a great day for Skipper Ben Ainslie and his bid to win the Americas Cup with Ineos Brittania in barcelona there were winning starts for Aston Villa and Liverpool Yesterday in the Opening Round of Champions League fixtures, there are six more matches this evening, two more british sides in action, well get to Celtic Park in a moment, but lets head to the etihad where Manchester City take on inter milan, its a repeat of the final two seasons ago, Rodris Goal in istanbul seeing city becoming European Champions for the first time. Our Sports Correspodnent Natalie pirks is at the game for us, natalie, they are English And Italian Champions and getting a match like this in the first phase of the competition is just why uefa they shook the format up. Of course, over accusati
Through friday and in the weekend as an area of low pressure comes from the south it will introduce the threat of rain or thundery showers but it looks like scotland and Northern Ireland should keep the dry weather into the weekend. Into the weekend. And thats Bbc News at six. You can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. Now its time to join our colleagues for the news hello, and welcome to sportsday. Old foes in a New Look Champions League Liverpool open their campaign in italy against ac milan. The Champions League might be bigger, but what about Player Burn out . Manchester citys rodri says they could go on strike. In my humble opinion, i think theres much we have to take care of ourselves. Someone has to take care of ourselves. Glasgow gets the Go Ahead to host a scaled back 2026 commonwealth games. Also coming up on sportsday. Working his way back to the Top Anthonyjoshua tells us about his two yearjourney to set up another World Title Shot on Saturday Night. G