good evening and welcome to the bbc news at ten. moscow has been targeted by multiple drones in the biggest such attack since the invasion of ukraine. russian officials said eight had reached the capital causing some damage, but that most had been shot down. ukraine has denied direct involvement. president vladimir putin said the drones were aimed at civilian targets and that russia reserves the right to take the harshest possible measures against kyiv. our russia editor steve rosenberg heard the explosions this morning, and sent this report. loud blast russian television says this is the moment that moscow came under attack. the bbc has not independently verified the images russian tv showed. but from early morning, people in and around the russian capital did report hearing explosions. i heard them, too. at home, my windows shook from the force of the blasts. russia s defence ministry accused ukraine of carrying out the attack but said that russia s military had downed all
hello and welcome to the programme, i m lewis vaughan jones. starting with the latest developments from sudan. they developments from sudan. they developments from sudan. are centrin- around international they are centring around international efforts to get their citizens international efforts to get their citizens of the country from top from top the latest from france, they have undergone and i quote a rapid evacuation operation to get rid of their citizens. and earlier we heard from america, they had done the same, this is a statement from presidentjoe biden, saying, on my orders, the united states military conducted an operation to extract us government personnel from khartoum. this is saudi arabia in the port ofjeddah and we understand around 150 people have been evacuated to safety, mostly citizens of gulf countries. the canadian government has urged remaining canadian city scenes in sedan to shelter in a safe place. in khartoum, air strikes and shelling have been g
the nation s favourite game. tom symonds, bbc news. nato is sending another 700 troops to northern kosovo, after violent clashes followed the election of ethnic albanian mayors in predominately serbian areas. about 50 protestors and 30 peacekeepers were injured in the clashes. it s 15 years since kosovo seceded from serbia, but most ethnic serbs have never accepted the country s independence. let s speak to our correspondent in the balkans, guy delauney. guy, what s sparked all this? well, this all goes back to last month the s botched elections, the botched mayoral elections in majority serb of northern kosovo. ethnic serb parties staged a boycott, and that resulted in extremely low turnout, just 3.5%. that meant that ethnic albanian candidates elected as mayor in four
are a majority of serbs would get a limited degree of autonomy, but that has never been implemented and this boycott today is primarily all about that. we also saw last month yet another agreement between the leaders of serbia and kosovo, one of the clauses of which says the two sides will implement all previously agreed agreements and, clearly, this is an extension of that, but frankly, that agreement last month never looked particularly solid and i think we are finding out how solid it is today. fascinating. so if no one turns out, as you suggest, what happens then? we will have a very bizarre situation where the majority serb parts of kosovo will, in essence, have elected ethnic albanian mayors and other municipal officials, and this is clearly an untenable situation, so it s going to be quite difficult in the days and weeks ahead. there will be some very uncomfortable discussions about this