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that year, theodore roosevelt was us president and edward vii was king of the united kingdom. tanaka was married at 19 and had four children. she survived cancer, two world wars, the 1918 spanish flu and, of course, the covid 19 pandemic. with her death, the world s oldest person is now lucile randon, a 118 year old french nun. before she died kane tanaka shared her secret to a long life. she said she was getting up at 6:00am, spending afternoons studying maths, and keeping busy. she only stopped working at the family shop age 103. japan has the oldest population in the world. diet, healthcare and the fact that many older people continue to work into their latter years, to work into their later years, is said to be the reason behind their long lives. emily brown, bbc news.
welcome to bbc news. i m nancy kacungira. our top stories: the world s richest man, elon musk, buys twitter for $41; billion. but what does he plan to do with it? russia s foreign minister says there s a danger the war in ukraine could lead to a third world war, as many are forced to live underground, desperate for the war to end. translation: everybody is scared. now we are even afraid of silence. you never know what will happen next. a turkish court has sentenced civil rights activist osman kavala to life in prison without parole on charges of attempting to overthrow the government over the 2013 gezi park protests. beijing expands its mass covid testing to more districts,
the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov, says nato is in effect engaging in a proxy war with russia, and that weapons delivered to ukraine from the west would be what he called legitimate targets. the authorities in beijing have announced they re expanding a mass covid testing campaign to another 10 districts, after a sharp rise in cases in china s capital. people have been stocking up on food, as fears grow that the city could be locked down. millions of residents in shanghai are still in the middle of a lockdown that s lasted for more than a month. earlier i spoke to christian petersen clausen, a documentary filmmaker living in shanghai. he has been locked down since 1st april. it s been (speaks indistinctly), quite frankly, mainly because of the length of the lockdown. it was initially announced
it was seven o clock - in the morning on the day when power began to pass from the minority to the majority. - when africa, after 300 years, reclaimed its last white colony. - this is bbc news, the latest headlines: elon musk, is set to buy twitter in a joint statement, the two sides said they wanted to make the social media platform better than ever. the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov, says nato is in effect engaging in a proxy war with russia, and that weapons delivered to ukraine from the west would be what he called legitimate targets. the authorities in beijing have announced they re expanding a mass covid testing campaign to another ten districts after a sharp rise in cases in china s capital. people have been stocking up on food, as fears grow that the city could be locked down. millions of residents in shanghai are still in the middle of a lockdown that s lasted for more than a month.