karin kneissl, the former austrian foreign minister who famously danced with putin at her own wedding in 2018. now, she lives in exile, forced out of austria, she says, by death threats. what does her story say about vienna s close ties to moscow and the impact of austria s neutrality? karin kneissl, in northern lebanon, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for your invitation, mr sackur. well, it s a pleasure to have you on the show. i think we have to start with this question about your location. you were a senior member of the austrian diplomatic political elite, until recently. now, you ve left your home country and you re in exile in lebanon. just explain to me why. well, when our government literally imploded in 2019, all i wanted was to continue my academic work and publishing, but i had to find out that there was not a single contract. furthermore, a lot of harassment, also the death threats. but the bigger problem, honestly, was this de facto prohibition to work,
economic direction, the biggest tax cuts and a half a century in a bid to kickstart growth. and the first woman to win back the booker prize twice, the celebrated author dame hilary mantell dies at the age of 70. welcome to bbc news. the g7, the group of seven wealthiest nations, have condemned the referendums being held in parts of ukraine to decide whether they want to join russia. it added the votes, which are being organised by moscow backed officials, are a breach of the united nations charter. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson, in the south, and cover around 15 per cent of ukraine s territory. voting is expected to run until tuesday, and the result seems almost certain to go in moscow s favour. these pictures, filmed in russian occupied donetsk, show representatives taking polling cards to people in their own homes. here, at least, it is not a secret ballot. m
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now on bbc news, it s time for the media show. hello. the queen s funeral was the combination of days of coverage cummination of days of coverage across the british media. the new culture secretary called the bbc s efforts phenomenal and spot on . so, did the media get the tone right? were a range of views about the monarchy represented? and amid the pageantry and commentary, was there room forjournalism? i m joined by marcus ryder, who s head of external consultancies in the lenny henry centre for media diversity, baroness stowell, who s conservative chair of the house of lords communication and digital select committee, lord vaizey, a former culture secretary who was in the david cameron government at the time of the 2012 olympics, emily bell, professor of professional practice at the columbia university and graduate school ofjournalism, and stefanie bolzen is the uk correspondent of germany s die welt newspaper. welcome to you all, thank you so much for coming on the me
Through to bring aid and that all Water Supplies needed to be restored to gaza where physically possible. He also added that all sides should meet the sanctity of, importance of reaffirming support for a two state solution, it is a moment for care and caution, but also for moral clarity and a moment for humanity to win out against the scourge of terrorism and break the cycle of atrocity, that in words of the Prime Minister has written for a sunday newspaper. The un says its negotiating for a second aid convoy of 20 to 30 trucks to be allowed into gaza on sunday, earlier, 20 trucks crossed into the strip from egypt the first since israel began its total siege of gaza 12 days ago. A585 people have been killed there in the last two weeks according to the hamas run Gaza Health Ministry more than 1,700 of them children. And israel says it is now preparing to step up its attacks on gaza to increase the pressure on hamas. The convoy which entered gaza earlier was carrying food, water and medi