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officials are calling this an act of terror. what do you make no just from the details act of terror. what do you make no just from the details we have and that these are taxpayer in russia? obviously there is a taxpayer in russia? obviously there is a lot taxpayer in russia? obviously there is a lot we taxpayer in russia? obviously there is a lot we do taxpayer in russia? obviously there is a lot we do not - taxpayer in russia? obviously there is a lot we do not know, but it fits a pattern of attacks we have seen, including last year by jihadists attacks we have seen, including last year byjihadists linked to the islamic state, which is probably the islamic state khorasan, which is in central asia, and has carried out attacks in moscow and this attacks in moscow and this attack is close to their home territory. attack is close to their home territo . ~ attack is close to their home territory- territory. we know the sites that are targeted, territory. we know the s
scotland didn t manage a single shots until shay adams fired shot until shay adams fired off target in the 53rd minutes. off target in the 53rd minutes. hungary forward barnabas varga then needed medical treatment after he suffered an injury, defending a free kick. he was moved onto a stretcher and taken to hospital in a stable condition. as play resumed, scotland substitute stuart armstrong was sent tumbling by orban, but no penalty was given. the urgency and desperation of both sides saw the game open up. kevin sorbo could have been forgiven kevin sorbot could have been forgiven for thinking he d wasted the last chance, but with ten minutes added on, it wasn t to be the final opportunity. scotland s grant hanley came close. dreams were fading and they were extinguished for scotland in the 100th minute of the game, with seibert snatching victory for hungary. with sorbot snatching victory for hungary. they must wait to find out if the three points will be enough to see them t
welcome to hardtalk. thank you. the recent indian election, it was a result which nobody really expected. your party, the congress party, did better than the polls had suggested it would. many in your party expressed contentment, evenjoy. and yet you still lost. isn t that the key point? that is true. but i think the expectation from the ruling dispensation, a lot of the popular mainstream media was that the propaganda will suffice and people will give a bigger majority to the ruling party. what really happened was, this was a vote by the people to check what we thought were excesses by the government, and the congress party and our allies together have done remarkably well, compared to last time. if you look at the numbers, the ruling party has 290 odd mps and we have 240 odd. so it s not that much of a gap. but more than that, it shows the robustness of our democracy, and the way people have voted is that issues that are important to the people is what finally matters. sure
this time last year, we were seeing clear signs that ukraine s much heralded summer offensive wasn t doing very well. russia had had plenty of time to prepare its defences and ukraine simply couldn t break through them. the next phase, inevitably, would be a russian spring offensive, after the snow and mud of the winter gave way to firmer ground under the tracks and wheels of the tanks and armoured personnel carriers. ukraine s supporters around the world were nervous. might this be the moment when russia came crashing back, recapturing the ground it had lost and even maybe threatening kyiv, the ukrainian capital? the delays in getting the big us support package through seemed to make things much worse. and yet it hasn t happened. russia has made some gains, admittedly, but there s been no actual breakthrough. the bbc ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse, is back in london briefly, and i asked him for his view of what was happening. after ukraine weathered that initialstor