macroeconomics this is bbc news. the headlines: prince harry wins his phone hacking case and is awarded £140,000 in damages. he describes it as a great day for truth . what now for ukraine after hungary s prime minister blocks a $55 billion eu aid package and threatens to pull the handbrake on future payments. a un report says the taliban is sending female abuse survivors to prison because shelters have closed. let s turn now to the war in ukraine because hungary has blocked more than $50 billion in eu aid for ukraine, hours after agreement was reached on starting membership talks with kyiv. after late night negotiations, the hungarian prime minister victor orban posted on social media: he then left for the night. speaking to reporters, charles michel the president of the european council focused instead on what he saw as a positive the opening of those membership talks with both ukraine and moldova. he added that the eu would attempt to reach a unanimous
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent subordinates scrambling to explain their failure to protect the Crimea bridge from Ukraine’s forces, which policymakers in Kyiv celebrated as “a blow” to the strategic and symbolic span linking Russia's mainland to the occupied Ukrainian peninsula.
According to numerous reports, the sale of oil to India and China may be helping Russia stay afloat even as powers like the United States and the European Union work to shrink Moscow’s oil revenues