hello, i m lucy hockings. russia has blamed the united states for wednesday s alleged drone attack on the kremlin. moscow initially blamed kyiv directly, but the kremlin spokesman, dmitry peskov, has now told reporters that the decision to attack was made in washington, with kyiv executing it on us orders. he gave no evidence. kyiv has denied any involvement, saying it s focused on defending its own territory. the foreign ministry in moscow has separately accused ukraine of launching an unprecedented wave of sabotage attacks against russia. in the hague, president volodymyr zelensky has called for a fully fledged tribunal to hold russia accountable for its war of aggression against ukraine. he made the comments in a speech after visiting the international criminal court. it has symbolic importance, coming less than two months after the icc issued arrest warrants for vladimir putin on war crimes charges. let s listen to what he said at the hague. lasting peace after victory is
on all the preperation and plans for the day. hello, i m lukwesa burak. ukraine s president zelensky is visiting the hague where he s just given an impassioned speech, calling for president putin to be sentenced for his criminal actions over the invasion of ukraine. earlier, he visited the international criminal court in the hague for talks with court officials. it has symbolic importance, coming less than two months after the icc issued arrest warrants for vladimir putin on war crimes charges. before we listen in to what he had to say i m just going to show you the residence of the dutch minister, mark rutte, and we also heard from the deputy prime minister speaking earlier, introducing president zelensky. also the minister of foreign affairs. mr zelensky has been speaking to a number of key officials while he is at the hague, both within the icc and also dutch ministers. this is margretheofficial residence you can see here. mark bridger. these visits will continue thro
the international monetary fund has released it s latest economic outlook, and it s grim reading for the uk. forecasts for growth this year have been revised upwards slightly for most major economies, with even russia growing at a faster pace than the uk according to the imf. the stronger performance for most is down to the reopening of china and more resilient labour markets, household spending and business investment. michelle fleury spoke to their chief economist to national monetary fund is sounding a little less gloomy thanit sounding a little less gloomy than it did a view months ago stopping the global lender points to china s recently opening and strong spending by consumers as the reason for its improved global growth forecast at the imf said in its world economic outlook that the cost of living crisis was continuing to bite in most economies with the fund s chief economist telling me the priority now is on reducing inflation in the months to come. on reducing infla
many bird colonies in the uk. we ve been given special access to the islands to see the scale of the outbreak. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore, ”pm in london and five in the evening in chicago, where police are still searching for the gunman who killed six people at a fourth ofjuly parade. the independence day event had barely begun at highland park some 50 kilometres north of chicago, when a volley of shots rang out. police say they ve found a gun, but not the shooter himself. this report from our correspondent nomia iqbal. the independence day parade had just started. americans in this wealthy chicago suburb were out in the sunshine, celebrating the day their country became an independent nation. gunshot are you kidding me right now? ten minutes in, shots rang out. let s go! there was confusion and panic. people moved quickly for safety. stay on the side. i remember hearing shootings, going, like, ts