The guided bombs that moscow used to attack kharkiv, they are not as precise as ballistic rockets or cruise missiles. Their main purpose, their main aim is to cause devastation and this is exactly what the kremlin wants to achieve, kyiv says. Therefore they asked their partners to provide them with long range weapons and president zelensky has already responded to this attack by once again calling on his partners to allow them to use these weapons to hit targets deep inside russia. Ukraine currently cannot use weapons provided, such as storm shadows and other missiles, to hit deep inside russia and the ukrainian partners say that if they allow them to do so, it will only escalate the war. However, the ukrainian authorities say that these weapons will be used only to hit military targets such as airfields from where russian bombers take off and attack ukrainian cities. On friday, ukraine s president zelensky fired the head of the ukrainian air force, mykola oleshchuk, days after an f 16
On the app. So it was kind of a laundry list of issues. More broadly, mike, were you surprised that this happened in france? so, this is. . . One of the fascinating aspects of this case is, you know, it s a big deal in any sort of country at this point, i believe, to really take under arrest the ceo of a major tech company, especially one used by almost a billion people, that telegram is. I think the distinction that s important here is that the arrest was made not under eu sort of broader laws, but specifically under french sort ofjurisdiction. And i also think that other tech ceos are looking at that and what that means for travel across different countries, not. . . I think durov is a different case because of how uncooperative he has been with different countries over the years but it s something to look at. Related to that, my bbc news colleague joe tidy has been reporting in the last few hours that telegram refuses to join international programmes aimed at detecting and removin
Been arrested close to paris and we re going to explore the implications notjust for him and for telegram, but for many of the biggest tech platforms in the world. To do that, let s begin with mike isaac, tech correspondent for the new york times, who s in san francisco. We didn t quite know a lot from the very beginning. We understood that durov was detained, and it was pretty clandestine in the beginning. Then later, the french prosecutors let out a few different reasons. According to a sort of brief statement, it was facilitating child pornography, human trafficking, drug trafficking, a sort of vague reference to encryption issues on the app. So it was kind of a laundry list of issues. More broadly, mike, were you surprised that this happened in france? so, this is. . . One of the fascinating aspects of this case is, you know, it s a big deal in any sort of country at this point, i believe, to really take under arrest the ceo of a major tech company, especially one used by almost
This is bbc news. We ll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. Hi, i m ros atkins with this week s edition of the media show. We re going to talk about the messaging app telegram after its founder was arrested close to paris. We ll also bejoined by the editor of the satirical website in the us, the onion, which is relaunching its print edition. And we ll hear about a blockbuster game which has been made in china. Let s start by talking about the messaging app telegram, because its founder and its ceo, pavel durov, has been arrested close to paris and we re going to explore the implications notjust for him and for telegram, but for many of the biggest tech platforms in the world. To do that, let s begin with mike isaac, tech correspondent for the new york times, who s in san francisco. We didn t quite know a lot from the very beginning. We understood that durov was detained, and it was pretty clandestine in the beginning. Then later,
The core rate, stripping out those volatile elements such as fuel and rents, fell to 3. 8 from 3. 9 injanuary, but that was still higher than the 3. 7 expected. This latest data suggests there is still some stickiness with inflation that will be scrutinised by the Federal Reserve as it weighs up a highly anticipated Interest Rate cut injune. Lets head over to new york and speak to our north America Business correspondent michelle fleury. Not michelle fleury. A huge rise but not heading in the not a huge rise but not heading in the right direction . The right direction . People were hoinu to the right direction . People were heping to see the right direction . People were hoping to see more the right direction . People were hoping to see more evidence hoping to see more evidence that prices were cooling and moving in the direction they wanted, this probably goes in the negative column, inflation is a bit hotter than people would like to see, and it does not necessarily mean a different