E. U. Finance ministers meet to decide. You can receive calls on your watch. And watch this. Apple decides the time is right to move in to wearable technology. Ill have al your sport including cyclings governing body admits. Hello there, thank you for joining us. Troops from chad and niger have made their first gains since launching their joint offensive at the weekend to fight boko haram. They have helped recapture towns. 10 chadian soldiers died and up to 200 of boko harams fighters are said to have been killed. Niger and chads military vehicles were said to be seen crossing the border in to borneo state on saturday. And the african region created a force of 8,000 troops. Ahmad idris reports from abuja. Reporter the recapture say huge victory for Regional Forces especially chad and niger. Countrys going uhhuh ram recently targed. So far the Coalition Forces have reclaimed more than 30 towns and villages from the boko haram. For chad, niner and cameroon defeating boko haram is crucial
This is the latest offensive by countries inside nigeria. On friday a Regional Force, 8,000 troops, was approved. We have our correspondent in the nigeria capital abuja. The fight against boko haram has taken a few urgency. The objective is to push the fighters into a corner ahead of the onslaught. So far many towns have been freed from boko haram. For chad, niger and cameroon defeat from boko haram is crucial. 5 years of violence, and it is the biggest economy. If group, if unchecked, will expand their area of control and become a bigger area. If nigeria troops won, they would crush the area in five years. We are adequately equipped. We have taken delivery of the game changes, and a promise and letter by the president himself, we have taken delivery of new equipment, which is what you are seeing behind me there, and we can use them against boko haram. Before the weapons, it was a defensive operation. Now we are on the offensive. The military asked for six weeks to pave way for the ele
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are olivia utley, deputy leader writer for the sun, and broadcaster and authorjohn kampfner. Welcome back both of you. Lets look at some of the other papers that have already come in. Lets start with the financial times. It carries a picture of one of the thousands injured in that massive explosion in beirut. But its main story is microsofts bid for the chinese social media app, tiktok. The guardian has a picture of the huge blast as it ripped through the lebanese capital. Ripping through the port area as well as the rest of the capital. But the newspapers lead story is a warning from the uk labour leader, sir keir starmer, about a long winter unless Virus Testing is improved. The daily mail leads with a warning from doctors, who say the lockdown has taken a huge toll on britains wider health. The daily mirror reports that three teenagers jailed for killing a police officer, pc andrew harpe
For the past two weeks. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. The chief executive of an nhs, at the centre of concerns over the preventable deaths of babies has played down the scale of the failings. The media watchdog ofcom is to be given new powers, to force social media firms to remove harmful content. Bernie bernie in the us, the veteran left wing senator Bernie Sanders narrowly wins the New Hampshire primary, a key stage of the contest to choose the democrats president ial candidate. And later in the hour, well talk to the photographer who snapped the Award Winning image of two mice fighting over food, at a london tube station. Its five oclock. Our main story is that the british businessman, at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak in the uk, has been given the all clear, and released from hospital. Steve walsh, whos 53, contracted the virus, on a trip to singapore, and passed it on to five other britons, at a ski region in france. Doctors say mr walsh is no longer contagious,
union bank has put its global expertise to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you?ç and now bbc world news. opposition forces in libya are facing increasingly serious resistance as government forces retake the town of bin jawad. colonel qaddafi allows a u.n. team to assess the scale of humanitarian needs and denies many have died. on both sides, the army and police, and on the other side the rebels, there have been at most a hundred people killed. the former french president, jacques chirac, goes on trials he misused public funds while mayor of paris. welcome to bbc world news. i m geeta guru-murthy. also in this program the u.s. defense secretary, robert gates, makes an unscheduled vs@t to afghanistan amid renewed tension of civilian casualties. and daily life with india s maoist rebels, rare access to the group described as the country s biggest security threat. it s been confirmed the central libyan town of bin jawad has been retain b