More on our website, bbc. Co. Uk news, and the news app. Now on bbc news, live to singapore for Asia Business report. Caught up in the hong kong protests, american Gaming Company Activision Blizzard reports its results after its controversial ban on players. The economic benefits of coffee beans. We report on a local community in sumatra. It is thursday. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. Glad you could join us for another action packed edition of Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. Lets begin with us Gaming Company Activision Blizzard, which reports its latest numbers later today. You might remember the firm for suspending the accounts of four players after they openly supported the hong kong protests. Almost immediately, the hashtag boycottblizza rd immediately, the hashtag boycottblizza rd started trending immediately, the hashtag boycottblizzard started trending on twitter, prompting some players to stop playing. The firms leader says they will stick with their band, but they will
Good morning. It is going to be fairly cloudy and wet today across the central swathes of the uk. To the central swathes of the uk. To the south of that mostly dry and mild. In the north, blustery showers with gales in north west scotland. Details later. Good morning. Its wednesday, 13th march. Rishi sunak is facing calls to hand back millions of pounds donated to the Conservative Party by a businessman accused of making racist comments about the mp, diane abbott. Tech boss frank hester is reported to have said ms abbott made him want to hate all black women, and that she should be shot. The Prime Minister called the comments racist and wrong. Our Political Correspondent Hannah Miller has more. Hello, rishi. How are you . Very nice to see you. When rishi sunak made this visit to a mill near leeds in november, his Helicopter Ride had been provided by one of his partys biggest donors, frank hester, Who Last Year donated £10 million to the Conservative Party, now alleged to have made com
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Hello, im samantha simmonds. The International Red cross says its managed to deliver 70 tonnes of relief aid to the disputed enclave Nagorno Karabakh for the First Time Since azerbaijan captured the territory in a lightning operation five days ago. Tens of thousands of armenians have sought refuge in the main city stepanakert, where food and medicine are running low, and power cuts are frequent. Families remain stranded in the local airport, where russian peacekeepers are based. They are sleeping on the ground, cooking food on fire and not having an access to clean water. Moscow said there were over 2,000 people, including 1,000 children, sheltering at the peacekeepers base camp. I was joined earlier by our correspondent Rayhan Demytrie who gave me the latest. The political situation is that Karabakh Armenians, they surrendered to azerbaijan. They signed this Ceasefire Agreement on wednesday. And now whats happening is the process of disarmament, because that was part of the Ceasefire
Translation the collective west has a calling card and its long been to reject the principle of equality and their Total Inability to reach agreement. Being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments, written ones and legally binding ones and then theyjust dont fulfil them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this first hand. Earlier i spoke to phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university. He told me there was a lot missing from mr lavrov s address. It was a speech that you would say really comes from the Point Of View of weakness on ukraine, that he couldnt even mention the ukraine war, that there was no discussion of russias right to invade ukraine, of russias annexation of ukraine, the parts of ukraine. So, in that sense, it was really running away from the story of the moment which is th