retains his four unified world titles with a win over britian s anthonyjoshua, that he dedicated to the ukrainian armed forces. now on bbc news, it s time for dateline london. hello, and welcome to the programme where british journalists debate the week s news with the correspondents who write, blog, podcast and broadcast from the dateline: london. living with double digit inflation is an unwelcome, if familiar, experience in many countries. turkey, argentina, zimbabwe and iran started 2022 under that yoke. for the british, it had been a distant memory, but not any more. in the united states, presidentjoe biden signed into law the optimistically titled inflation reduction act. would it were that simple. another bad memory from the 1980s, the threat to kill the author sir salman rushdie, came close to being fulfilled. liberals are relieved he survived, but have they helped to fuel intolerance? to discuss all that, in the studio are maria margaronis, a documentary maker who, am
and the secret hidden in china s rivers, finally exposed after a long drought. we begin with some news which has been breaking out of somalia over the last couple of hours, where security forces say they ve ended a siege that had lasted over 30 hours at the hayat hotel in the capital, mogadishu, where islamist gunmen were reported to be holding hostages. there s been no independent verification, and no official statement from the somali government. the militant group, al shabaab, claimed responsibility. our reporter emily brown has been following the story and joins me now. what is the latest? we know this attack what is the latest? we know this attack began what is the latest? we know this attack began on - what is the latest? we know this attack began on friday l this attack began on friday evening, when the al shabaab group detonated two bombs outside the hyatt hotel in the capital. hayat. dozens of people were evacuated from the building, said to be popular with th