Spending, spending on things like pensions. This is all part of his big radical plan to try to get inflation and debt in the country. He has started to get inflation down, it is still the highest in the world, but it has come at a cost. A lot of people i spoke to in argentina said they were struggling as a result of high prices at a time when support for them or their pensions or salaries were not keeping up with inflation. When i put that to him he said it was false, said that the Political Class instead were playing and he also claimed that the reason people might think they were paying was due to what he described as the mass media, calling some journalist serial liars. I asked calling some journalist serial liars. Iasked him if calling some journalist serial liars. I asked him if that was the case given that the information that most people have access to as the prices they see on the shelves. Translation do you know how many goods assets exist within an economy . So you dont do ec
This was rafah today, after 15 children from one family were killed in an airstrike. Translation show me one man among them. L theyre all children and women. You can see my identity is completely erased with the deaths of my wife and children. A pregnant woman was among the dead. Her Baby Daughter was saved in an emergency operation. A child born to a mother she will never know. There is the story of everyday death, and the story of what follows for the families caught in the shadows of death. Nawaras husband, abdulrahman, was one of more than 70 civilians killed in an israeli raid to rescue hostages in february. These were the couples children in the aftermath of their fathers death. We went back to see nawara, now eight months pregnant with her dead husbands child, and in grief, awaiting the arrival of a new life. Nawaras words the elegy of a wife and mother for all thats been lost. In central gaza, Israeli Forces hunt hamas. Theyre still launching attacks from tunnels and buildings.
For advanced weapons and Defence Systems. President zelensky said the Military Aid Package would give his country a chance of victory in its war against russia. Translation i think this support will really strengthen the armed forces of ukraine, and we will have a chance for victory if ukraine really gets the Weapons System which we need so much, thousands of soldiers need so much. And this aid should notjust to be sprayed in a thin layer all over but it has to end up in tangible Weapons Systems. Many ukrainians have taken to social media to thank the us for the funding. This is what residents in the capital told the bbc. Translation of course it is not too late. In any case, it is needed, and whether it would be later or earlier, in any case it will help. Translation it will help a lot, i i think our guys will be alive, l thats the most important thing, the most important, so that we have something to defend ourselves with both the people and our boys, they are our guardians, they are
leader escaped from jail, there were prison riots, an armed attack on a tv station and several politicians were murdered. in the last year alone 8,000 violent deaths have been recorded. but human rights groups are concerned that if these measures are passed it could lead to abuses such as police brutality and arbitrary arrests which, they say, have already increased this year. our south america correspondent ione wells is following the story from quito. a state of emergency and an internal armed conflict was announced by the president back injanuary, and that was because one of the top gang leaders escaped from prison. that led to mass prison riots, violence on the streets, mass increase in both killings but also kidnappings as well. and that triggered the president at the time to announce this state of emergency, essentially a package of extraordinary measures like bringing in the military to try and control law and order in the streets and in prisons,
struggling to police the divide. angus crawford, bbc news. ecuador s national prison agency say they are trying to establish who is behind the death of a prison director who died on sunday. his death comes as ecuadorians have been voting in a referendum to bolster security in response to a surge in violence by drugs gangs. measures include an expansion of military and police powers that will allow the military to patrol the streets alongside the police. they ll also signicantly boost gun controls and impose harsher prison sentences for terrorism and drug trafficking. president daniel noboha also wants to change the constitution so ecuadoreans wanted abroad for organised crime related offences can be extradited. let s speak to our south america correspondent ione wells, in quito. ione get us up to speed with this. i understand a prison warden has also been murdered on the day