Aid agencies are setting up emergency shelters. Hoping to steady the ship. Uk Prime Minister borisjohnson adds new recruits to his inner circle at Downing Street. And brightening up The Dark Nordic Winter as europes largest Festival Of Lights illuminates the danish capital. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and Around The World. One of indias most famous singers, Lata Mangeshkar, has died at the age of 92. The Bollywood Superstar was known to millions as the nightingale of india and had an extraordinary career spanning over half a century, singing more than 30,000 songs in 36 languages. She was hospitalised last month with covid. In a tweet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said she leaves a void in the nation that cannot be filled. Rajini vaidyanathan looks back at her life. Singing. She was one of the most recorded artists in history with thousands of songs to her name. The voice of the silver screen. Lata mangeshkar was a bollywood playback singer. In indian musicals where actor
Aid agencies are setting up emergency shelters. Hoping to steady the ship. Uk Prime Minister borisjohnson adds new recruits to his inner circle at Downing Street. And brightening up The Dark Nordic Winter as europes largest Festival Of Lights illuminates the danish capital. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and Around The World. One of indias most famous singers, Lata Mangeshkar, has died at the age of 92. The Bollywood Superstar was known to millions as the nightingale of india and had an extraordinary career spanning over half a century, singing more than 30,000 songs in 36 languages. She was hospitalised last month with covid. In a tweet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said she leaves a void in the nation that cannot be filled. Rajini vaidyanathan looks back at her life. Singing. She was one of the most recorded artists in history with thousands of songs to her name. The voice of the silver screen. Lata mangeshkar was a bollywood playback singer. In indian musicals where actor
A sharp fall in its net profit, slipping 25 in 2023 compared to the previous year. Aramco attributed the downturn to Lower Crude Oil prices and decreased production. The companys net income dropped from 161 billion in 2022 to 121 billion last year. Despite the challenges posed by declining oil prices, aramco will increase its dividend payments, providing a much needed financial boost to saudi arabia. Lets get more now from our middle east Business Correspondent sameer hashmi. With a big fall off in profit, why is it increasing its dividend . It its dividend . Is a steep fall compared to 2022. It is a steep fall compared to 2022. It is still the second best performance in terms of annual results at 121 billion. Two reasons why they increased the dividend pay out. Number one, Aramco Abbott is the main driver of the Saudi Arabian economy. Saudi owned entities own 19 of it and they rely heavily on that income to really find some these massive projects inside arabia. They tried to keep the
British armys top ira spy probably cost more lives did in the Northern Ireland troubles than he saved. During the Northern Ireland troubles. Hello, and welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. A brand new way of getting aid into gaza. A new maritime corridor should be up and running by the weekend. Lets take a look at a map and see how it will work. This maritime corridor will carry aid from cyprus, there at the top, across the sea into gaza. At the same time, the us has said it is going to be building a temporary port, a temporary pier, to help get more aid into gaza from the sea. There have been different attempts to try to get aid in air recently, but these are widely seen as a largely inefficient way of getting the amount of aid into gaza. Of course there have been crossings by trucks, especially around the rafah area, but this latest attempts to get aid in by sea, the eu as part of this arrangement and made this announcement in cyprus a li
the end of the fighting in gaza but israel has already made it clear it won t tolerate a palestinian state once the guns go silent. prime minister benjamin netanyahu has said that if it s a question of israeli security or palestinian sovereignty, he will opt for the former. but that s at odds with the two state solution which washington favours and unlikely to go down well in the rest of the middle east. also ahead tata steel has confirmed that 2,800 jobs will go when it turns off its blast furnaces at port talbot. the company says it will greatly reduce carbon emissions other voices are worried the uk will be dependent on imports for a vital resource. and a newborn baby has been found abandoned in a park in east london. we ll look at how the uk and the us are tackling issues like this we will get reaction to all of that. our panel this evening, joining us from miami, the democratic strategist hilary rosen, and in london, the chief political commentator from i newspap