france has had little rain in the last few weeks, and water levels have dropped alarmingly. spain has also suffered from the drought. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. nicaragua s veteran autocratic leader daniel ortega has been locking up political dissidents for years now. he has a new tactic mass deportation and withdrawal of citizenship from those who dare to criticize him and his family. my guest today is felix maradiaga, who was recently taken from his nicaraguan prison cell and flown to america. the good news is he s been reunited with his family after years apart. the bad news is ortega is trying to eliminate all opposition. so has resistance become impossible in nicaragua? felix maradiaga in miami. welcome to hardtalk. thank you, steve. and it s a pleasure to be back here. well, it is great to have you back on hardtalk, not least because you have just emerged from more than 600 days in a nicaraguan prison. was it a surprise wh
explosives. more now from evan perez. reporter: according to the fbi, he checked the bag and in routine screening happening by the tsa, they found explosives in this checked bag. according to the fbi, this is what they found. they found powder that was in a plastic wrap, they found fuses. powder appears to be from commercial grade fireworks. and so the question is, you know, what was he doing with this. the airport tried to page him while he was still at the airport. he left. and he was later arrested that evening on monday by the fbi. the court documents that were released today by the u.s. attorney in philadelphia don t mention any indication of extremism or his ties to terrorist groups or anything like that, something obviously that the fbi was focused on the last couple of days. nothing like that appears to have emerged in that investigation. this is a very serious thing obviously. if you read the court documents, the fbi says that this powder that was included in this
but there is increasing pressure for more help with military tanks from germany to help fight off the russian invasion. poland says its will make an official request to the german government. the british prime minister has said there are clearly questions that need answering following reports that the chairman of the conservative party and former chancellor nadeem the howie was forced to pay a significant penalty and millions of pounds in unpaid taxes. rishi sunak has ordered an investigation into whether there were breaches of the ministerial code. mr zahawi is facing calls to resign but he said repeatedly that he made a careless but not a deliberate error. are your tax affairs a distraction for the party, mr zahawi? down the stairs and into the car the man who was charged a penalty by the tax authority and settled a huge tax bill while he was chancellor of the exchequer. nadhim zahawi is now the chairman of the conservatives. his boss, the prime minister, left facing ques
someone who was once a stand in doing something similar. eddie nketiah 1 1. the emirates volume turned up. bukayo saka was about to make it fever pitch, a drop of the shoulder and a brilliant strike and the league leaders were leading again. time to keep your focus. but unfortunately for arsenal, aaron ramsdale lost his and that meant united were level. the man with a band was lisandro martinez. but this is a different arsenal and this was their encore, zinchenko, odegaard, nketiah. a remarkable win, a remarkable game, where arsenal were on song again and they continue to march on. craig templeton, bbc news. erling haaland scored his fourth manchester city hat trick to give them a 3 0 win over wolves at the etihad. it s 25 premier league goals for the season now for the norwegian. that s more than the golden boot winner for the past four seasons. he has 31 in total in city colours and was even given a rest for the last half an hour. leeds united have now gone six games withou
called the report rubbish. the bbc chairman said there was not a conflict . turkey has defended the burning of the koran in front of the turkish embassy. now on bbc news, the travel show. coming up on this week s show. during the pandemic many of us realised just how intense was our passion for travel. the ukrainian artwork that has now found a safe home on display at a gallery in madrid. and who discovered the equator? hello and welcome to the travel show, coming to you this week from behind the scenes at our home here at the bbc in london. it is here where we plan the shows and edit the films from all over the world, finding stories, juggling logistics and, just like everybody else, trying to find the biggest bang for our buck when it comes to travelling abroad. over the past decade here at the travel show hq it has been ourjob to create new content for you every week on a fairly modest budget. so no wonder we picked up a tip or two along the way about how to get the most