To defend themselves, citing the threat of Foreign Military intervention. They claim to have information a foreign power is preparing to attack. It comes after the expiry of a sunday deadline from west African Regional bloc ecowas, which demanded the coup be reversed. The group now plans to hold an Emergency Summit on thursday. Meanwhile, the United States is suspending more than 100 million in aid to niger. But officials insist theres still time to solve the crisis. I spoke to former state Department Official Bisa Williams earlier to get insights into the situation. We are now learning more about the Acting Deputy Secretary of states unsuccessful attempts to negotiate some kind of settlement to see a return to power of president Mohamed Bazoum. Why do you think she wasnt able to make any progress there . Im not sure i would characterise that as unsuccessful completely. My understanding was that the Acting Deputy Secretary left the door open for continued discussions and that basically
Among the injured are at least 19 police officers, five rescuers, and a child. The head of the Donetsk Region said the strikes damaged a hotel as well as shops and administrative buildings. Meanwhile, ukraines Intelligence Agency announced that it arrested a woman in connection with an alleged assassination plot against president zelensky. The woman was allegedly preparing a russian airstrike in the mikolaiv region during mr zelensky s visit to the area. Our ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse has more. So these are quite interesting allegations emerging from the southern mykolaiv region. Sources at the Security Forces have told us they have arrested a woman who is accused of travelling around the local area, taking pictures of Different Military sites, and sharing them with her russian handlers. But these are part of a string of allegations which include her trying to get hold of the itinerary of an official visit by president zelensky and trying to share that with moscow, which wo
Away from the embassy, to the centre south of tel aviv. To the centre, south of tel aviv. And earlier in the week, as you were saying, there are activists within the Eritrean Community they mostly reside in the south of tel aviv who had warned against hosting this. They say that the authorities didnt heed their warnings. Certainly, the israeli authorities the police, the hospitals as well seem to have been really caught by surprise with what happened here. There were attempts to break through police barricades. The Israeli Police then ended up using all of these different riot control methods, as they describe them, to try to push people back but you could see as well from some of the videos that have been shared on social media that there were actually also street fights going on and notjust with the police, but also involving Asylum Seekers who are against the eritrean regime and those who are in favour of it, and that has been something that weve seen in the past not on this scale i
impose the kinds of measures that our congress requires. i5 that our congress requires. is one of those signals the new us ambassador to niger, kathleen fitzgibbon there, this week, obviously a post yourself in the past. is that an important thing for the us government to do at this point? it is important do at this point? it is important for - do at this point? it is i important for kathleen fitzgibbon, who was a career diplomat, to be posted to niger at this time. but it is not, i don t thing, links, i m pretty sure it s not linked to the idea that the united states is sending signals. in fact, kathleen was nominated over a year ago, our kathleen was nominated over a yearago, our own kathleen was nominated over a year ago, our own domestic situation held up, i think, have been confirmed. she was finally confirmed i think late july, 27july also and so now they are sending her to post. but this is a crisis period in niger and our embassy needs professional, experienced leadership and
is determined to restore president mohamed bazoum. ecowas had previously intervened during civil wars in liberia and sierra leone in the 19905 and more recently in the gambia. niger is one of the poorest countries in the world. bit it s also battling a deadly islamist insurgency. it is the staging point for the western counter terrorism efforts in the sahel. and there are concerns that any further instability could worsen the already fragile security system in the region. thomas naadi, bbc news, accra. meanwhile, the new us ambassador to niger will touch down in the country in the coming days. the state department says kathleen fitzgibbon s arrival does not mean it accepts the government run by thejunta. for more on all of this, i spoke with the former us ambassador to niger, bisa williams. bisa williams, thank you indeed forjoining us this evening. ecowas has activated a standby force ready to invade niger