i m samira hussain. i m arunoday mukharji. well, india hasjust had a mammoth election. 6a2 million people voted over a month and a half. and these elections are important because whatever happens here has global ramifications. and the results, they were surprising. narendra modi will keep his job as prime minister. but the intractable leader, well, he now depends on other parties to back him up. actually, arunoday, you broke down the numbers. let s take a look. the world s largest democratic exercise. elections in a country of 1.4 billion, done and dusted. here s everything you need to know about the results. the bjp won the most number of seats, 240, but it s still not the victory narendra modi was hoping for. he has 63 less seats than what the bjp won in the last election, and less than 272 that is needed to have a majority, which means he is not the final word on politics or policy, and will have to rely on unpredictable alliance partners and establish a consensus. other t
zircon missiles. they conducted drills earlier in the atlantic. but cuba s foreign ministry says none of those ships are carrying nuclear arms, and that russia s five day visit does not pose a threat to region. this all comes as cuba s foreign minister bruno rodriguez and his russian counterpart sergei lavrov, met in moscow. earlier i spoke with our cuba and america correspondent for more. you have heard there that they are at pains to stress that there is no threat to the region by these naval exercises. that this is simply and they have been underlining this a friendship between the communist run island and russia. that it underscores that friendship, that between of coorporation between long standing allies, notjust as russia, but previously of course with the soviet union. they want to remove any senses of echoes of the cold war at such a time of heightened tensions, and focus, if you like, on the fact that there is a bilateral relationship here between russia and cub
they got closer to cuba. on wednesday russia s defence ministry said two of the vessels are carriers of advanced weapons, including hypersonic zircon missiles. they conducted drills earlier in the atlantic. but cuba s foreign ministry says none of those ships are carrying nuclear arms, and that russia s five day visit does not pose a threat to region. this all comes as cuba s foreign minister bruno rodriguez and his russian counterpart sergei lavrov, met in moscow. live now to the bbc s central american and cuba correspondent will grant. good to see you. what are cuban officials are saying about this? ., ., ., ., , this? you have heard that they are at pains this? you have heard that they are at pains to this? you have heard that they are at pains to stress - this? you have heard that they are at pains to stress there - this? you have heard that they are at pains to stress there is i are at pains to stress there is no threat to the region by these naval exercises. it is a
of the alleged proposed changes were workable, but some went beyond what the group had previously agreed to in talks for a ceasefire. speaking in qatar wednesday, secretary blinken reiterated that hamas was the party holding back an agreement. a deal was on the table that was virtually identical to the proposal that hamas put forward on may 6th. a deal that the entire world was behind, a deal israel has accepted, and hamas could have answered with a single word, yesi. instead, hamas waited nearly two weeks, and then proposed more changes, a number of which go beyond positions it had previously taken and accepted. the senior hamas official mentioned earlier responded to secretary blinken. osama hamdan told the bbc that mr blinken is part of the problem, not the solution. he said hamas designated a terrorist organization by the us maintains its demands for a permanent ceasefire and a complete withdrawal of israeli forces from gaza. that s a slight variation from the three pha