now on bbc news six months ago, thousands of ukrainian civilians joined the military to fight invading russian forces, including members of one of ukraine s top rock bands, antytila. come on. come on, come on. our music has vibration of love, but war has vibration of hate. we don t have a lot of equipment, so we need to buy this equipment by ourselves. i have no tears anymore. i m tired to cry. blood smells disgusting for me. and we are camouflaging this car to give it back to the front line. the sadness defeat me. every day like this. i m frontman of antytila, popular band in ukraine. and now me with my friends, with my colleagues serving in territorial defence forces in kharkiv region. we are in our store, in our supply depot. here is a lot of bandages, tourniquets. we saved a lot of lives using this tourniquets. we are paramedical team. paramedical squad. first of all, our main aim is to give the first aid to wounded and injured soldiers. and to transport them from the b
festival returns after a covid enforced absence. a long delayed un report says serious human rights abuses have been committed in the chinese region of xinjiang against uighur muslims. it also found that allegations of torture and sexual abuse during what china calls vocational education and training are credible. beijing, which saw the report in advance, dismissed it as a farce. earlier, i spoke to peter irwin from the uighur human rights project, who said the chinese government won t be a credible player on the world stage unless they take action now. we have been waiting all day for the report, and we have been essentially waiting a full year for this report to be released. in particular, it uncovers the chinese government facade that there was nothing to see in the uighur region. there is something to see. that has been confirmed by the un. they say it might be crimes against humanity. they are no longer allegations, they are confirmation of horrendous human rights abuses
the former president of the soviet union, the man whose policies of glasnost and perestroika were supposed to reinvigorate the soviet system but which, in fact, hastened its demise. well, today, he s going to reflect with me on the current state of east west relations. mikhail gorbachev, welcome to hardtalk. it was 1989 here in berlin when the wall came down. it took two more years for the soviet union to collapse. but in your view, was it inevitable when this wall came down here in berlin that the soviet union was finished? he speaks russian. russian translation: the point i want to make is that you believed for a long time that you could reform and revitalise the soviet union, and you were wrong because, in the end, the process of glasnost and perestroika killed off the soviet union. and i wonder now, looking back, whether you feel that was a good thing or whether, like vladimir putin, you feel, well, as he says, that it was a catastrophic event, the most catastrophic event
During Ramzan, the authorities (in China) are requiring 1,811 villages (in Xinjiang) to implement a round-the-clock monitoring system, including spot home inspections of Uyghur (Muslim) families, a report said
welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. un inspectors arrive in the southern ukrainian city of zaporizhzhia, on a mission to prevent a nuclear accident at the russian held power plant. my mission is a technical mission, that seeks to prevent a nuclear accident. the un releases its long awaited report on alleged human rights abuses against uighur muslims in china. no end in sight to the floods sweeping across pakistan the rising waters turning roads into rivers in the worst affected areas. as the tributes continue, preparations are being made for the funeral of mikhail gorbachov, the last