the us central bank announces the biggest rise in us interest rates in nearly 30 years, to combat surging inflation. and, spain, southern france, and parts of italy swelter through an extreme heatwave. authorities are warning of water shortages. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. new us aid for ukraine, worth a billion dollars, has been announced by president biden. it includes additional artillery and coastal defence weapons, as well as ammunition for artillery and advanced rocket systems. new pledges came from nato members who met in brussels. the us defence secretary said he will move heaven and earth to ensure ukraine gets the weapons it needs to combat russia s invasion. here s a little of what lloyd austin had to say. we can t afford to let up, and we can t lose steam. the stakes are too high. ukraine is facing a pivotal moment on the battlefield. and we re seeing what president zelensky warned us about. after failing to take kyiv and reasses
The Socialist Party in the lead. And the best Television Programmes of 2023 are honoured at the Bafta Tv Awards in london. Sarah lancashire from the bbc s police drama happy valley taking home best actress. Hello, im rajini vaidyanathan. Russias Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu, is being removed from his post and will become the new secretary of russias security council. Hes a long standing ally of Vladimir Putin and has served as Defence Minister since 2012, Playing A Key role in russias invasion of ukraine. His replacement will be Andrei Belousov an economist and a deputy Prime Minister. What is the significance in this move i think the most significant thing is the fact that on the year of the full scale invasion, the third year, putin decided to change his minister of defence. The fact that the more senior position is losing a lot of influence when she used to have is now taking a new role. It says a lot about putins mind and his opinion of the state of the minister of russia. ~. ,.
Shows in many parts of the world. Hello im sarah campbell. Lets start in the middle east israels military has ordered more residents in parts of Eastern Rafah to evacuate the crowded city in gaza. Its told them to go here muwasi. This is the scene live at that location, which has been labelled an expanded humanitarian area by the Israel Defence forces. In a separate Evacuation Order on Monday Thousands were told to leave rafah, ahead of what israel called a limited operation. Theres been fighting in parts since. These developments have happened as a long awaited Us Government report has criticised israels use of american supplied weapons in the gaza war, saying its reasonable to assess they have been used in breach of International Humanitarian law in some instances. Lets cross over to rafah to speak to sam rose director of planning at the un agency for palestinian refugees, unrwa. Thank you forjoining us. Can we talk about the Evacuation Orders, people being asked, thousands of peop
Weapons in the gaza war, saying its reasonable to assess they have been used in breach of International Humanitarian law in some instances. But the carefully worded review by the state Department Said it did not have complete information in its assessment and concluded that the findings shouldnt stop more us Weapons Shipments to israel. Its been a difficult week for us israel relations. President biden said the us could suspend certain Arms Shipments to israel if it launches a full scale invasion into rafah a densly populated area where over1 million civilians are sheltering and in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Our state Department Correspondent tom bateman sent this update. This report has been three months in the making. It was ordered by the white house back in february with President Biden under growing pressure from human rights organisations, from part of his democratic base, over the way that american weapons were being used by the israelis in gaza. And what we have so f
Despite israel not fully cooperating with us efforts to get humanitarian aid into gaza in the initial months, it does not currently assess that israel is prohibiting or restricting the transport of aid supplies. It has been a difficult week for us israel relations. President joe biden said the us could suspend certain Arms Shipments to israel if it launches a full scale invasion into rafah, a densley populated area where over one million civilians are sheltering and in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Our state Department Correspondent tom bateman has this report. This report has been three months in the making. It was ordered by the white house back in february with President Biden under growing pressure from human rights organisations, from part of his democratic base, over the way that american weapons were being used by the israelis in gaza. And what we have so far are the key findings that the state department here have released, and there is a key line in this report and it