2014 started off as a triumphant year for russian president vladimir putin. he extended his rift into ukraine, and thumbed his nose at the west while doing it. but thanks to sanctions and sliding oil prices, 2015 is already looking to be a year of economic hardship for russia. it should be a growing disenchantment. today hundreds of protesters streamed into red square. they came out to protest a russian court sentencing of alex sigh navalny. we ll have more on that in a moment. but first, speaking of money, putin s financial problems are only mounting. rur sh russian companies are cut off from western credit. as a result, companies now face serious problems services more than $550 billion of russian corporate debt. they can t access western banks, so when they have to refinance, they have got to figure out new ways of doing so. meanwhile falling oil prices are cutting into russia s state budget and fuelling a currency crisis. russia s central bank estimates $128 billion was
2014 started off as a triumphant year for russian president vladimir putin. he extended his rift into ukraine, and thumbed his nose at the west while doing it. but thanks to sanctions and sliding oil prices, 2015 is already looking to be a year of economic hardship for russia. it should be a growing disenchantment. today hundreds of protesters streamed into red square. they came out to protest a russian court sentencing of alex sigh navalny. we ll have more on that in a moment. but first, speaking of money, putin s financial problems are only mounting. rur sh russian companies are cut off from western credit. as a result, companies now face serious problems services more than $550 billion of russian corporate debt. they can t access western banks, so when they have to refinance, they have got to figure out new ways of doing so. meanwhile falling oil prices are cutting into russia s state budget and fuelling a currency crisis. russia s central bank estimates $128 billion was
trial charged with insulting the president. but first some developing news from the united nations security council in new york. in the past few minutes it has approved a resolution condemning the use of chlorine as a chemical weapon in syria. james bayes at the u.n. for us now. what more can you tell us about this latest resolution on syria and what it means. reporter: it s a rare moment when the security council managing to agree on a resolution. this resolution was passed. only one country was opposed and that was venezuela. we re still in the meeting right now, some of the countries explaining their national positions. the french ambassador is speaking now, explaining the french positioning in his national capacity as we speak. we have heard from a number of other ambassadors saying this resolution is important because there have been these chlorine attacks in syria, and this promises that there will be measures taken in future if there are chlorine attacks. the ven
hello there. there are signs of a break through in the peace talks in morocco between libya s rival governments. both sides having a agree the structure of an deal on security. but talks are set to resume next week in morocco. but in central libya gunmen attacked an oil field killing eight guards. the government targeted the field in the south of the country. witnesses report smoke rising from the fas till. a statement from the national oil corporation, which runs the oil field implies the attackers are from the city of sirte which has been ceased by the islamic state of iraq and the levant in the last month. hashem ahelbarra has the latest from rabat now. hashem when we say they have agreed to the structure of a deal what does that mean? reporter: well basically delegations from the internationally recognized government of tobruk and the the tripoli-based gnc which is recognized as legitimate by though country s constitutional court came out of a meeting with the uni
making up different rules. and if you re affected by this story, and would like to ask a question about the latest quarantine rules or comment on any of our other stories, you can contact me on twitter @annita mcveigh #bbcyourquestions in other new, haualge and logistics bosses warn of significant gaps in uk border plans for the end of the brexit transition period on december 31st the duchess of cornwall sends a message of support for those who have been affected by domestic abuse during the pandemic. cases of violence have risen by 20 per cent globally, according to the un. and, coming up the yorkshire couple that have been delivering milk to people s doorsteps for 50 years with no signs of slowing down. and as kremlin critic alexei navalny remains in a coma after being poisoned with a novichok nerve agent, we ll speak to marina litvinenko, the wife of ex russian agent alexander litvinenko who died of radioactive polonium poisoning in the uk in 2006. good morning and