Militaryjuntas in neighbouring burkina faso and mali warned that any Foreign Military intervention in niger, would be considered a Declaration Of War on them. A french mp for emmanuel macron s Renaissance Party spoke to the bbc about the countrys Evacuation Mission and said paris was left with no other choice. Translation we estimate that a few hundred people french people wish to leave, and have clearly expressed this intention, since we know that the tradition between European Countries is to show solidarity. If other European Countries decide to organise your evacuations, which is possible, we would Work Together to evacuate those who want to leave. Niger is a key part of africas sahel region which stretches from the atlantic to the red sea. Burkina faso and mali, have also seen recent military coups, and say, they would come to the defence of their neighbour. On sunday, the Regional Bloc ecowas made up of 15 west african countries, gave the coup leaders in niger one week to restore
Is why on their day of conviction, i ordered an independent inquiry into the events at the countess of chester hospital, making sure the families that have answers. I asked the Police Liaison officers to meet these families at the earliest possible opportunity for options as to the form the inquiry should take. It was clear their wishes were for a statutory inquiry, with the power to compel witnesses to give evidence under oath. That is why i am confirming this to the house today. This inquiry will in quiet the cases wider circumstances, including the trusts response to clinicians who raised the alarm and the conduct of the wider nhs and its regulators. And i can confirm to the house that lady justice regulators. And i can confirm to the house that Ladyjustice Thirlwall will lead this inquiry. She is one of the countrys most seniorjudges, currently sitting in the Court Of Appeal and with many years of experience as a seniorjudge and a senior barrister before that. Before making this st
Room with western leaders talking about that. And today at a press Conference Ahead of those discussions between president erdogan and putin, the two of them in front of the cameras laughing and smiling before they sat down to sort of lay out the agenda for the day. So certainly president erdogan will be hoping he can come to some sort of an agreement, some sort of breakthrough, some sort of way to get russia back on board with renewing this grain deal because as we have seen, it has been crucial to the Global Community to getting food where it needs to go, for providing security for farmers across ukraine, that there are buyers out there that can get the crops they need. That their Storage Facilities have room for the new crop coming in, it is how the season now, so a lot of questions about what will happen. The two sides seem fairly optimistic, the turkish side seems optimistic, the turkish side seems optimistic they can come home for a with the deal. Global Food Security is one the
And doing work on the houses and the shop was full. So far, they are saying that four were killed and a couple of dozen wounded and so, i think for people here, its just another blow. The firefighters who went into the building have been incredibly busy this week because theres been other attacks on the central part of the city not long after the shop. President zelensky has said repeatedly that all of this proves the point that he keeps on Making Witches they need more effective air defences and for those, he is looking to his allies in europe and particularly, in the united states. Is caught this madness, the scene you described, exemplifies a typical weekend. Civilian existence, a diy store is civilian infrastructure and that should be protection under International Humanitarian law, have we heard anything from russia . Not that im aware of. Over the last weeks and months, ukrainians hit their side as well and they say they have lost civilians to attacks launched from Inside Ukraine
and more than 30 others injured on saturday when two glide bombs struck the diy store in ukraine s second city, kharkiv. an air raid warning sounded moments before explosions tore through the building, starting an intense fire. the ukrainian leader again urged western allies to send more air defences to ukraine. ukraine s military says the two glide bombs that hit kharkiv were among a0 that russia dropped on ukrainian army positions and civil infrastructure saturday. the ukrainian military says russian forces are continuing their offensive in the kharkiv region, with six attacks repelled by the ukrainian military. the bbc sjeremy bowen is in kharkiv. i spoke to him a short while ago. very good to have you with us. this airstrike took place on a crowded superstore there in ukraine s second largest city. what more can you tell us? it was mid afternoon, the weekend, a pretty nice day so they were people buying things for their gardens or to do a bit of work about the house, so t