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our correspondent hugo bachega who s currently sheltering in an underground bunker hugo bachega said that in the past hour, the air raid alert in the capital went off, at around 02:20am, local time. the bbc team heard at least one loud explosion, and the city s air defence has been activated. earlier today, ukraine says at least 21 were killed, in an attack on kherson. missile strikes hit a market, a railway station, a petrol station and residential builings. station and residential buildings. it comes as ukraine s president zelensky denied that his country carried out an alleged drone attack on the kremlin. russia says it was an attempt on vladimir putin s life. this video, which appears to show the drone attack, remains unverified. our analysis editor ros atkins has been taking a closer look. russia claims ukraine try to kill vladimir putin in the early hours of wednesday. this is the first video we have. it s in moscow. we see an object lay in from the left a ....
tales of traumatic atrocity. and the most difficult years of his career. the billionaire businessman sir richard branson tells the bbc he thought he was going to lose his entire empire in the pandemic. hello, i m sally bundock. a new wave of russian airstrikes is under way in ukraine, with reports of explosions in kyiv and the southern cities of zaporizhzhia and odesa. the raids come a day after russia accused ukraine of carrying out a drone attack on the kremlin it what it claimed was an attempt to assassinate president putin. ukraine has rejected accusations that it was responsible. vincent mcaviney reports. flying in from the left, what appears to be a drone, then an explosion over the kremlin. this footage is explosion over the kremlin. this footage is unverified explosion over the kremlin. this footage is unverified but the kremlin says early on wednesday morning, two drones targeted the residents of the president. moscow quick to blame ukraine saying that no one w ....
in the united states where the central bank, the us federal reserve, has raised the cost of borrowing for the tenth time. the quarter percent rise puts the fed s main interest rate at between 5 and 5. 25% the highest it s been in 16 years. but has it done enough to tame inflation? or with banks struggling and recession looming, has the fed gone too far? our north america business correspondent samira hussain reports from new york. inflation remained stubbornly high, to try to get the cost of living back down to more normal levels the federal reserve has raised interest rates ten times in a little over a year, now it seems it may be ready to perhaps take a pause. the committee perhaps take a pause. the committee will perhaps take a pause. the committee will take - perhaps take a pause. the committee will take into account the cumulative tightening of monetary policy, le-s tightening of monetary policy, legs with which policy affects economic activity and inflation ....
hello, i m lucy hockings. russia has blamed the united states for wednesday s alleged drone attack on the kremlin. moscow initially blamed kyiv directly, but the kremlin spokesman, dmitry peskov, has now told reporters that the decision to attack was made in washington, with kyiv executing it on us orders. he gave no evidence. kyiv has denied any involvement, saying it s focused on defending its own territory. the foreign ministry in moscow has separately accused ukraine of launching an unprecedented wave of sabotage attacks against russia. in the hague, president volodymyr zelensky has called for a fully fledged tribunal to hold russia accountable for its war of aggression against ukraine. he made the comments in a speech after visiting the international criminal court. it has symbolic importance, coming less than two months after the icc issued arrest warrants for vladimir putin on war crimes charges. let s listen to what he said at the hague. lasting peace after vict ....
with just two days to go into the coronation, excitement is building on the mall where the clouds are camped out. hello, welcome to bbc news. i am lewis vaughan jones. we are starting in russia where president vladimir putin has made his first tv appearance since an alleged attempt on his life. we have got these pictures in the last couple of hours. here he is in these pictures released by the kremlin in a routine meeting with economic development minister maxim reshetnikov. presumably projecting an image of business as usual. russia claims ukraine was targeting putin in this drone atack on the kremlin on wednesday following orders from the united states. both kyiv and washington have denied any involvement. russia launched a series of air raids on kyiv overnight, in apparent retaliation. but authorities say all the strikes were intercepted by air defences which you can see working here. strikes were also reported in zaporizhizhia and odessa. our russia edit ....