antony blinken, the us secretary of state, promising a written reply to his russian counterpart sergei lavrov, addressing russia s sweeping demands. russia s sweeping demands, some experts worried that russia is being allowed to set the agenda. it s asking for a demilitarised eastern europe and a denuclearised continent so that the only forces threatening europe are russian ones and the only nuclear missiles that could threaten european capitals are russian ones. that ought not to be a situation that is acceptable to anybody in the west of europe. russia s build up along ukraine s northern and eastern borders continues, moscow still insisting it has no plans to invade, it s all just drills. but it s now been ten months since russia started massing troops here, a gun held to ukraine s head for almost a year. what s really being planned behind the kremlin walls? as the troops assemble and the political plots swirl, the west is still left guessing. paul adams, bbc news. a bbc investigatio
niger. they have been long standing islamist insurgencies in those countries, especially in mali, which spread across the region. in the current also in the last few years a million people have been displaced from their homes. in burkina faso. in one incident, 50 members of the military and four civilians were killed in a single incident. there has been an increasing rise of tension within the country and in the military as well. it is worth noting that in any african nation of any african nation, burkina faso has seen more military coups than any other. so this is not a first for the country. we will have to watch and see how it develops. the spread of the omicron variant may have moved the covid i9 pandemic into a new phase and could bring it to an end in europe, according to experts at the world health organisation. they predict that 60% of the region could be infected by march. stephanie prentice reports. a return to normality in europe may not be here yet but it could be
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we ve been in war with them for seven years, and don t forget that our previous government actually fled to russia, nowhere else. it s highly unusual for intelligence of this kind to be put into the public domain in such a brief, abrupt manner. it s a reflection of the extreme anxiety across government about what vladimir putin might be planning. it s a way of saying to the kremlin, we see what you re doing. but after friday s talks in geneva, there is more diplomacy to come, antony blinken, the us secretary of state, promising a written reply to his russian counterpart sergei lavrov, addressing russia s sweeping demands, some experts worried that russia is being allowed to set the agenda. it s asking for a demilitarised eastern europe and a denuclearised continent so that the only forces threatening europe are russian ones and the only nuclear missiles that could threaten european capitals are russian ones. that ought not to be a situation that is acceptable to anybody in the west o
we get the balance right with the measures that are needed to reduce the spread? we are asking people to be very cautious, for the moment. this pandemic will end. we will not be in this cycle forever. the pandemic has killed an estimated 5.6 million people worldwide so far, 1.7 million of them in europe. the next stage of the cycle, covid i9 becoming endemic, constantly present but manageable without large scale threats to health systems. time goes by and more and more people are exposed to the virus or get vaccinated against the virus than the ability of the virus to cause that kind of problem on that kind of scale gradually goes down so that we see further waves but each wave tends to be less severe. what we can t be absolutely sure about is that we have got to the end of the pandemic until it ends. the who s advice, stay open minded about the future but stay cautious.