despite doctors insisting he is brain dead. the israeli prime minister is to step down and dissolve parliament triggering a fresh election. the mountain guerillas of central africa, once on the brink of extinction, now their numbers are rising, are there other lessons for conservation? good evening and welcome to bbc news. britain is facing its biggest rail strike in 30 years with significant disruption to services across england, scotland and wales. last minute talks between unions and rail bosses failed this afternoon. the dispute between the rail, maritime and transport workers union, and the companies which run britain s railway centres on pay, job losses and changes to workers terms and conditions. the strike action begins tomorrow, and will continue on thursday and saturday. most major lines will be impacted by the strikes. there will be a limited service running, but many areas will have will have no services at all. distruption is also expected on non strike da
there s always talk about it being so unpolitical but ijust don t see how it is. tonight with the context, lord bilimoria president of the confederation of british industry and founder of cobra beer and ron christie former senior advisor to president george w bush. welcome to the programme. after weeks of dicussions, eu leaders have agreed on a partial embargo of russian oil imports. the plan is expected to affect up to 90% of russian oil imports by the end of the year. it will only affect oil that arrives by sea that s around two thirds of imports. but not pipeline oil, following strong opposition from hungary. first, this is the eu s foreign policy chief. we were in versaille bursae a few weeks ago, not many observers would ve thought it would ve been possible for us only in a few weeks to take such a concrete and historic decision. we have decided to sanction russia by banning russian oil, this is extremely important and we will succeed in the following months to i
Bill blair in ottawa, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much, stephen. Its a pleasure to have you on the show. As Minister Of Defence in canada, how embarrassed are you that your country is still significantly failing to meet the collective commitment of nato Member States to spend at least 2 of your gdp on defence . Stephen, im not embarrassed at all because canada, under our government, has been investing very significantly in defence and theres been a very strong upper projectory of Defence Spending. Weve just introduced our latest Defence Policy, which injects a significant amount of new investment into Defence Spending. It builds up greater capabilities, it moves us much closer to the target of 2 , and with some of the other things that weve articulated in this Defence Policy, i think we are on a strong and inevitable path to achieving that 2 goal. Canada is well aware of its responsibilities to our nato allies, to our continental allies, through norad in the United States, and
Obviously organised and the van which was an armoured van was ferrying this prisoner who had just been for a judicial hearing and it was attacked at the toll booth because that is where everything slows down. And it was filmed by people in a bus that was in a different pay at the toll booth who suddenly found themselves outside their windows with a war. The criminal is aged 30, his nickname is the fly. Very obviously this was organised. He had tried to escape two days ago and had been caught. Somebody had given him something to so open the bars on his window. Very obviously the whole thing was probably to stop the current proceedings because the proceedings he was going to have to do with burglaries but he is suspected heavily of being a narcotics boss. You would think you are in mexico. You would think you are in mexico. You now have 200 john darren in pursuit. Thejohn darren are the police for the countryside but they are military and there is a plan which is for serious violent crim
Top diplomat Antony Blinken on a surprise visit to kyiv. Also tonight. At least two french Prison Officers are killed in an ambush on a Prison Van Near Normandy in france. The prisoner was being taken from court to a prison and escaped after the attack. More protests rock the Georgian Capital Tblisi after its Parliament Passes a controverisal law that opponents say will stifle dissent and curtail the countrys attempts tojoin the eu. And trump on trial his former lawyer Michael Cohen resumes testimony in new york saying he lied out of loyalty and to protect the former president. Well bring you the latest, live from new york. We start with news from the surprise visit from Antony Blinken. Americas top diplomat Antony Blinken, says the war with russia is at a critical moment. The us Secretary Of State made the comment during talks with ukraines president zelensky in kyiv, also promising americas unwavering support in the fight. Mr blinken, was speaking after a new russian offensive in th