hello and welcome to bbc news. the vatican says pope francis has spent a good night in hospital after being admitted with a respiratory infection. a spokesman said he had been experiencing breathing difficulties, but they also confirmed he was not suffering from covid. the bbc s davide ghiglione is outside the hospital in rome. a spokesperson informed journalists that he spent a peaceful night at the hospital. so his condition remains stable at the moment. the vatican is trying to reassure journalists, people and catholics all over the world. according to italian news agency ansa, the pope should be discharged within the next couple of days. and he should be able to celebrate next sunday s mass. everybody knows at the vatican that the pope has been particularly weak over the last couple of months. we do know already that he was forced to use a wheelchair. so it could be quite tiring for him even if he is able to attend all the ceremonies and easter celebrations. we can get mo
as the cost of living crisis deepens, we look at different approaches adopted in some european countries to ease the pain for consumers. we start in ukraine. a team of united nations inspectors has visited the zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which has been under russian control for six months. this is the moment they arrived. it wasn t an easy journey. this area is close to the front line and the inspectors were forced to stop a checkpoint for over three hours. the inspectors are from the un s international atomic energy agency, the iaea. some have already left, including the director general. here s what he said. we are not going anywhere. the iaea is now there, it s at the plant and it s not moving. it s going to stay there. we are going to have a continued presence there at the plant with some of my experts and of course now we have with my team a lot of work in terms of a detailed analysis of some of the more technical aspects of what we saw. this map shows you just how c
Soon after a company was appointed to partner PetroSA in a R21bn deal it's politically connected owner, Lawrence Mulaudzi, started scrambling to find entities with the requisite technical and financial capacity to execute the huge project.
Energy experts said it was not the cheapest option despite Ramokgopa saying otherwise. They questioned the timing of the announcement and pointed out discrepancies and unrealistic expectations tabled by Ramokgopa.