Among the injured are at least 19 police officers, five rescuers, and a child. The head of the Donetsk Region said the strikes damaged a hotel as well as shops and administrative buildings. Meanwhile, ukraines Intelligence Agency announced that it arrested a woman in connection with an alleged assassination plot against president zelensky. The woman was allegedly preparing a russian airstrike in the mikolaiv region during mr zelensky s visit to the area. Our ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse has more. So these are quite interesting allegations emerging from the southern mykolaiv region. Sources at the Security Forces have told us they have arrested a woman who is accused of travelling around the local area, taking pictures of Different Military sites, and sharing them with her russian handlers. But these are part of a string of allegations which include her trying to get hold of the itinerary of an official visit by president zelensky and trying to share that with moscow, which wo
my understanding was that the acting deputy secretary left the door open for continued discussions and that basically the united states, in what i considered a rare move, offered its good officers to help move toward a diplomatic solution. that would be my interpretation of that experience. why do i think on this first encounter with the acting head of this junta was not more compliant or more embracing, i think it is because it is a first encounter, i also got the impression from reports i heard that maybe the deputy secretary didn t see the whole junta. i m not sure if there is still unity in that group. our correspondent, chris ewokor, is following the story from neighbouring nigeria. it is one day after the expiration of the ultimatum given to niger coup leaders by ecowas to reinstate president mohamed bazoum. the leaders are due to meet on thursday this week to deliberate on the proposals by ecowas defence chiefs,
let s look at news in the uk. 15 asylum seekers have spent their first night on the uk government s controversial accommodation barge, after a series of delays over safety concerns. ministers want to move hundreds more onto the bibby stockholm in dorset this week, but some have already refused to go launching legal challenges. it comes as the home office announces a new taskforce to crack down on rogue lawyers who may be helping migrants to remain in the uk, underfalse claims. ellie price reports. the first asylum seekers move into their new temporary home of the coast of dorset. 15 arrived yesterday on day one. not everyone who was supposed to come here dead. we not everyone who was supposed to come here dead. not everyone who was supposed to come here dead. we have had a small grow to come here dead. we have had a small group of to come here dead. we have had a small group of 20 to come here dead. we have had a small group of 20 refused - to come here dead. we have had a small
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it comes after the expiry of a sunday deadline from west african regional bloc, ecowas, which demanded the coup be reversed. the group now plans to hold an emergency summit on thursday. meanwhile, the united states is suspending more than $100 million in aid to niger. but officials insist there s still time to solve the crisis. the window of opportunity is definitely still open. we believe that the junta should step aside and allow president bazoum to resume his duties today, tomorrow, anytime in the near future. i don t want to put an assessment on when that window would be closed, other than to say that using diplomacy to achieve this objective is our top priority with respect to niger. bisa williams is a former us ambassador to niger. she told us more about the meeting between the us state department official victoria nuland and the coup leaders.