welcome to world news america in the uk, on pbs, and around the globe. we start in moscow where president vladimir putin has been playing host to one of his most important remaining allies, china s president, xijinping. it s the chinese leader s first visit to russia since russia invaded ukraine last year. beijing still maintains that its position in the war is neutral and it s come up with a plan for peace talks between the two sides. mr putin who just days ago was accused of war crimes by international prosecutors said he was looking forward to discussing that plan. our russia editor steve rosenberg, has sent this report from moscow. just three days ago, vladimir putin was named as a war crimes suspect by the international criminal court. but that didn t stop china s president flying in and shaking his hand. putin and xi have met many times before, but never before has russia s president been under such pressure. his war in ukraine not going at all according to pla
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hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. long delays at airports in the uk tonight due to an outage affecting passport e gates at the border. we will get to the border situation shortly, but we had a fairly robust conversation earlier. she sits on the national security committee, so we went at length in that interview, because we don t often get that opportunity. rachel shabi and julio ricardo varela were listening, apologies for not bringing you off the bat, but i thought i would get your thoughts on what you heard, ritual, what did you make of that? i think it s outrageous for a member of the knesset to create massive massive humanitarian disaster in gaza and have the audacity to blame the un for not dealing with it when clearly un agencies have been screaming and pleaded and implored four months along with other aid agencies for israel to one, open the borders to facilitate the transfer of aids, including essentialfood and water and medical
both beat expectations on earnings and revenue, thanks in no small part to investments in artificial intelligence. one stand out spot for alphabet was google cloud revenue, whichjumped 28% in 01. a lot of generative ai tools that rely on the cloud to reach customers. alphabet announced some good news for investors, its first ever dividend of 20 cents per share, and first ever dividend of 20 cents pershare, and an first ever dividend of 20 cents per share, and an additional $70 billion buy back. that initially sent shares into double digits after the bell. and for microsoft s part, its intelligent cloud division delivered greater revenue than expected thanks to microsoft partnership but with openai, the creator of chatgpt. shares rose on the news. and together, they should go some way through restoring confidence in the tech sector which was shaken wednesday after meta s stock fell after its own earnings report and after the market was rattled by slowing us gdp and stubborn
To move across the northern isles, particularly shetland. behind that we see some sunny spells, yes, but some big showers will pop up, some heavy, thundery ones, and then later in the day, the next weather system on the conveyor belt starts to push into northern ireland, some outbreaks of persistent rain here through the late afternoon. but very mild, ii is. so this weather system swings its way eastwards during tuesday night. behind it, we end up with quite a strong southwesterly wind and that will feed plenty of showers in our direction. so this band of rain here swirls away northeastwards. it will linger across the northern isles for a time. then we are back into sunny spells and heavy, thundery, blustery showers, wind gusts around some western coasts on wednesday, could well get to around 50mph or a touch more. but despite that brisk wind, it will again feel mild. seven for lerwick, ia for hull and norwich. the weather front this week controlled by this big, lumbering area of low p