bbc specialists, and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to their audiences back home, from the dateline london. this week, borisjohnson s stay of execution, the uk s inflation problem and whyjoe biden has a problem keeping nato allies on side over ukraine. to discuss all that, we are joined by marc roche, a columnist and correspondent with the french news magazine le point and isabel hilton, who is distinguished as a foreign correspondent, and this has been followed by founding china dialogue, improving the understanding of china s environmental challenges. here in the studio, the bbc s business editor, simonjack. welcome to all of you, good to have you all with us this weekend. now, it is official, everything in the uk is going up. the number of conservative mps demanding a vote on whether to replace the prime minister, the number of labour mps, after this week s defection and the odds on borisjohnson surviving in office. none of that can be blamed on i
and we begin this very busy hour with new attacks across leave. russia launched a series of cruise missiles into the city in the nation s western region this morning. nbc news cannot independently verify the death toll there, but nbc s ali arouzi was in lviv when those strikes hit. that was ant plane. that was a cruise missile. wait for one more. they fire them in 30-second intervals. smoke! stand by. three cruise missile, caliber stand by. five, six, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12 there s the smoke. there s the smoke. that s three. so three cruise missiles. yeah. stand by. also in the past 24 hours, ukrainian fighters in mariupol are refusing to surrender as russia claims it is close to seizing the key port city. i would like to warn our viewers the video you re about to see is graphic and disturbing. the situation in mariupol growing more dire by the day. inside the city, bodies covered in blankets, lining the road. some are placed into makeshift graves with hand-wr
confidence, which has been hit by an economic slowdown and a deepening crisis in the property sector. earlier, i spoke to charu chanana from investment bank saxo, and she told me investors want to see beijing implement long term structural reforms. it s not something that can offer that long term comfort to chinese investors or those who are actually looking for the stocks to get dirt cheap and kind of, you know, make an entry into that market. these are measures that we have obviously seen in the past as well, in the last few weeks, and all they really do is to try to put a floor but it is not something that investors are excited about, the chinese market. i think investors are really waiting for some kind of a structural reform there. and just the whole message that has been coming out of the politbureau meeting and the lack of details on when we are really going to see that third plan meeting which actually focuses on the structural side of the economy. i mean, those are
he shot reeva steenkamp multiple times through a bathroom door on valentine s day in 2013, later claiming he mistook herfor a burglar at their home in pretoria. reeva s mother says she s serving a life sentence. from pretoria, daniel de simone sent this report. commentator: oscar pistorius is champion! | oscar pistorius, convicted murderer, today leaves prison on parole. he was once a paralympic and olympic superstar nicknamed the blade runner. his victim was girlfriend reeva steenkamp, a law graduate and model. pistorius murdered her on valentine s day 2013 by shooting four times through a locked toilet door at his home. his trial absorbed the world. pistorius claimed to have shot reeva by mistake, thinking an intruder was in the house. i got to the bed and then i realised reeva wasn t there. at first only found guilty of the equivalent of manslaughter, he was convicted on appeal in 2015 of murder, withjudges saying his story was inconsistent and improbable. reeva s close
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