but from early morning, people in and around the russian capital did report hearing explosions. i heard them too. at home, my windows shook from the force of the blasts. russia s defence ministry accused ukraine of carrying out the attack, but said that russia s military had downed all the drones. ukraine has denied having anything to do with this. president putin clearly doesn t believe that. translation: the kyiv regime has chosen the path of scaring l russia and russian citizens by launching strikes on residential buildings. this is a clear sign of its terrorist activity. as they flew towards moscow, the drones sparked disbelief. look at that , the man says. it s right above our house! one of the drones crashed into a high rise apartment block. another flew into this residential building. here is part of it on the ground. the explosives failed to detonate. the area was cordoned off and emergency services removed it. among the local residents, the sense of shock is palpa
my guest is abdullah mohtadi, leader of the komala party of iranian kurdistan. is his a fight for rights orfor independence? abdullah mohtadi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure to have you on the show. i began by referring there to the tragic death of mahsa amini. would you say that her death last september in custody inside iran has changed the political dynamic inside iran? it has because, on the 16th of september, she was declared dead in the hospital. the day after, on the 17th, there was a funeral in her hometown of saqqez in the province of kurdistan there are four kurdish provinces in iran and it was a spontaneous protest movement erupted in saqqez, her hometown, and it soon spread to sanandaj, the capital city of that province. and two days after that, on the 19th, it was a general strike called by the cooperation center the kurdish political parties called by cooperation center of kurdish political parties which was fully observe
president zelensky has warned the destruction of the dam risks leaving hundreds of thousands of people without healthy water. extensive damage has been caused to buildings and farmland. the united nations has said the breach of the dam is one of the most significant incidents of damage to civilian infrastructure since the start of the russian invasion, and will have grave and far reaching consequences. moscow has denied destroying the dam, which it controls, instead blaming ukrainian shelling. the pictures you can see there are from one of the towns, these are coming to us live as a sum of the residents look on and i think one of the rescue boats, dinghies, hasjustarrived, and i think one of the rescue boats, dinghies, hasjust arrived, and and i think one of the rescue boats, dinghies, hasjustarrived, and i presume this is part of the evacuations that have been taking place for hours. our first report comes from jon donnison. breached, the nova kakhovka dam, now almost unreco
world tour have agreed to a shock merger with the saudi backed liv golf. this comes despite the pending litigation between pga and liv. that will now be halted as they move forward as part of the same enterprise. over the past year liv golf caused huge disruption in the men s game, with top players such as rory mcllroy and tiger woods boldly criticising it. but other players such as brooks koepka joined liv golf for large sums with the backing of the saudi arabia public investment fund. the bbc s golf correspondent iain carter believes it is the big investment being offered that has made this deal possible. players can get along fine when they are playing for the biggest prizes. money is the massive driver here, the likes of rory mcilroy and the establishment from the live setup, they used to be west friends. michael roy was a groomsmen at garcia s wedding. they now do not speak. but that sort of thing will be shoved to one side. what we wait to see is what shape men s golf t