after talks in brussels. at the same summit, leaders agreed to open membership talks with ukraine and moldova and to grant candidate status to the country of georgia. all three nations have been pushing to join the alliance. ukraine s president, volodymyr zelensky, called the decision a victory for ukraine . the president of the european council charles michel said age talks would continue next year. he said important progress had been achieved at the summit. tonight we sent a very achieved at the summit. tonight we sent a very powerful - achieved at the summit. tonight we sent a very powerful signal i we sent a very powerful signal to the european citizens, a very powerful signal to the ukrainian citizens because we have decided to grant status to georgia to open negotiations with ukraine, and with moldova to make a very important step with bosnia and herzegovina, because we will open the decisions and a report will be issued by the commission in the coming weeks to make
welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in china where authorities have stopped issuing short term visas to individuals from south korea and japan, in retaliation for covid restrictions imposed on chinese travellers. inside the country, state media are downplaying risks from the virus. officials from several major cities and provinces have said the infection rates are past their peak and officials in beijing say it s discriminatory to single out chinese travellers. translation: regrettably, some countries disregard science and their own covid situation, they are bent on imposing restrictions on china. china firmly reject this and will take reciprocal measures, we called the relevant countries to base their measures on facts and science and take proportionate measures and not use this to engage in political manipulations. we can now speak to the travel writer and blogger, steve rohan, who worked in china for six years. he joins
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and then i remember waking up and knowing that something had penetrated me. but i felt, like, violated. i.i felt really violated. do you feel like that potentially someone had intercourse with you in any way? yes. i would say that i could feel physically that something had. has taken place? yeah. it s jade, wasn t it? jade, yeah. right, what we re going to have to do now, jade, is we have to go through. report this as what we call rape. isabelle is my best friend. she has been with me kind of through absolutely everything. yeah, growing up, we were. ..inseparable. i don t know. she always brings out the best in me, i think. she s just genuinely bloody lush. jade is, like, a very confident person. she has a super strong moral compass. she s really funny. yeah, we re basically sisters. so, i mean, there were some pictures that. ..me and belle had taken at the night. it feels really weird, actually, looking back and just thinking my whole life was literally turned upside down af