and little ceremony, the prince and princess of wales make their first official visit to the principality. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the president of the european commission has said sabotage was the cause of rare gas leaks in two major pipelines connecting russia and europe. ursula von der leyen has warned of the strongest possible response if active european energy insfrastructure is attacked. earlier, ukraine accused russia of causing the leaks in what it described as a terrorist attack . nordstream 1 and 2, which carry supplies under the baltic sea, are not currently operational, but do still contain gas. here s our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. nordstream correspondent, james landale. one and nord streé 2 nordstream one and nord stream 2 are due to pipelines that ring gas from russia to germany. that bring gas. they are the largest pipelines of their kind in the world. but look at this, significant disturbance to the
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the president of the european commission has said rare gas leaks in two major pipelines connecting russia and europe were the result of sabotage. ursula von der leyen has warned of the strongest possible response if active european energy infrastructure is attacked. earlier, ukraine accused russia of causing the leaks in what it described as a terrorist attack . here s our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. nord stream 1 and nord stream 2 are huge pipelines that bring gas from russia to germany, 700 miles along under the baltic. they are the largest pipelines of their kind in the world. but look at this, significant disturbance to the sea near denmark, caused by leaking gas, it is thought. the danish military say this area of turbulence was more than half a mile wide and shipping is being kept out of the area. the gas is leaking here near a danish island, bornholm, it is thought there are a couple of le
on brazil s streets. russia says it will veto any un security council resolution condemning its self styled referendums in occupied regions of ukraine. the us intends to bring a draft resolution to a vote in the coming days. earlier, the us secretary of state antony blinken said the west would never acknowledge what he called bogus referendums. moscow claims almost total support in the vote onjoining russia. our russia editor, steve rosenberg, considers what these votes will mean and how that will affect (tx next) the russia ukraine conflict. first, i want to stress the key point here that these so called referendums were not real referendums, they were hastily arranged, kremlin created, kremlin controlled events designed to pave the way to russian annexation of huge swathes of ukrainian territory. we may well see this happen later this week. i expect at some point this week, russia will come out and say, right, this land is now ours, even in the absence of international
the result of sabotage. the uk must prepare for a big wave of flu this winter, say health experts, as people are urged to get flu and covid vaccines. and the spotlight is on glasgow and liverpool, as they vie to host next year s eurovision song contest. and coming up on the bbc news channel, england s women will play their first ever stand alone fixture at twickenham next year. theirfinal six nations match against france will take place at rugby hq. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the bank of england has made a surprise intervention to try to calm the financial markets, by launching a temporary uk government bond buying programme. it s an attempt to get long term borrowing costs down. they had been. since last week s mini budget. the emergency move is to stave off what the bank said was a material risk to the country s financial stability , given the turmoil that s followed friday s mini budget. the bank said its intervention was to restore orderly market