a bail answer. lanka begins talks with the i m f on how to address soaring food prices and the fuel shortage in sport. a decision that sent shock waves around the sporting world, so means governing body rights to ban transgender cleats from a neat women s events. ah, welcome to the program in belgium. protests are being held against the rising cost of living. it s the latest and biggest day of action planned by labor unions. they re demanding better pay more talks on salaries and working conditions and greater investment in the public sector. tens of thousands of people are expected on the streets and brussels airport cancelled all departure flights and spring instead, boss and who s in the belgian capital and stepped. this seems to be a reflection of what happened in england just a few days ago. there s deep frustration growing across europe about the cost of living. i absolutely. these are costs are really rapidly increasing. people are really struggling on it. so quite an
ah, the remains of the congo leads freedom fighter police lumber, are returned to his family more than 60 years after his assassination. answering we re swimming worlds, governing body bars, many transgender athletes from taking part in top competitions for women. ah, wanting to throw on tens of thousands of people on the streets of brussels, demanding help to cope with the rising cost of living is the latest and biggest day of action planned by labor unions. they are calling for better pay and working conditions and more investment in the public sector. and they say both the government and the private sector need to step in. this is what i came loose to defend purchasing, howard the citizens because demonstrate is the only way to make the change. we cannot cope and know even with 2 salaries as we will have am a medical teacher. both of us are working. we cannot get our head above water. you must think these are purchasing power. however your lab, your life is becoming more a
decision on ukraine s application for canada and status. also coming up french voters deliver a staging blow to president minute while call just weeks after he was re elected, he loses his absolute majority and parliament as leftist and far right party surge . placing his reform agenda in doubt with the only known remains of a congolese independence hero, finally returned home. former colonial power belgium hands over a single tooth belonging to patrice, wilma, more than 6 decades after he was assassinated. ah, i m nicole really. it s good to have you with us. ukrainian president, bullard, and we are the lensky says, other european countries should brace for potentially hostile activity for moscow. he s, as ukraine faces a historic week, as it awaits a landmark decision from e. u. leaders on its bed for candidates status, but that this could from russia to intensify its aggression against ukraine and its western supporters. a russian missile plunged into ukrainian soil in the
history is the countries the 1st left us later. and russia threatened to retaliate after lithuanian bars some route trans transit to moscow s baltic. sea exclaim of kellen in brand ah, we begin the program with breaking news is rouse prime minister and if talley bennett and foreign minister yet lapierre have agreed to dissolve parliament. the move is expected to force the country s 5th election in less than 3 and a half years. that period we ll take the roll of inch from prime minister until the poles. for more on this let s bring in bernard smith, who joins us live from west jerusalem. bernard talk us through the details of what s happened. this coalition government has been stumbling along for the last few weeks. it s a miracle in many israelis, eyes that is lasted as long as it has one year. it was the strangest coalition government, israel s ever seen, a combination of parties on the far right the right, the left. and the 1st time that palestinian israelis had been involv
our other main stories: swimming s world governing body effectively bans transgender competitors from elite women s events. we have to protect the rights of all our athletes to compete but we also have to protect competitive fairness. irefill but we also have to protect competitive fairness. will it be farewell competitive fairness. will it be farewell to competitive fairness. will it be farewell to the - competitive fairness. will it be farewell to the queen? l whyjamaica is pushing ahead with plans to become a republic. voice-over: live voice over: live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newday. welcome to the programme. it s eight in the morning in singapore, and 7pm in colombia where the former guerrilla rebel, gustavo petro, has become the country s first left wing president after winning a second mr petro won 51% of vote, to 47% for his right wing opponent, rodolfo hernandez. mr petro described the result as a day ofjoy for the colombian people.