down outside the city, and blamed ukraine for the attack. an adviser to president volodymyr zelensky has denied any ukrainian responsibility. mykhailo podolyak was asked about the strikes while appearing on a breakfast television show. we have nothing to do with this, he said, but added that kyiv is watching with pleasure and forecast an increasing number of attacks . moscow is more than a70 km from ukraine. in moscow, our russia editor steve rosenberg heard the explosions. well, at 6:21; this morning ijotted down the time i heard an explosion in the distance and the windows of my home shook. than half an hour later, i heard another explosion. and i checked on social media and there was a lot of chat, a lot of discussion from muscovites and people living just outside the capital, who d heard blasts, too. very quickly, it became apparent there had been some kind of drone attack. and that was confirmed pretty quickly by the moscow mayor, sergey sobyanin, who said there h
than half an hour later, i heard another explosion. and i checked on social media and there was a lot of chat, a lot of discussion from muscovites and people living just outside the capital, who d heard blasts, too. very quickly, it became apparent there had been some kind of drone attack. and that was confirmed pretty quickly by the moscow mayor, sergey sobyanin, who said there had been a drone attack. he said that several buildings in the capital had received minor damage. he said there were no serious injuries. and then the governor of moscow region so the area just outside the city he also confirmed there had been a drone attack and said that russian air defences had shot down several drones. how many drones are we talking about here? well, the russian defence ministry a short while ago issued a statement, saying there had been what it called a terrorist drone attack , organised by the ukrainian authorities on moscow. it said that eight drones were used in this attac
we look at the legacy that coalition troops are set to leave when they withdraw forces next year. and moscow votes for a new mayor. a clear victory for the acting chief and aleksey navalny trailing well behind. it s the first mayoral election in nearly a decade. good morning, this is the weekly from r.t. it s after 1:00 a.m. now. the week top stories, it s been a tough week for u.s. secretary of state john kerry. he has been trying to convince the european union to get onboard with the strike on syria over the alleged use of chemical weapons. kerry presented no new evidence against the syrian government and very few countries are willing to rush into action without u.n. approval. obama has made no final decision on whether to strike. that s an apparent turnaround from last week. so far turkey and france have been first in line to back the united states against syria, but president barack obama wasn t able to change the minds of other world leaders at the g-20 summit. tough ac
accelerates very fast, it decelerates much more slowly. the uk is told not to expect its lockdown to be relaxed yet, despite hopes that deaths from the virus are slowing. meanwhile in france, president macron announces schools will begin to reopen in mid may and says people will gradually be able to return to work. welcome. as countries around the world count the cost of the coronavirus pandemic in human lives and economic damage, there s increased pressure on governments to ease some of the restrictions in place. in the uk, the government is warning that the country is still not past the peak of the coronavirus emergency, and the number of deaths is expected to increase further this week before they may start to plateau. we ll have more updates from the uk in a moment but first let s go to the us. where the number of coronavirus deaths in the state of new york has risen to more then 10,000. that s almost half of all deaths so far across the country. this is the latest fr