the last coup that took place in 2010 was a relatively good coup. it removed a president who had decided he wanted to stay on for a third term, probably indefinitely in the military, intervened, removed him, and then managed a transition to civilian rule. this coup is exactly the opposite. there was a duly elected, democratically, popularly chosen president who has been removed by the military, it seems primarily for their own individual interest. so the reaction from both african countries and western countries is not entirely surprising. but there s a dilemma because, if western countries come down very heavily on the new regime, there is a risk that they will turn to moscow. they will look to wagner to come in and protect them. but not to do that encourages further coups in other countries. and the key factor is what african neighbours of niger are doing. and there, the african union, as your correspondent said, has been very tough and said, we must restore civilian rule i
but hospitality businesses say they re still feeling the impact. every time there is a strike day, we do see trade fall off a cliff in certain parts of the country, certainly towns and city centres. you know, the last week we ve had sort of three strike days that affect the rail. we ve had an overtime ban during the course of that week. we know that we ve lost around £340 million worth of sales across the uk. now it s getting better. we are seeing more trade coming through and being sustained, but it s still down at least 30 to 40% each time we have a strike day and cumulatively over the course of the year, that s more than 5.5 billion of sales that the industry has lost. right now, there aren t any more full strikes in the diary, and unions have to give two weeks notice of action. but further walkouts are very possible. and after today s strike by rail workers in the rmt, the train drivers union aslef has two more overtime bans coming up at 15 operators from this monday unt
were on the current situation there. the last coup that took place in 2010 was a relatively good coup. it removed a president who had decided he wanted to stay on for a third term, probably indefinitely in the military, intervened, removed him, and then managed a transition to civilian rule. this coup is exactly the opposite. there was a duly elected, democratically, popularly chosen president who has been removed by the military, it seems primarily for their own individual interest. so the reaction from both african countries and western countries is not entirely surprising. but there s a dilemma because, if western countries come down very heavily on the new regime, there is a risk that they will turn to moscow. they will look to wagner to come in and protect them. but not to do that encourages further coups in other countries. and the key factor is what african neighbours of niger are doing. and there, the african union, as your correspondent said, has been very tough and
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Are you looking forward to the day that you can both march together? yes, because it will mean the war is over and we can return to some sort of normality in our lives. why was it important that liverpool played host to kyiv pride this year? i think when we stepped in to do eurovision we found that the reception that we got from the country about hosting it on behalf of ukraine was really positive. so planning for pride wasjust going on as normal anyway, so planning for pryde wasjust going on as normal anyway, and it was suggested to us that at that point we do a joint pryde. the logistics were tricky, but we have managed to do it today. while eurovision may have united liverpool and ukraine in music, today, pride has united them in protest. josh parry, bbc news, liverpool.