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thank you. it is just over a year since you were released from captivity after being held by the pro—russian forces in occupied donetsk. looking at you, your physical scars have healed. what about your mental scars? erm, definitely my physical scars have definitely healed or, like, im now a lot bigger compared to when i was released. im sure everyone would remember the images. i was a lot skinnier than i am now. but i think mentally, you know, im mentally better than i was, especiall...

aiden aslin, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it is just over a year since you were released from captivity after being held by the pro—russian forces in occupied donetsk. looking at you, your physical scars have healed. what about your mental scars? erm, definitely my physical scars have definitely healed or, like, im now a lot bigger compared to when i was released. im sure everyone would remember the images. i was a lot skinnier than i am now. but i think mentally, you know, im men...

everything and someone else�*s war? aden, that welcome to halep hardtalk. it isjust aden, that welcome to halep hardtalk. it is just over a year since you were released from captivity after being held by the russian forces in occupied have your mental scars heal like your physical scars? i have your mental scars heal like your physical scars?— your physical scars? i was a lot skinnier than _ your physical scars? i was a lot skinnier than i _ your physical scars? i was a lot skinnie...

as soon as possible. the launch prompted neighbours south korea and japan to briefly issue — then rescind — alerts to millions of residents. japan has condemned pyongyangs actions. south korea correspondentjean mckenzie has more from seoul. there was panic and confusion in seoul this morning as we awoke to the sound of this air raid siren which is extremely rare. and messages from loudspeakers telling people to prepare for an evacuation, only to be told 20 minutes later it was a mi...

one hand you had democrats and president biden�*s singh raise the debt ceiling without adding any caveats, without any spending cuts, just do a clean raise, but republicans were pushing for some spending cuts, and needed to find some sort of middle ground here and it seems as though theyd got to that point where it would raise the debt limit to 2025 which gets us to the next election cycle in exchange for cuts to things like tighter restrictions on some social safety net programmes l...

these were some of the celebrations on the streets of istanbul as mr erdogan celebrated with his supporters. but as well as dealing with a deeply divided country, he also has an economic crisis on his hands, with inflation — thats the rate at which prices rise — running at more than a0%. our chief international correspondent orla guerin reports. it was a long night of celebration for one side of turkey. supporters of president recep tayyip erdogan massed outside his presidential pa...

he tells me how armed russian soldiers in balaclavas came to his school that day, loaded him and 12 other children onto buses, and drove off with them. translation: to be honest, it was pretty scary. _ i didnt know where they were taking us. sasha then had no contact at all with his mum for six weeks. i ask how hard that was. translation: yes. to be honest, its too distressing to even remember. ukraine believes more than 19,000 children have been moved to russia since this war began. r...

we begin a warning from president biden that sanctions may be imposed on uganda after new anti—homosexuality legislation was signed into law by president yoweri musveeni. in a statement, joe biden said... in the uk, the government also condemned the new law, saying... homosexual acts were already illegal in uganda, but now anyone convicted of having gay sex faces life imprisonment. our north america correspondent david willis told me more about what president biden had to say on the ...

good evening and welcome to the bbc news at ten. moscow has been targeted by multiple drones in the biggest such attack since the invasion of ukraine. russian officials said eight had reached the capital causing some damage, but that most had been shot down. ukraine has denied direct involvement. president vladimir putin said the drones were aimed at civilian targets and that russia reserves the right to take the harshest possible measures against kyiv. our russia editor steve rosenber...

nomia, tell us some of the reaction you have been seeing to the vote having passed? fix, to the vote having passed? huge sigh of relief, really, by those members of the republican party and democratic party who were somewhere in the middle and glad this has now past this hurdle before it gets to the senate. the numbers are really interesting. 71 republicans opposed the bill. some are not surprising. 46 democrats also voted against. again, some of those members were not surprising. but...