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Since a brutal conflict began in ethiopias northern tigray region. since then a civil war has left hundreds of thousands dead, almost five million displaced, and a population on the brink of starvation. the bbc is the first international broadcaster to obtain footage from inside the area since august. our senior africa correspondent anne soy reports. its a major breakthrough, ethiopias government has called it monumental. rebels have agreed to disarm. but there is some level of caution. this mom...

Worry about those kinds of provocations, as they north koreans seem to be tolerating more risk, as we have seen with the mr abbott landed 50 kilometres of the south korean coast service is heading in a very dangerous direction, in my assessment. thanks forjoining us with your thoughts. after ten days of peace talks — a surprise deal has been reached between the government of ethiopia and rebel forces in tigray for a permanent cessation of hostilities. the african unions chief mediator — the ...

Truce is, is it for the announcement is it going be real? if the trucks are able to come to tigray that will be a main change that will be really welcomed by the tigrayans, if not, then it will last for months and then the war will start again, because the fighting going on in tigray, days before this truce was signed, so the situation on the ground is still very complicated.- ground is still very complicated. ground is still very comlicated. �* , , complicated. and very tense i imagine. _ com...

Braverman of discriminating against albanians to excuse policy failures in the migration crisis. a damning report today says hundreds of recruits to the police force in england and wales are joining recruits to the police force in england and wales arejoining up when they should have failed vetting two former procedures. two former metropolitan police officers have been sentenced to 12 weeks imprisonment for sharing grossly offensive messages in a whatsapp group chat with wayne couzens before he...

There was a legal duty to ensure these records were erased. with no records, what proof is there? another hurdle then for lgbt+ veterans seeking compensation for the harm they suffered. angus crawford, bbc news. later today people will gather at the victoria and albert museum in london and ive been discussing channel 4 and its history with maggie brown, media historian, who has been tasked with looking back at the history of the public broadcaster and she explains to me what made the channel, in...

Remember it as well, they had some very strange programmes, but it has settled down over 40 years to still be i think a very interesting broadcaster and what i found, as a historian, and probably this is one useful thing i can add to the debate, what i found as ive studied and ive written two books about it and ive written two books about it and ive written two books about it and i basically covered 40 years is that it and i basically covered 40 years is thatitis and i basically covered 40 years...

Fourth broadcaster to come on air and funded by itv companies almost at the beginning but it had this special duty. it has no studios and is a very lightly staffed organisation and it had to commission its programmes from outside, and the other thing is that it is a quirky form of public service broadcasting. its not supposed to be like the bbc but is expected to deliver what we might call public good, for example the hour long seven oclock news is a good example but there are others, and it is ...

Continuing with its nuclear programme. we know it has been refining some of its missiles to make them nuclear capable and it is widely expected to prepare to test a nuclear weapon for the first time in five years. now, today marks channel 4s 40th anniversary! a celebration tempered by the fact that the broadcaster is under threat of privatisation. later today, some of the biggest names in british media are expected to gather at the victoria and albert museum in london to mark the ocassion. taske...

70s, and they all kind of exploded, but the first decade, you can remember and i remember it too, they had some very strange programmes as well, but it settled down over 40 years to still be, i think, a very interesting broadcaster and what i found as a historian, and this is one useful thing i can add to the debate, what i found it as i have studied and written two books about it and i basically covered it for 40 years, that its very adaptable and because it has this small, no more than 1000 pe...

People in Hungary are grappling with the closure of many public buildings and services that have shut their doors temporarily because of the fast-rising cost of energy.