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hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. the russian ministry of defence says its troops have left the strategic town of lemann, in eastern ukraine. a ministry spokesman was quoted by russian news agencies as saying the withdrawal was carried out because of a threat of encirclement. earlier, the ukrainian military said its troops were inside the town. lyman was a key strategic target used by russia as a major logistics hub and sits in the donetsk region which ...

hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. the russian ministry of defence says its troops have left the strategic town of lyman, in eastern ukraine. a ministry spokesman was quoted by russian news agencies as saying the withdrawal was carried out because of a threat of encirclement. earlier, the ukrainian military said its troops were inside the town. lyman was a key strategic target, used by russia as a major logistics hub, and sits in the donetsk region which...

the russian ministry of defence says its troops have left the strategic town of lyman in eastern ukraine. a ministry spokesman said the withdrawal was carried out because of a threat of encirclement. earlier, the ukrainian military said its troops were inside the town. lyman was a key strategic target, used by russia as a major logistics hub — and sits in the donetsk region which the government in moscow has just declared to be a part of russia. video footage shared online shows ukra...

at the australian open — but defending champion rafael nadal heads home after his dramatic second round exit. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. its newsday. welcome to newsday. its 7am in singapore, and 1am in ukraine — where the government says its suffered its biggest loss of the war, when the three principal figures in the interior ministry were killed after their helicopter crashed in kyiv. interior minister denys monastyrskiy died with his deputy, and the de...

the bbc chairmans appointment. at an emotional meeting in new zealand, jacinda ardern hands over the leadership of her party — and country — to chris hipkins. the uk business secretary urges energy suppliers to stop moving vulnerable customers onto more expensive prepayment metres. millions around the world gather to celebrate the lunar new year. in china the tradition of giving remains strong. youre watching bbc news. now its time for global questions. welcome to global questions ...

welcome to hardtalk i am stephen sackur. like a gambler desperate to reverse a losing streak, vladimir putin is raising the stakes as he loses ground in ukraine. he has ordered a partial mobilisation for this war that he claims is not a war and is bringing up his threats to go nuclear if necessary. what does this mean for ukraine and the support it relies on in the west? my guest is ivanna klympush—tsintsadze, chair of the ukrainian parliament eu integration committee. can putins thr...

event, control of the house of representatives is all but gone. democrats can feel the house seats slipping through their fingers, as some experts project republicans could pick up maybe even 30 seats, and they only need five to win back the majority. some in the democratic party are already performing free autopsies. >> sometimes people want to just not feel as if they are walking on egg shells. and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy. >> i am worried about the level of v...

pre-autopsies. >> sometimes, people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells, and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy. >> i am worried about the level of voter turnout among young people, working people, who will be voting democratic. i think again, with democrats have got to do is contrasts their economic plan with the republican. >> tonight, we look into the crystal ball to see what a republican that out of representatives might actually look like. the h...

environmental challenges. and for copp 27 agreement, help developing nations be enough to avert climate catastrophe. that is global questions sri lanka, surviving climate change. as it marks 75 years of independence from britain. i have a panel from here and sri lanka were going to be answering questions from my audience here. ive got a panel from here in sri lanka who are going to be asking questions from my audience here. let me tell you whos in the hot seat for this edition of globa...

we begin in china where weve just had a slew of data that shows how deep the impact of both the pandemic and its demographics is having on society and the economy. data from the national bureau of statistics shows chinas economy grew by 2.9% year—on—year for the last three months of 2022. that beat expectations — reuters expected the economy to grow byjust1.8%. for the full year growth came in at 3% — far below chinas official target of 5.5%. excluding the year covid hit in 202...