Diplomatic efforts to find a resolution to the crisis have stepped up a gear with a warning from washington. Speaking to the bbc, the us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken has voiced his concern that nigersjunta might turn to the Russian Mercenary Group wagner for help. The group is active in neighbouring countries and its leader has welcomed the takeover. The coup leaders are currently Standing Firm against calls to restore democratic rule. Heres what mr blinken had to say about wagner a little earlier for sure we have concerns when we see Something Like the wagner group possibly manifesting itself in different parts of the sahel. And here is why we are concerned. Because every single place that this group, wagner group has gone, death, destruction and exploitation have followed. Insecurity has gone up, not down. It has not been a response to the needs of the countries in question for greater security. I think what happened and what continues to happen in niger was not instigated by ru
little bit of cloud off the north sea, particularly into central and eastern england over thursday. not necessarily sunny all the time was that the outlook for the next few days, beautifully glasgow and belfast. plymouth, sunshine. the tourist board will be thanking me. and in cambridge it s not looking bad at all. temperatures up to the low 20s. we are all off to plymouth! thanks, tomasz. that s it. there s more analysis of the day s main stories on newsnight with kirsty wark, just getting under way over on bbc two. but the news continues here on bbc one, as wejoin our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. have a very good night. the city of bakhmut we have a special report from another besieged town in the same province. and we ll try to get to the truth of russian claims that it has stopped a ukrainian incursion into the russia area of belgorod, killing seventy so called insurgents. we ll bejoined by a ukranian mp and a senior fellow at th
of the un charter. a crime has been committed against ukraine and we demand just punishment. new york state s attorney general files a civil lawsuit against donald trump and three of his children forfraud. and we have a special report from central china the father of the british teenager who took around live up teenager who took around live up to viewing harmful content on line tells an inquest how shocked he was after she died to discover the hideous material she had been looking it. and we have a special report from central china as the government continues with its zero covid strategy. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. we begin in russia where a human rights group says 1,300 people have been arrested after taking part in protests against president putin s announced partial mobilisation of military reservists. up to 300,000 russians could be called up to fight in ukraine, the first mobilisation of civilians since world war ii. russia has bee
at least 10 people have been killed following another day of protests in iran over the death of a young woman in custody. the father of the british teenager who took her own life after viewing harmful content online tells an inquest how shocked he was after she died to discover the hideous material she d been looking at. and we have a special report from central china as the government continues with its zero covid strategy. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president volodymyr zelensky of ukraine has received a standing ovation after addressing the united nations general assembly in new york. in a pre recorded video speech delivered in english, mr zelensky said russia deserved to be punished for stealing ukrainian territory and murdering civilians. barbara plett reports. mr zelenskyy got a standing ovation, strong support was shown for his appearance, and he had to have a special he was the only leader he was able to give a video address, because