a low profile after his defeat in brazil s presidential election. police in india arrest nine people in connection with the collapse of a bridge in gujarat, in which at least 144 people died. an important date in the us political calendar approaches we ll assess the current political mood. with a week until the us elections, i m in the hometown of presidentjoe biden in pennsylvania. it s 8am in singapore, and 2am in ukraine, where the government there says power and water supplies across the country have been badly hit after russia launched a wave of missile attacks across the country. in the capital kyiv, the mayor says 4 out of 5 people have been without running water. ukraine says russia fired at least 50 missiles but it was able to shoot most of them down. our international editor jeremy bowen has spent the last week travelling through ukraine, from the frontline battlefields of the donbas to the villages in kherson, where some of russia s best troops are concentrated,
they said those arrested included employees of a private company involved in the maintenance and management of the bridge. now on bbc news, it s stephen sackur in north macedonia with hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur and today i m in skopje, north macedonia, a land subject to countless wars and conquests going back to the time of alexander the great. this young nation was, of course, a part of the former yugoslavia. now it s desperate to get into the european union, but progress is painfully slow. my guest today is prime minister dimitar kovacevski. now he knows that europe s attention right now is fully focused on the war in ukraine. but how real is the potential for new instability here in the balkans? prime minister dimitar kovacevski, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for coming to north macedonia, to skopje, and to the government. it is a great pleasure to be in skopje. but mr prime minister, it strikes me you have a problem. you in north macedoni
the headlines will follow at the top of the hour after this feature programme. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur and today i m in skopje, north macedonia, a land subject to countless wars and conquests going back to the time of alexander the great. this young nation was, of course, a part of the former yugoslavia. now it s desperate to get into the european union, but progress is painfully slow. my guest today is prime minister dimitar kovacevski. now he knows that europe s attention right now is fully focused on the war in ukraine. but how real is the potential for new instability here in the balkans? prime minister dimitar kovacevski, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for coming to north macedonia, to skopje, and to the government. it is a great pleasure to be in skopje. but mr prime minister, it strikes me you have a problem. you in north macedonia definitely want to be in the european union. it is still not clear whether the european union truly wants you. do
were crushed to death on saturday in seoul. the president, yoon suk yeol, has vowed a full investigation into one of the country s worst ever disasters. now on bbc news hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur and today i m in skopje, north macedonia, a land subject to countless wars and conquests going back to the time of alexander the great. this young nation was, of course, a part of the former yugoslavia. now it s desperate to get into the european union, but progress is painfully slow. my guest today is prime minister dimitar kovacevski. now he knows that europe s attention right now is fully focused on the war in ukraine. but how real is the potential for new instability here in the balkans? prime minister dimitar kovacevski, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for coming to north macedonia, to skopje, and to the government. it is a great pleasure to be in skopje. but mr prime minister, it strikes me you have a problem. you in north macedonia definitely
Saturday after wrangling over procedures and inspections of the aid trucks. All of this taking place as the bombardment over the gaza strip has intensified on behalf of israel and more than a Million People in gaza have been displaced, moving to the south of the city. Excuse me, to the south of gaza. We heard recently from the chief Military Spokesperson for the idf. Rear admiral Daniel Hagari has updated the number of hostages inside gaza as 222. Thats an increase in the number taken on the 7th Of October following the unprecedented attack inside israel in which moo people unprecedented attack inside israel in which m00 people were massacred. This comes as the United States says israel has agreed to continue a flow of aid into gaza as it intensifies its aerial bombardment of the gaza strip. The United Nations has been warning of a humanitarian catastrophe. There are hundreds of aid trucks on the border although we are hearing initial reports of a third convoy of limited trucks being a