We know six people have been killed, including a mother and her ten year old daughter. Almost 70 have been injured and around a dozen are trapped under rubble. It is a familiar yet still horrifying sight where you have a residential block with a chunk missing smoldering debris and rescue teams frantically trying to save who they can. And when you have wave after wave of missile strikes, there is always a place in ukraine that is the most acute, acutely hit, and it is the turn of kiev. But alongside this, ukraine is desperately trying to seize the initiative in its counteroffensive, which is coming up to two months old. The gains it has made have been modest and they have been intensely contested. We are seeing an increase in fighting. It is true to say that they are concentrating men and machinery, notably in the southeastern and eastern parts of the front line. But we are getting comments from the kremlin alleging that the counteroffensive is not going according to plan, in their word
of staff at the homeland security department during the trump administration. welcome to the programme. the votes are being counted in israel, in the fifth election the country has staged in under four years. the voters have before them two coalitions the hard right bloc led by benjamin netanyahu, and a coalition of right, leftist and arab parties led by the current prime minister yair lapid. netanyahu, remember, is still facing charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, and yet, in spite of it all, the first exit polls that emerged in the last hour suggest he could be on the brink of a record sixth term. this is how the coverage began. showing netanyahu s likud party on 31 seats, against yair lapid predicted 2a seats. we bring in our middle east correspondent. let s bring in our middle east correspondent tom bateman. as says that the exit polls are a good start. how trustworthy of the exit polls in israel? exit polls in israel? they tend to be broadly exit polls in
Leader hugo chavez. Welcome to the miraflores president ial palace in caracas and a Special Edition of hardtalk. My guest is one of the most polarising leaders in the world today. President hugo chavez of venezuela is committed to socialism and the anti imperialist struggle. For decades fidel castro was the keeper of Latin Americas revolutionary flames. Well, now it is chavez. But are venezuelas people beginning to tire of their firebrand president . President hugo chavez, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. I want to begin by asking you about the venezuelan economy. You have a serious problem with inflation. You have a currency that has been devalued and your country is still in recession. Is it fair to say that socialism right now is not working . You had growth. But now you do not have growth. Youre the only latin American Country that this year, as well as last year, is not growing at all and is in recession. Is it possible, you say its possible, to have some form of capitali
the government is considering. the justice secretary alex scott chalk who is meeting kevin hollinger rake and launched today looking at various legal options, but you are right, the most radical, innovative, whatever word you want to use, end of the spectrum under consideration is the possibility the government or parliament, really, could pass a law which would just say all of the postmasters convicted for fraud or false accounting or any of the range of offences of this issue are just to have their convictions quashed by one act of parliament and procedurally, that will be very simple. procedurally, that will be very simle. . . , ., , simple. parliament makes low in this count . simple. parliament makes low in this country. constitutionally simple. parliament makes low in this country. constitutionally it simple. parliament makes low in this country. constitutionally it might - country. constitutionally it might be a little dicey and you might have some people say that is infring
us more about that? alex chalk, the justice secretary, is meeting kevin l justice secretary, is meeting kevin hollinrake, a business minister, today, with government lawyers to look at various legal options the government has. the most radical, innovative, whatever word you want to use, and of the spectrum under consideration, we think, is the possibility that the government, or parliament, really, could pass a law which could say, all of the postmasters convicted for fraud or false accounting or any of the range of offences of this issue, just have their convictions quashed by one act of parliament. and procedurally, that would be very simple. parliament makes low in this country. constitutionally it might be a little dicey. you might have some people are saying that is infringing on the rule of law. infringing on the independence of thejudiciary, setting a precedent that parliament can set aside the rulings of the court. the fact that this is even being entertained gives you a sense