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behaviour by four women. welcome to bbc news. it is a day of two important summits, with the war in ukraine being the common theme. at the g7 gathering injapan, world leaders met to discuss a new round of sanctions against russia while, at the arab league meeting in saudi arabia, president zelensky made a surprise visit, urging those attending to support ukraine. he told the gathering injeddah that, on this, the asoth day of the war, the world needed to fight the virus of aggression fr...

pastors and politicians good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. nurses are likely to take their first ever national strike action according to their union. the royal college of nursing is still counting ballot papers returned by its 300,000 members but says those counted so far suggest support for strike action, possibly before christmas. the rcn wants a 5% pay increase above the rate of inflation. nurses working in accident & emergency and critical care would be exempted from striking...

mid-2022 from its peak of 1.9% in mid—2022 tojust 3.1% from its peak of 1.9% in mid—2022 to just 3.1% in november. that is above the beds target of 2% and jerome beds target of 2% and jerome powell cautioned the committee had not ruled out raising rates again in the future. still, wall street, all three markets finished higher and the dow jones industrial average jumped more than 500 points to a record close. this is the third time in a row after all that central bank decided again...

tens of thousands of people have been killed, and millions are in dire need of basic necessities like food, water, and shelter. the un estimates that, since the start of the conflict, more than 9 million people have fled their homes — with 24.8 million people in need of assistance. the un says sudan is the worlds worst internal displacement crisis. this week, the uns refugee chief visited sudans displacement camps where over a million sudanese have sought shelter because of the fight...