than half an hour later, i heard another explosion. and i checked on social media and there was a lot of chat, a lot of discussion from muscovites and people living just outside the capital, who d heard blasts, too. very quickly, it became apparent there had been some kind of drone attack. and that was confirmed pretty quickly by the moscow mayor, sergey sobyanin, who said there had been a drone attack. he said that several buildings in the capital had received minor damage. he said there were no serious injuries. and then the governor of moscow region so the area just outside the city he also confirmed there had been a drone attack and said that russian air defences had shot down several drones. how many drones are we talking about here? well, the russian defence ministry a short while ago issued a statement, saying there had been what it called a terrorist drone attack , organised by the ukrainian authorities on moscow. it said that eight drones were used in this attac
the leader of hamas, ismail haniyeh, has arrived in cairo for talks on a fresh ceasefire. israel s president has said his country is now ready for what he calls another humanitarian pause . nearly 20 thousand people are now reported to have been killed in gaza. 1,200 were killed and 240 taken hostage when hamas attacked israel on the 7th of october. the un security council is about to start discussing a new draft of a gaza resolution and a vote could take place any minute now. the white house has just said discussions for a humanitarian pause are quote very serious . it s all about the wording of the text. it s all about the wording. the draft is very long, but the key section talks of extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the gaza strip for a sufficient number of days to enable full, rapid, safe, and unhindered humanitarian access . it remains to be seen if the wording is now acceptable to the united states. in the past half hour, the us secretary of state
has been released while under investigation. he was detained on thursday on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving. now on bbc news it s time for talking business. hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let s go and take a look at what s on the show. eyeing up africa as the west competes with china, when of an when of an african when of an african country when of an african country is when of an african country is leading the way in renewable energy but connection itself and i am fully dependent on fossil fuels to being able to export clean energy to europe as we tackle climate change because mac is an ambitious plan so i m going to be discussing this with easily over there. big boss of web africa s largest renewable energy companies, energy et from the world bank and a leading moroccan environmental campaigner. also on the show, i m going to sit down with a moroccan government minister tasked with the mighty
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