vladimir putin of sending russian conscripts to their death in ukraine by forcing them to fight in the war. a british man freed after being held by russian backed forces in ukraine describes how he was stabbed by a russian officer and thought he was going to die in captivity. hello and welcome to bbc news. voting is under way in italy s general election. polling stations opened two hours ago. 0pinion polls taken during the campain suggest the country will get its first ever female prime minister, and its first far right leader since mussolini, in giorgia meloni. a win for her party would be expected to see the return of silvio berlusconi and matteo salvini to government, two men who ve had ties to russia s president putin. 0ur rome correspondent, mark lowen, reports. there are some things that italians agree on they ve got the best coffee and food and many they don t. politics is one of them, and it s at the fore today in a crunch election. it was sparked injuly when the
Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. Are the context on bbc news. Re up or are we down . The Us Central Bank the Federal Reserve reviews Interest Rates as investors cast doubt over an imminent rate cut. There are two women in iran whose names became synonymous with the fight for womens freedom. One of them is mahsa amini who died from her injuries sustained in police custody. The other is nika shakarami. A 16 Year Old Girl who disappeared just days after mahsa aminis death became public. Shortly after leaving a protest on the 20th September she called a friend to say she was being chased by security forces. Nine days later her body was dumped in a quiet tehran street. The authorities denied involvement in her death, claiming she took her own life. But a classified report seen by the bbc reveals the teenager was beaten to death by the agents who detained her. Reha kansara from bbc Eye Investigations has this report. And a warning, you may find the details
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are pointing in the opposite direction and i think the house will need to consider a much bigger package of sanctions and further measures of all kinds. the polish government measures of all kinds. the polish government has measures of all kinds. the polish government has said measures of all kinds. the polish government has said it measures of all kinds. the polish government has said it must - measures of all kinds. the polish government has said it must be i government has said it must be prepared to accept up to i million refugees displaced by conflict or fleeing persecution yet last week when asked about accepting ukrainian refugees, the foreign secretary said, we cannot make any commitments about any refugees at this stage. amid conflict we must always put support for people first so will the government today commit to accepting all ukrainian refugees who wish to come to the uk and also those persecuted in russia for their resistance to war and putin s regime? resistan