Missing following the strike. Earlier this month, Russian Forces began a renewed offensive in the kharkiv region, in an attempt to break through a weakened ukrainian front line. Heres one of the shop workers explaining what happened. Translation i was at work in the Furniture Section when there was a first hit. Me and my colleague fell off our feet, went down and hit the floor. There was a second hit after which we were covered in rubble. We were covered in it, our faces, too. We started to dig our way up to the top. There, the Extinguishing System had started working. We grabbed a few people and an Emergency Service guy who was shopping saved us. He was with a girl that was also shopping and he helped us to get out through the window. Me, my colleague and another boy as well as a shopper and his girlfriend made it out. 0ur International Editor jeremy bowen is at the scene of the attack in kharkiv. Ive just been talking to the mayor. He said this happened about 4 oclock in the afternoo
but what of the launch itself? one senior minister said today that candidates were not involved, and even relevant secretaries of state were taken by surprise. we ll get a response from conservative home. israel faces international criticism over an air strike on rafah that is reported to have killed 45 civilians. the white house says the pictures are heartbeaking but will the president enforce the arms embargo he had threatened? and the nato secretary general calls for western weapons to be used inside russia. at a moment of high risk in the conflict, we ll discuss european defence and ukraine s use of arms beyond its borders. good evening. the labour leader keir starmer has today pledged to stop the chaos and rebuild the country in his first major speech of the election campaign. sir keir starmer appealed to undecided voters, and urged people to trust him to deliver economic stability and protect national security. rishi sunak, who was also campaigning today, dismisse
but now, data scientists and demographers, like my guest today, stephen shaw, say we re actually facing a disastrous spiral of de population. why have birth rates declined dramatically and how much does it matter? stephen shaw, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. let s start with a basic fact. the world s population is still rising. at some point later this century, it s going to get to about 9.7 billion. and we can see the immense strain that our planet is already under in terms of resources, in terms of fragile ecosystems. and yet you seem to be saying that we as a species need to focus on having more babies. why? well, just to be clear, the reason the world s population is still growing has got nothing to do with births. births peaked in the planet around ten years ago, at around 143 million. today, that s down to around 135. we re already past peak birth as a planet. so, why is, confusingly, this total population increasing? it s because, thankfully, people are
and high rollers competitors from around the world take part in the annual cheesey contest in gloucestershire. good evening. the labour leader has pledged to stop the chaos and rebuild the country in his first major speech of the election campaign. sir keir starmer appealed to undecided voters and urged people to trust him to deliver economic stability and protect national security. rishi sunak, also out campaigning today, dismissed the speech as waffle, saying it contained not a single plan for the future. we ll have more about the prime minister in a minute, but first, here s our political editor chris mason on keir starmer s speech. a man waiting, waiting for his moment, waiting, he hopes, to be prime minister. if you have ever wondered what this man is all about, today was his attempt to give you an answer. ., ., ., ,., answer. the leader of the labour pa , answer. the leader of the labour party. keir answer. the leader of the labour party, keir starmer. part
it is 7pm, good evening. i am nicky schiller. we are going to start of course with the general election campaign. the labour leader has pledged to stop the chaos and rebuild the country in his first major speech of the election campaign. sir keir starmer appealed to undecided voters and urged people to trust him to deliver economic stability and protect national security. rishi sunak, also out campaigning today, dismissed the speech as waffle , saying it contained not a single plan for the future . we ll have more about the prime minister shortly, but first here s our political editor chris mason on keir starmer s speech. a man waiting waiting for his moment, waiting, he hopes, to be prime minister. if you ve ever wondered what this man is all about, today was his attempt to give you an answer. the leader of the labour party, keir starmer. applause this, the village hall in lancing in west sussex, as sir keir spoke of his own background. if you re working class, you r