Ambassador, thank you very much forjoining us here in our studio. Military coup leaders in niger have on monday arrested two more cabinet ministers, as well as the head of the governing party. What do you make of these latest developments . I mean, that shows that thejunta has no intention to respect human rights as he started by claiming that he will do that. And again, i mean, this coup has really no reason whatsoever. There was no political tension. There is no situation, Security Situation that is worsening as they claimed, that just faints. The Security Situation is improving in our country. You know, you accept to power by the ballot, not by the bullets. And we have elected a legitimate president , mohamed bazoum, and we want him to be restored, like all the International Community echo us, the regional body, the african union, the United States of america, france, all our european union, all are asking them just to give back power to preseidnt bazoum. You mentioned aikawa. I do
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 words, saying that all
a night time drone attack has hit russia, according to moscow mayor sergei sobyanin. a commercial building that was struck over the weekend damaging the facade of the tower block was struck again, he said. sobyanim added that several other drones were downed by air defence systems. this happened after officials in ukraine s second largest city 7 kharkiv 7 say drone strikes destroyed two floors of a college dormitory there and also hit the city s centre. they say one person has been injured. this follows an earlier stike that killed at least six people in the hometown of ukraine s president, volodymyr zelensky. it partially destroyed a residential block. zelensky has called the strike an act of terrorism . our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse has more on this attack. so we re hearing now that the search has now finished in the central city of president zelensky s hometown after russian missile struck overnight. we know six people
thank you. the reuters news agency is reporting a drone strike in central moscow. it says it hit a high rise building with a second drone downed in the city s suburbs. it happened after officials in ukraine s second largest city ? kharkiv ? say drone strikes destroyed two floors of a college dormitory there and also hit the city s centre. they say one person has been injured. at least six people were killed in a separate strike on president volodymyr zelensky s hometown. it partially destroyed a residential block. zelensky has called the strike an act of terrorism. meanwhile, after a year and a half of bloodshed, the battle for bakhmut shows no sign of ending.the city holds little strategic value, but it holds great symbolic value for both sides, especially as ukraine pushes on with its counter offensive. the bbc has been given exclusive access to a team of elite snipers, named the ghosts of bakhmut, conducting night raids close to the city. our defence correspondent jonathan bealejoin