i think in the premier league i think i m right that they haven t only taken ten points in the last 30. we have got to make sure that we are a brighton or brentford for performance against them, who can get a result against them. arsenal captain martin odegaard says it s going to be very difficult for his side to win the title after losing 3 0 at home to brighton. a result effectively killing off arsenal s challenge for a first league title in nearly 20 years. it leaves the top of the premier league looking like this, with the gunners four points behind leaders manchester city, having played a game more. while not mathematically over city could become champions without playing on saturday if arsenal lose at nottingham forest. city then play chelsea on sunday. the word bottle it annoys me to be honest because it really did raise what arsenal has done this season. anyone would have taken up for and never mind finishing second in going all the way to the end of the seaso
to fly to beijing. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for president zelensky: unspun world special. this is just one very small part of all the destruction that russia has visited on ukraine during the past year. we are only 18 miles from kyiv here, the closest the russian troops came to the capital before they were thrown back. one man has personified ukraine s resistance to the russian onslaught. an actor who used to play the part of ukraine s president in a television soap opera, and then ran for the job for real, and won, only to find last february, he had to play a new role the leader of a country that was fighting for its very existence. president volodymyr zelensky. mr president, a year ago, would you have thought that you would be sitting here, still president, and the war would still be going on? but did you think you would survive? we are going to go back to february of 2022. these are russian vehicles building up towards the invasion, in this case. helicopte
who remains in a critical condition in hospital. millions of nigerians have been voting in their country s most competitive election since military rule ended there more than two decades ago. china s plans for peace in ukraine cause ripples around the world president zelensky says he wants to hear more and the leader of russia s key ally belarus announces plans to fly to beijing. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for talking business. hello, everybody. a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron hazelhurst. with me, aaron heslehurst. let s go and take a look at what s on the show. counting the cost of war as ukraine marks a year since the invasion, we re going to take a look at the toll it s taken on the economy. ukraine s vast farms were feeding the world, but the country is now reliant on billions of dollars of help just to get through every month. ukraine s finance minister tells me how he s kept the economy functioning despite the missiles and
warnings in coastal areas. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for ukraine: a year on the frontlines. over the past 30 years or so, i ve covered conflicts in the middle east, in the balkans, and in africa, but this is unlike anything that i have ever known. this is a war that we did not expect to see in europe in our time. there was a sense that the security architecture that we knew, the safety, the security, that we thought we had since the end of the cold war, that was gone. i was here injanuary and february of last year counting down to the invasion. i was sure it would come, but it turned out to be even worse than i expected. we were in mariupol, which is a port city in the east. it s only 30 miles from the russian border. but inside the city, there was this surreal atmosphere of calm. and i remember we went to film in a supermarket. there was no panic buying. the shelves were full. we met a lady called tatiana, who was 7a, and very feisty. and, i remember, she almos
over the war in ukraine. a winter storm brings snow and rain to southern california, the likes of which hasn t been seen there in decades. election officials in nigeria have insisted that nobody will be disenfranchised despite delays and technical problems as millions of people vote in the country s most competitive election since military rule ended there more than two decades ago. the race is between two major established parties, and a third candidate, peter obi, who has galvanised the support of young people. nigeria is africa s most populous country and a record number of people nearly 90 million have been eligible to vote. polls were due to close earlier in the day but people who are in queues at polling stations nationwide can still cast their ballot. and in some places, especially in the south of the country, voting has not even started due to severe delays and violent disruptions. here s the chair of the nigerian election commission. we are determined that