it all started with yevgeny prigozhin accusing russian forces of firing on his mercenaries in ukraine. prigozhin says his forces have crossed from ukraine and taken the city of rostov and have seized military facilities in voroneszh which is on the way to moscow as well. there s increased security in moscow with so called anti terror measures introduced. the kremlin has called for prigozhin s arrest with top russian generals telling wagner forces to stand down and the russian president vladimir putin has given a tv address and said russia is facing a betrayal. these pictures have come into us at the bbc. a spokesperson been cited by the ria news agency. there have been some questions as to weather putin was still in the kremlin. a spokesperson says he is working there. we have verified that this is at a town called pavlovsk in the varonezh region north of rostov on the road towards moscow. you can see smoke billowing across the area. we don t know the cause of the smoke. we d
parliament in sri lanka has voted for prime minister ranil wickremesinghe to become the country s new president, despite his unpopularity with the public. he faces the task of leading the country out of its economic collapse, and restoring order. now it is time for empire and me. i m de graft mensah podcaster, presenter and proud british ghanaian. i m going to be leaving behind my dayjob and heading to west africa for the first time since i was nine. the murder of george floyd and the anti racism protests that followed led people to start to question britain s history, as well as its actions abroad when it had an empire. and it led me to want to find out more. i know that ghana used to be part of the british empire, so i want to discover what that meant for the country. i want to learn why britain made ghana part of its empire, how it affected the ghanaian people, and what impact it had on my own family. i ve made the 3,000 mile journey to accra, the capital of ghana, somew
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Trump needs a new fbi director after his sudden sacking Ofjames Comey as head of americas director america pars mac security agency. Lets show you the latter that he sent to mr comey. It is brief and fairly brutal. He says in this letter, you are not able to effectively lead the bureau and he goes on to say, its essential that we find the leadership for the fbi that restores public trust and confidence. There has been a lot of criticism of this move but asjohn sobol now reports, donald trump has defended his decision. This is a fox news alert. Fbi Directorjames Comey has been fired by the president of the United States. The term Breaking News is bandied about with abandon but last night it was justified. At fbi offices the first they knew their director had been fired was when it flashed up on their tv screens. And james comey, who was in los angeles addressing staff, knew nothing about it either until an aide handed him a note. The letter sent by President Trump was brutal. You are he