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distracted international attention, and will now seek, he says, to provoke further conflicts elsewhere. he pointed towards the weakness of the international sanctions regime, which means russia is still able to build and maintain a military industrial complex in pursuit of war. and he points the finger at the draught in ukraine, which is not, he said, currerntly fit for purpose. so how will international partners interpret all of that? we arejoined by yaroslav trofimov, the chief foreign affairs correspondent of the wall streetjournal. and the author of the recently published book our enemies will vanish: the russian invasion and ukraine s war of independence. thank you for being with us again on the programme. so. there has been a lot reported about this in recent weeks. what is the official reason for this decision and what is the real reason? real reason? ella, the official reason is real reason? ella, the official reason is that real reason? ella, the official re ....
those the 2024 presidential ballot. counting has begun ir after those counting has begun in pakistan after a campaign marred by violence. president zelensky fires the chief of the army. a new study suggests erectile dysfunction drugs could also reduce the risk of alzheimer s disease. let s round up the business news of the day. we start with the entertainment giant disney whose share values have climbed by nearly 10% today after better than expected earnings were posted after the bell on wednesday. disney followed up with hand outs for investors in the form of share buy backs and bigger dividends. along with a number of major deals and upcoming events that clearly has markets excited. erin delmore is in new york for us. first of all, those investors will be pretty happy today, won t they? they well and they will be even happier if they check the stock price is right now. what is this news based on? a great earnings report yesterday from disney and from good news for ....
hello from the bbc sport centre. hello i m chetan pathak with your latest sports news we start at afcon the 34th edition of the africa cup of nations has reached the semi final stage with both matches on wednesday. the hosts ivory coast play the democratic republic of congo but before that it s the other heavyweights nigeria. who play south africa. and they ve been given a massive boost with striker victor osimhen declared fit to play who had been a doubt with an abdominal problem. it s a rematch of the 2000 afcon semi final which nigeria won and was the last time south africa reached the last four. this time their coach is hoping they can go one step further: i think for many people it was unexpected. but we did it, and that means that south africa became a good team. it s also more than 20 years ago that south africa played the semifinal, even more that we play the final. that means that we ve got a lot of motivation. meanwhile, ivory coast have never won the co ....
the green prosperity plan has taken something of a battering since then. and yet the labour leader was still insisting in a radio interview on monday that the pledge to spend £28bn a year was desperately needed . and i have been unwavering in relation to the mission, clean power by 2030. and i keep getting challenges from people saying, you are moving the date back. that mission of clean power by 2030, i haven t moved that date back at all, and i am very clear that we need investment to do that, we need to borrow to invest to do that, that is a principle i believe in and am absolutely happy to go out and defend. and of course what we have said as we got closer to the operationalisation of this is, that will have to be ramped up. the money will have to be ramped up. the 28 billion, etc. that was then but this is now and it s been ditched. the 28 million commitment was made to end the 28 million commitment was made to end a the 28 million commitment was made to end a ....
a us drone attack which killed a senior leader of an armed pro iran group. three people were killed in the attack, including a commander of the group that us officials say was behind recent attacks on us bases in iraq and syria. this was the scene in baghdad earlier tonight. angry crowds surrounding the burnt out vehicle hit in the attack chanting america is the biggest devil . our senior international correspondent orla guerin is in baghdad for us tonight she tried to get close to the scene of this attack. this was a high profile strike inside the capital. it happened at 9:30pm local time. there were three distinct explosions. they were audible from our hotel. we reached the scene pretty quickly. an angry crowd had gathered around the charred wreckage of the car which had been hit. now, we know that the american drone strike killed a senior commander of condition kaitab hezbollah a powerful pro iranian militia. us officials have blamed kaitiab hezbollah for the drone at ....